Study: Sleep pills can protect you from memory disease

Quality sleep is now considered necessary for proper body function, for among other things it contributes to the proper functioning of the heart and brain. However, if you experience sleep disorders at some point and need to take sleeping pills, according to the latest research data, your memory will thank you.

According to a new study published in Annals of Neurology, receiving treatment to combat insomnia can prevent the development of Alzheimer's disease later in life.

In particular, researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine who conducted the study concluded that the elderly who received hypnotic preparations before sleeping reduced the levels of two key proteins associated with the beginning of Alzheimer's disease.