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Sitting all day increases dementia risk – even if you exercise (washingtonpost.com)
2 points by jcfrei on Sept 28, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Maybe the drug mentioned in the below article could serve as a partial mitigation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37693694



Wouldn't sleeping also cause the same problem? (Lying flat for X hours?)


Deep-stage sleep allows the lymphatic system to remove the brain's waste products, as opposed to what happens when you're awake but sedentary.


Confounders?




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