How Ambien Causes Brain Damage

Jan 15, 2025

As you may know from my research and books, many concerns have been elaborated on the use of sleeping pills to treat insomnia. In addition to obvious issues of dependency and addiction, there has always been a very basic problem described regarding the impact of sleep aids on sleep architecture, specifically, how might these drugs affect deep sleep (delta aka NREM Stage 3)?

Now research from the original group that discovered the glymphatic system reveals how Ambien retards the operations of our natural “brain-washing” system. The researchers hypothesize whether this deleterious impact could in fact prove to be a risk factor for dementia.

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