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Poor sleep can age your brain by a year, study shows

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

Okay, so this is interesting.

0:04.2

Poor sleep can age your brain by a year.

0:08.9

If that's the case, I'm a hundred years old.

0:12.5

It's Kendall a Casey's showing, Rob.

0:14.0

That's Casey.

0:14.8

So study finds has this article that I guess some group in Sweden, it's always Sweden, right, did some sort of study.

0:24.3

They studied brain scans and sleep patterns of more than 27,000 middle age and older adults in the UK.

0:34.5

And what they found is the people who had poor sleep habits had brains that looked older

0:39.8

than their actual age.

0:42.0

Mm-hmm.

0:43.2

Moderately poor sleepers had brains about seven months older on average.

0:48.4

So again, I'm like a rotisserie chicken.

0:51.2

And I don't know.

0:52.2

I was just flopping around.

0:58.4

So if that's the case, y yikes I'm in for some trouble okay how many hours a night do you do I get sleep or do I try yeah how much do you actually think

1:06.0

you sleep in a night probably four to five hours total Total? Yeah. Of actual sleep. I mean, I try to get at least six or seven. No, no, no, no. Does that count your, I know you cheat in the middle of the day and take a nap? I do. You do. Do you count that as your total? I get better sleep during the day than I do at night. Well, that's what I'm asking you. I'm sure one is because of the other.

1:46.1

But that's what I'm asking you is when you say four to five hours, are you counting your nap or you get four to five hours and my nap? No, the four to five is just at night. Right. So collectively, how much would you say you sleep during the day? During the day when a nap or total six? The whole day, Casey, in a 24-hour period.

1:47.5

How much would you say you sleep?

1:47.6

Probably six. sleep during the day. During the day when I nap or total? The whole day, Casey, in a 24-hour period, how much would you say you sleep?

1:49.0

Probably six, six and a half.

1:49.3

Okay.

1:52.8

I would guess that's in the middle range, because don't they say you're supposed to get eight hours of sleep total?

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