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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20182054/#:~:text=In%20the%2... . this says coffee is associated with a reduced risk of dementia which is pretty much what I've read over and over again
Thank you! I was freaking out about my beloved coffee addiction.
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He's leaning hard into the stimulants...
People with amphetamine habits typically look very skinny and unhealthy because amphetamines suppress appetite. Same for cocaine, ritalin and all other dopaminergic stimulants. They can also have facial scabs because of obsessive picking/scratching, and tend to be very twitchy and hyper. He doesn't come off that way at all during interviews. My personal experience leads me to believe that there is no way Elon Musk co…
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Coffee causing dementia is a pretty shocking claim that I haven't heard previously. Do you have more reading on this?
I've always wondered if coffee studies are just something they give bored grad students to do. I've heard about what seems like hundreds of them in my lifetime and they contradict each other in cycles over long stretches of time.
Many forms of dementia destroy dopaminergic neurons, and this process begins much earlier than symptoms of dementia itself manifest. From what I’ve gathered from reading studies across the years, less dopaminergic capacity seems to be associated with less restful sleep. The conclusions of this study seem to have it backwards. It’s not lack of sleep that causes dementia, it’s early dementia that causes insomnia. Edit:…
> it’s early dementia that causes insomnia > If they drink too much coffee, they might accidentally poison themselves into dementia Oh crap
Many forms of dementia destroy dopaminergic neurons, and this process begins much earlier than symptoms of dementia itself manifest. From what I’ve gathered from reading studies across the years, less dopaminergic capacity seems to be associated with less restful sleep. The conclusions of this study seem to have it backwards. It’s not lack of sleep that causes dementia, it’s early dementia that causes insomnia. Edit:…
The study makes it clear that it's an association. It never says it's an assertion of directional causality.
More accurately, middle aged people who get less than 6 hours of sleep a night are 30% more likely to get dementia. I'd expect that people who get less than 6 hours of sleep are also more stressed and less health concious though.
That's not more accurately at all; you're still insinuating a causal relationship. "More accurately, people with yellow-stained fingertips are more likely to get lung cancer." The actual study's own title puts it more accurately: "Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia"
I interpret "30% more likely" as the same as "associated with a 30% increase," which is what the article claims.
Many forms of dementia destroy dopaminergic neurons, and this process begins much earlier than symptoms of dementia itself manifest. From what I’ve gathered from reading studies across the years, less dopaminergic capacity seems to be associated with less restful sleep. The conclusions of this study seem to have it backwards. It’s not lack of sleep that causes dementia, it’s early dementia that causes insomnia. Edit:…
Unless it's an emergency, I've ALWAYS prioritized sleep. It's just too important for health regardless of these latest findings. I'd call in to work if I didn't get a full nights rest in the past, it's not worth feeling like shit for the rest of the day. The culture of glamorizing working longer and harder till early hours of the mornings on zero sleep, has always been nonsense. Musk is notorious for bragging about t…
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/08/415261/after-10-year-searc...
Unless it's an emergency, I've ALWAYS prioritized sleep. It's just too important for health regardless of these latest findings. I'd call in to work if I didn't get a full nights rest in the past, it's not worth feeling like shit for the rest of the day. The culture of glamorizing working longer and harder till early hours of the mornings on zero sleep, has always been nonsense. Musk is notorious for bragging about t…
Well, many people don't sleep enough because they cannot. Insomnia is common in midlife.