Dash For Power

Eight Hours Sleep nightly seems perfect for us: more or less is deadly.

• We have discussed how evidence shows that teens children and adults are sleep deprived these days, causing them to not retain the positive memories the final, eighth hour of sleep can give us. But recent research confirms that’s it. Then it`s time to get up.

• In a 22 year year study of more than 21,000 adults, Finnish researchers found that participants who habitually slept less than seven hours or more than eight hours were more likely to die during the study period.

• The findings, in the journal Sleep, add to evidence linking sleep habits to overall health. While it’s not fully clear why both “long sleepers`and `short sleepers`had a higher death risk, the reasons are likely diverse, the study`s lead author to Reuters Health. Ì think there are many subgroups in both short and long sleepers and the reasons a different in them“, said Dr. Christer Hublin of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.

• Many factors may come into this, including insomnia, those who simply need more or less sleep, depression, but so far the only clear notice is that those who sleep outside of that seemingly perfect eight hours a night put themselves at jeopardy of a shortened life. More on this as new developes.

• But if I don`t get to bed soon I am not going to get my 8 hours sleep, and you know how much a bear I am in the morning when, like Goldilocks, my sleep wasn`t juuuust right. Not 7 hours, not 9 hours. 8 hours. Perfect.

Good night. Derek Eight Hours Dashwood

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