{"id":34918,"date":"2022-05-01T13:27:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=34918"},"modified":"2022-05-01T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T13:27:19","slug":"why-7-hours-of-sleep-not-8-is-the-perfect-amount-in-middle-age-scientists-warn-any-more-or-less-raises-risk-of-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/01\/why-7-hours-of-sleep-not-8-is-the-perfect-amount-in-middle-age-scientists-warn-any-more-or-less-raises-risk-of-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 7 HOURS of sleep &#8211; not 8 &#8211; is the perfect amount in middle age: Scientists warn any more or less raises risk of dementia"},"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-31306\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dementia-213x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dementia-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dementia-500x706.png 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dementia-360x508.png 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dementia.png 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eight hours is no longer the ideal duration of sleep each night in middle age, according to science.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-10763407\/Scientists-warn-seven-hours-sleep-leave-hurtling-dementia.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>Eight hours is no longer the ideal duration of sleep each night in middle age, according to science.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34918","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\/08\/dementia.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34918","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=34918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34919,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34918\/revisions\/34919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}