{"id":235940,"date":"2026-04-26T06:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-reveal-the-optimal-amount-of-sleep-to-lower-dementia-risk"},"modified":"2026-04-26T06:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:06:38","slug":"scientists-reveal-the-optimal-amount-of-sleep-to-lower-dementia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-reveal-the-optimal-amount-of-sleep-to-lower-dementia-risk","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Reveal The Optimal Amount of Sleep to Lower Dementia Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reveal-the-optimal-amount-of-sleep-to-lower-dementia-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lack of good quality sleep has long been linked to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/better-sleep-could-help-your-brain-flush-out-dementia-linked-toxins\">increased risk<\/a> of developing dementia, but new research goes further \u2013 giving us an optimal amount of overnight slumber to minimize <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/an-early-warning-sign-of-dementia-risk-may-be-keeping-you-up-at-night\">dementia risk<\/a> later in life.<\/p>\n<p>Using data gathered and pooled from 69 previous studies, a team from York University in Canada ran a statistical analysis to look for associations with dementia for three different factors: physical activity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/sitting-down-is-so-bad-for-you-even-sleeping-is-better\">time spent sitting<\/a>, and sleep duration.<\/p>\n<p>These are all variables we can control ourselves, up to a point, and the number crunching showed that between 7 and 8 hours of slumber each night was the sweet spot when it came to minimizing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/major-study-finds-15-factors-linked-to-early-dementia-risk\">dementia risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lack of good quality sleep has long been linked to an increased risk of developing dementia, but new research goes further \u2013 giving us an optimal amount of overnight slumber to minimize dementia risk later in life. Using data gathered and pooled from 69 previous studies, a team from York University in Canada ran [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235940","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}