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How are you sleeping at the moment?
by Muhdo Health
Well, your DNA will affect your Sleep.
Getting a good night’s sleep could be proving fairly difficult with everything that is going on in the world at the moment. There could be a whole variety of reasons why when your head does eventually hit that pillow that you cannot seem to drift off peacefully and get a good night’s sleep. Do our genes also dictate how well we sleep?
The short answer is yes. They dictate as to whether you are a morning person or a night owl, the duration of sleep, if your sleep is fragmented and if stress will affect you sleeping well. For instance, stress and sleep can be the perfect chicken and the egg scenario. Having continuous stress will have a negative effect on your sleep quality and having poor quality sleep will increase your stress levels.
Our circadian rhythm is thought to regulate around 15-20% of our genome and is tremendously important to keeping us fit and healthy, as it affects our hormones, eating habits and reduces the chances of us becoming ill. Our diet also has huge connotations for how well we sleep. For instance, the “sleep hormone” melatonin, is responsible for signalling darkness to the body and regulating daily physiological rhythms, which are dramatically affected by retinol (Vitamin A)
Studies have shown high levels of retinol in the mammalian pineal gland and vitamin A deficiency causes a reduction in gene AANAT, which will reduce melatonin levels.
This might also be a problem if you are following a plant based/vegan diet as retinol is just one of many nutrients that you cannot obtain healthy levels without animal-based foods. We can covert a small amount of retinol from beta-carotene, but depending on your genetic variation of gene BCO1, this will affect your ability to convert beta-carotene from plants into retinol effectively.
During our sleep is also when we repair damage to our DNA. One of the ways that this is done is by releasing melatonin, which is inhibited by blue light during the day and hindered when we use our phones, laptops, and tablets at night, and regulates over 500 genes that are involved in repair and antioxidant function. So, the takeaway message is if you want to live a long and fruitful life, then try and get a few early nights in.
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Phoenix Rising
by Dr Paul Clayton
After half a century of extensive (and wildly expensive) research, and vast numbers of clinical trials – ClinicalTrials.gov currently lists 433,955 studies (1) – cancer remains the second-leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease. It is first or second cause in all developed countries, and it’s getting worse; over the last few decades, the incidence of cancer in adults under 50 years of age has steadily increased in those countries (2). We currently experience a 50% and rising lifetime risk (3, 4).
Shuji Ogino is a professor at Harvard Chan School and Harvard Medical School, and a physician-scientist in the Department of Pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (2). “The risk is increasing with each generation,’ says Ogino. ‘People born in 1960 experienced higher cancer risk before they turn 50 than people born in 1950, and we predict that this risk level will continue to climb.”
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Short daytime naps may keep brain healthy as it ages, study says
Taking a short nap during the day may help to protect the brain’s health as it ages, researchers have suggested after finding that the practice appears to be associated with larger brain volume.
While previous research has suggested long naps could be an early symptom of Alzheimer’s disease, other work has revealed that a brief doze can improve people’s ability to learn. Now researchers say they have found evidence to suggest napping may help to protect against brain shrinkage.
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