Low-quality sleep increases glaucoma risk, new study suggests

https://www.sci.news/medicine/low-quality-sleep-glaucoma-risk-11358.html

by WaitWaitWha • 4 years ago

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treeman79• 4 years ago

If you snore badly. Wake up sweaty. Heart racing. Or bad sleep in general. Waking up exhausted.

Get a sleep study. You may have sleep apnea. Which is your body starving for air. A cpap can be a dramatic life changing device.

cochne• 4 years ago

I have a lot of that, unfortunately sleep study (even in lab) didn’t surface anything.

ianai• 4 years ago

Definitely feels like modernity fights quality sleep way too much.

euroderf• 4 years ago

CPAP was too invasive for me. So the therapist prescribed a dental appliance that is nothing more complicated than forcing your lower jaw to jut out a bit. Worked great!

dd36• 4 years ago

Or they have a common root?

jasfi• 4 years ago

Good catch. If they did it would be stress.

xeromal4• 4 years ago

I've always feared I'd have some repercussions for my bad sleep. I suffer from night terrors and sleepwalking. I've regimented myself down to very specific sleep patterns where I turn off my lights, take a shower, and abstain from any phone or screen. I sleep about 7 hours, but if you look at a smartwatch, I end up walking around incessantly about every hour. It's super annoying.

mwint• 4 years ago

Are you unaware of the walking around unless you look at the watch? Just curious, it’s a big ambiguous from the wording.

xeromal4• 4 years ago

So I knew I slept walk because I would wake up probably a few times a month just standing in a doorway or something. But after monitoring my watch, I realized I pretty much do it every night because it tracks me as walking. Sometimes I don't walk, but I am awake according to its motion sensors and my heart rate

hamasho2• 4 years ago

I know low-quality sleep is the cause of a lot of diseases and bad daytime conditions, and still, it's difficult to have high-quality sleep.

It takes a long time to fall asleep when I go to bed, and I'm so bored I can't stop browsing social media, it always ends up with 2~5 hours!

Recently I bought a Kitchen Safe (time locking container) to force me to stop using my phone. And it works! I can't do anything other than sleep. Still, it takes a lot of time to fall asleep, but if I continue this, I believe I can become a good sleeper! (It helps to reduce phone time in general, I recommend it to anyone.)

Tempest19812• 4 years ago

Try listening to a non-exciting podcast, played at 75% speed. It works for me. Lex Fridman's voice/tempo is perfect. The Overcast app can be set to turn off after N minutes.

beermonster• 4 years ago

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker audiobook makes me fall asleep by chapter 2.

rubyskills• 4 years ago

You should check out Andrew Huberman's videos about sleep on YouTube.

I found that strategies to get my core body temperature down towards the evening, combined with morning light exposure and exercising daily have made a huge difference for me. I'm tired at night and just want to go to sleep. I have a lot more tips, but most of it you can get from Huberman.

hamasho2• 4 years ago

Thanks, I'll check them! Those self-improve materials don't always work for me, but sometimes I can find some good points that resonate with my lifestyle. I hope to find them in his videos.

RandomWorker• 4 years ago

Whelp, kids are worth it though ;)

Trouble_0072• 4 years ago

FYI: Association of sleep behaviour and pattern with the risk of glaucoma: a prospective cohort study in the UK Biobank : https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/11/e063676

thunkshift1• 4 years ago

How does one measure sleep quality?

Low-quality sleep increases glaucoma risk, new study suggests

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