More Than This Many Hours of Sleep Is Linked to Early Death, Scientists Find
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47500839
Always had a feeling this was true: Sleep the right amount, live longer, sleep the wrong amount, age faster!
"...scientists narrowed down a “sweet spot” of between 6.4 and 7.8 hours of sleep per night. Sleep durations that fall too much on either side of that, the study found, were associated with accelerated aging." (For some it's 4, for some 9 though)
Just thought I would share this, as it seems important to all of us who don't love aging ❤️
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Not enough sleep - death
Too much sleep - death
Just the right amount of sleep - believe it or not also death.
Hmm, wouldn't it be more efficient to only sleep once every 3 days and just sleep for 21 hours? I'll try it and let you know.
Could you ask the hatman to give me back my sanity when you see him?
Thanks.
Ah, a fellow traveller on the coffee and cocaine diet, I see. I'm just heading to bed, I'll be awake again in June.
If you sleep less than that on weekdays and more on weekends, does it average out?
Kinda. You do accumulate sleep debt.
Nope. Google “sleep camel”
Normie numbers. All my homies follow a strict sleep diet of 3 to 4h during the week and the classical 12h to 14h during the weekend. Probably averages out to early death too 😎
So much for beauty sleep...
When I think of people I know that actually sleep more than 8 hours, they're really overweight. Like you can hear them snoring all throughout the day
That...sounds like they're not actually sleeping those hours.
I sleep 9 hours and my BMI is so critically underweight it tells me to go visit doctors.