{"id":230255,"date":"2026-01-31T17:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-common-sleeping-pill-may-reduce-buildup-of-alzheimers-proteins-study-reveals"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:04:20","slug":"a-common-sleeping-pill-may-reduce-buildup-of-alzheimers-proteins-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-common-sleeping-pill-may-reduce-buildup-of-alzheimers-proteins-study-reveals","title":{"rendered":"A Common Sleeping Pill May Reduce Buildup of Alzheimer\u2019s Proteins, Study Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-common-sleeping-pill-may-reduce-buildup-of-alzheimers-proteins-study-reveals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still so much we don\u2019t know about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one that researchers are exploring with gusto.<\/p>\n<p>A study published in 2023 found that using sleeping pills to get some shut-eye could reduce the buildup of toxic clumps of proteins in fluid that washes the brain clean every night.<\/p>\n<p>People who took <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suvorexant\">suvorexant<\/a>, a common treatment for insomnia, for two nights at a sleep clinic experienced a slight drop in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amyloid_beta\">amyloid-beta<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tau_protein\">tau<\/a>, two proteins that pile up in Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s still so much we don\u2019t know about Alzheimer\u2019s disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one that researchers are exploring with gusto. A study published in 2023 found that using sleeping pills to get some shut-eye could reduce the buildup of toxic clumps of proteins in fluid that washes the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}