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Moderately less sleep can preserve longevity

"Window of the World" quoted foreign reports as saying that Kate Fox only needs to take a nap for one to an hour and a half at a time to feel fully awake. And most nights, she only gets 5 hours of sleep. For most of us, a lack of sleep the night before means sleepiness and anxiety the next day, but Kate said she has adapted to this sleeping habit because it gives her time to read a lot of books. So should everyone follow Kate's lead? There are two diametrically opposed views. One is that people generally lack sleep, so their physical and mental health is being damaged to varying degrees. The probability of high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity has greatly increased; the other is that only a very small number of adults People need at least 8 hours of sleep, and they are always worried that lack of sleep will lead to habitual insomnia.

Reassuringly, a survey released early last year showed that people actually don’t need as much sleep as we think, and that too much sleep can actually be harmful to our health. It is the original culprit that causes insomnia. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the American Cancer Society surveyed the sleep habits of more than 1 million Americans over the past six years. They found that people who generally slept 6 to 7 hours a night (which is how most people sleep) lived longer than people who slept at least 8 hours a night. Research shows that those who sleep the longest are up to 15% more likely to die than others, and even those who sleep for just five hours are more likely to die than those who sleep eight hours, which is the usual health standard. People want to live longer. In addition, most people think that women are more sleepy, but survey results show that women live longer than men with the same amount of sleep. All in all, whether you are a man or a woman, there is an unchanging conclusion: the longer you sleep, the greater the chance of death.

Trying to use drugs to prolong sleep is particularly dangerous. People who claim to suffer from insomnia tend to live as long as healthy people, while people who regularly take sleeping pills have a chance of premature death as high as 25%. It can be seen that taking sleeping pills to extend sleep time is not good for human health. benefit.

Of course, true sleep deprivation does have adverse effects on the human immune system. Industrial accidents such as nuclear leaks and crude oil leaks due to excessive fatigue of operators have long sounded the alarm. However, more and more experts engaged in research on sleep problems believe that the public's excessive attention to lack of sleep is a double-edged sword, with both pros and cons.

Even if you do feel that you need more sleep, the latest advice on improving sleep quality is to keep yourself awake as much as possible by driving away drowsiness. This opinion seems absurd to the extreme, but if you no longer force yourself to fall asleep, but try to keep yourself awake and no longer worry about lack of sleep all day long, you will find that the sleep system controlled by the brain is fully capable of automatically Adjust to suit your sleeping situation.