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Six To Eight Hours of Sleep Best For the Heart, Says Study (theguardian.com)
Research shows sleep deprivation or excessive hours in bed increase risk of coronary artery disease or stroke. From a report: Six to eight hours of sleep a night is most beneficial for the heart, while more or less than that could increase the risk of coronary artery disease or a stroke, researchers have suggested. The study, presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich, indicates sleep deprivation and excessive hours in bed should be avoided for optimum heart health. The study's author, Dr Epameinondas Fountas of the Onassis cardiac surgery centre in Athens, said: "Our findings suggest that too much or too little sleep may be bad for the heart. More research is needed to clarify exactly why, but we do know that sleep influences biological processes like glucose metabolism, blood pressure, and inflammations -- all of which have an impact on cardiovascular disease." Data from more than a million adults from 11 studies was analysed as part of the research. Compared with adults who got six to eight hours of sleep a night, "short sleepers" had an 11% greater risk, while "long sleepers" had 33% increased risk over the next nine years.
If you don't sleep enough, you'll get heart disease. But don't let it keep you awake at night.
Short sleepers and heavy sleepers have lower life expectancy. At least if you are a short sleepers, you actually enjoyed your short time.
What if you sleep standing upright ?
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Maybe the people who sleep more or less have sleep differences as s SYMPTOM of some process that causes artery disease.
Could the risks associated with excessive sleep be caused by other factors? For example, somebody who sleeps excessively likely doesn't have a job. The perpetually unemployed tend to have no discipline, don't exercise, are more likely to drink and smoke, and eat poor diets even though healthier food is cheaper. These factors would obviously lead to a much greater chance of coronary artery disease or a stroke.
of the middle ages? They lacked bright artificial light so they would naturally fall asleep early, not blasting their eyes with 100 watt incandescent or equivalent or computer screens with blue light. Then they'd sleep for about four hours, wake up for a few hours and spend that time praying, reading, helping bring in another brother or sister for their children, keeping watch over the fort, invading the neighbors, etc. Then they'd fall asleep again for another four or so hours.
Natural. Healthy. Refreshing. What happened to it? Are we losing our culture and history?
A normal amount of sleep is good for you. Who could have guessed?
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this checks out with my life experience especially if I do intermittent fasting, I find I have more energy and wake up with just say 6 to 7 hours of sleep.
I know it won't shock anyone but I think it's important to reframe that western scientists study westerners. This means that they study people with poor mental and physical health. I went to rural India and everyone spends 4 hours of sleep max. Ashrams, same, vibrant and beaming with energy, never sick. (it's exhausting to sleep in one of those dormitories because they're always chatting or doing stuff like playing games until 2 am) Turkey, 5 hours, all healthy.
Slashdot wtf is wrong with you!? What's next ? - "Science confirms that thirsty people drink water" ?
More clickbait, half-true headline writing from a disgraceful "journalist." 6 hours of sleep will kill you and doing 30 minutes of cardio at least 3 times per week will do A LOT more for heart health than sleeping ever will. This article is useless, pointless nothing for fat, lazy people.
I thought is was a bottle of wine a day?
Just to be clear folks, 6-8 hours of sleep is good for the person. You don't want your heart sleeping that long.