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·April 25, 2024·4 min read

Creatine’s Cognitive Boost for Sleep-Deprived People

A high dose of creatine can temporarily boost cognitive abilities impaired by sleep deprivation. Conducted with 15 participants who stayed awake overnight, the study showed significant improvements in processing capacity and short-term memory three hours post-supplementation.

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·March 28, 2024·4 min read

Sleeplessness Makes You Feel Up To Ten Years Older

Researchers unveiled a link between sleep quality and subjective age, demonstrating that insufficient sleep can make individuals feel significantly older. Through two studies involving over 600 participants, they found that each night of inadequate sleep contributed to feeling 0.23 years older, with sleep restriction causing participants to feel on average 4.4 years older.

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·March 11, 2024·5 min read

Blood Test Detects 24-Hour of Sleep Deprivation

Researchers developed a blood test capable of detecting 24-hour sleep deprivation with high accuracy, offering promising applications for enhancing safety in various contexts. The test, which combines specific markers in the blood, was shown to identify individuals who had been awake for more than 24 hours with up to 99.2% accuracy under laboratory conditions.

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·December 21, 2023·5 min read

Sleep Deprivation’s Toll on Emotions

Researchers examined over fifty years of research to highlight the profound impact of sleep loss on emotional well-being. Analyzing data from 154 studies with 5,715 participants, the research team found that sleep deprivation leads to a decrease in positive emotions and an increase in anxiety symptoms.

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·November 25, 2023·7 min read

Exercise Boosts Brain Power Amidst Sleep Deprivation

New research reveals that moderate exercise improves cognitive performance (CP) even under conditions of sleep deprivation and low oxygen levels. The study involved two experiments with 24 participants in total, examining the effects of partial and total sleep deprivation, as well as hypoxia, on CP.

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·September 6, 2023·4 min read

Sleep Deprivation Depletes a Key Protective Protein in Brain

Sleep deprivation doesn't just leave you tired—it harms the brain and elevates the risk for diseases like Alzheimer’s. Researchers delving into how this occurs have made a breakthrough by identifying a protein, pleiotrophin (PTN), which drops in sleep-deprived mice.

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·April 15, 2023·4 min read

Probiotic Supplementation Reduces Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Caused by Chronic Sleep Loss

Probiotics have recently attracted increasing interest for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Researchers tested the ability of probiotics to contrast oxidative stress and inflammation induced by sleep loss. Findings concluded that probiotic supplementation could be a positive strategy to counteract oxidative stress and inflammation promoted by sleep loss.

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·April 11, 2023·11 min read

Untangling the Mystery of Sleep to Reveal an Unexpected Link Between the Brain and Gut

Preventing oxidation in the gut could counteract the effects of sleep loss, a new study reports.

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·April 6, 2023·2 min read

Sleep Disturbances Prevalent in Long COVID

41% of Long-COVID patients suffer from moderate-to-severe sleep disruptions, a new study reports.

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·February 8, 2023·3 min read

How Sleep Deprivation Affects Cognitive Performance

Sleep deprivation doesn't just alter brain activity, it also changes the connection between neurons. Both changes have a significant effect on working memory and cognitive performance.