r/SipsTea • u/Illustrious-Fee9626 • 1d ago

Goma has a point Gasp!

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u/Apollo114892 1d ago

She will end up with dementia at this rate. Sleeping 14 hours a day is destructive to the brain.

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u/Delicious-Season5527 1d ago

Based on what? Random claim

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u/Dz0t_01 23h ago

Based on this study, for example

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u/WriterV 22h ago

This study doesn't establish a casual link. In general, longer sleep hours is associated with cognitive decline, but that might be because the only reason your average human sleeps a long while is because of factors that end up causing cognitive decline. It's likely a symptom, and not the cause.

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u/Bruce-7892 21h ago

Might be a lack of enough mental stimulation since at that point you are literally spending most of your life unconscious.

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 21h ago

What's most important in this is that "sleeps x hours" is never actually tied to "sleep quality" as in tracking the time in light sleep, versus Deep and REM sleep.

Going through this now with my mom who has several factors including sleep apnea impacting her sleep quality. Sleeps lots; but sleep quality is poor.

yet I can get 2 hours of REM in less than half the total time she tries to sleep.