97% of people with this sleep issue go on to develop dementia or Parkinson’s Disease.
The way we sleep can provide subtle hints about our health. Struggling to breathe while you sleep could be sleep apnoea, caused by smoking, or excess weight.
But there’s another, under-the-radar sleep condition that can predict the likeliness of you developing more serious diseases that affect the brain, such as dementia and Parkinson’s.RBD, or REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder, is a sleep problem where you physically act out part of your dreams while you sleep.
A bit like sleepwalking, movements like thrashing your arms around or kicking your legs are symptoms of RBD, which is said to affect around 1% of the population. There are different types of RBD. The first is probably the most dangerous – isolated, or idiopathic, RBD.believe that it most often leads to degenerative diseases such as the ones we mentioned above.
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