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More Than This Many Hours of Sleep Is Linked to Early Death, Scientists Find (futurism.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/health@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 19 points 4 months ago*

Wow this must be the most clickbait title I've ever seen. Less than 6.4, more than 7.8 is associated with faster aging. Saved you a click.

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    [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I think this is another case of correlation vs. causation. If you're sleeping too little or too much, I'd say it can correlate with a metric fuck ton of other health issues ("metric fuck ton" being an industry term).

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Yep, like how people who drink a lot of diet soda have higher rates of heart issues, which gets interpreted as "diet soda leads to heart issues" instead of "weight issues lead to heart issues, people who have weight issues drink more diet soda."

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