Mayo Clinic just dropped a study that should terrify anyone who can't sleep.
Chronic insomnia raises your risk of dementia by 40%.
And it ages your brain by 3.5 years.
Most people are blaming the wrong thing -
Here's what actually fixes it 🧵
The study tracked 2,750 cognitively healthy adults for nearly 6 years.
The lead researcher: Dr. Diego Carvalho, Mayo Clinic, sleep medicine specialist.
Published in Neurology - the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
This is rock-solid peer-reviewed science.
Here's what they found:
- 40% higher dementia/cognitive impairment risk
- Brain aging equivalent to being 3.5 years older
- MORE amyloid plaque buildup (the hallmark of Alzheimer's)
- MORE white matter damage (vascular brain aging)