{"id":31395,"date":"2021-09-01T06:48:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T06:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=31395"},"modified":"2021-09-01T06:48:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T06:48:41","slug":"seven-to-eight-hours-sleep-is-the-sweet-spot-and-any-less-may-trigger-a-plaque-build-up-in-the-brain-but-too-much-rest-in-old-age-could-make-you-slow-and-forgetful-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/01\/seven-to-eight-hours-sleep-is-the-sweet-spot-and-any-less-may-trigger-a-plaque-build-up-in-the-brain-but-too-much-rest-in-old-age-could-make-you-slow-and-forgetful-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven to eight hours sleep is the sweet spot and any less may trigger a plaque build-up in the brain \u2014 but too MUCH rest in old age could make you slow and forgetful, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27581\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sleeping-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sleeping-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sleeping-770x385.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sleeping-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sleeping-500x250.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sleeping-360x180.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sleeping.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Getting between seven and eight hours of sleep each night in old age is the sweet spot for keeping your brain healthy, another study has found. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-9942705\/Finding-sleep-sweet-spot-help-protect-brain.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Getting between seven and eight hours of sleep each night in old age is the sweet spot for keeping your brain healthy,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sleeping.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31396,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31395\/revisions\/31396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}