“…Observational studies have shown that lifestyle-related risk factors, like alcohol consumption, smoking, diabetes, hypertension, cerebrovascular disease, stress, anxiety, depression, and sleep-wake dysfunction are statistical contributors to the emergence and severity of AD-type dementia. 168,169,177,178 NSS integrity is tightly linked to many of these risk factors, including sleep-wake dysfunction, [179][180][181][182] stress, [183][184][185] depression, 186,187 drug abuse, 188,189 eating disorder, 190 and diabetes. 191,192 Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that positive lifestyle changes may galvanize NSS resilience to AD.…”