Aging and sleep

Sleep is critical to health in many ways, it makes the body repair itself and is crucial to metabolic/cognitive/cardiovascular health as well as other aspects. Unfortunately, even if one takes care of oneself with the best practices as of today, the quality of sleep becomes worse with increasing age.

The causes of the poor sleep is in part due to the degradation of the circadian system in the body, a pivotal but relatively understudied area of aging.

In the brain, The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) controls sleep patterns and as aging damage accumulates within, it becomes increasingly erratic giving misaligned input to the circadian system affecting all cells in the human body.

This gives rise to poor sleep with lowered oscillatory amplitudes in older people, increased risk of cancer and exacerbates general aging damage across the body.

What can be done for this? How do we get the biotech industry to develop cures for this issue? I discuss this in this peer-reviewed publication that I wrote where I named it a disease, Circadian Clock Neuronal Senile Atrophy Syndrome (CIRCLONSA): Aging of the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus, CIRCLONSA Syndrome, Implications for Regenerative Medicine and Restoration of the Master Body Clock - PubMed (nih.gov)

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