Sleeping less than 5 hours or more than 9 hours a day can shorten your life expectancy, study says

A study published in the Journal of Sleep Research, a scientific publication about research in the area of ​​sleep, sought to verify to what extent the time we spend sleeping affects our life expectancy. Well, common sense indicates that sleep time affects health. And the aforementioned research proved this, showing that people who sleep less than 6 hours a day have problems completing basic tasks.

the team of awesome.club read this research and found that, in fact, the fewer hours we sleep during the week, the greater the consequences on the level of mortality. But it also found that this lack of sleep can be compensated for on weekends.

This study, which took 13 years to complete, aimed to assess the link between sleep duration during the week and on weekends and its relationship with people’s mortality. In total, 43,880 individuals took part in this research. Questions such as, for example, how many hours of sleep during the night during the week and on weekends were asked, with the aim of obtaining more personal answers, which resulted in an average of 5 to 9 hours.

The research concluded that people under 65 years old who sleep less than 5 hours on weekends have a 52% higher mortality rate. But other days of the week were also evaluated, which resulted in a 65% higher mortality rate compared to those people who slept 6 to 7 hours. It should be noted that, as the study says, sleeping too much is also not healthy.

In short, too little or too much sleep will also weigh against life expectancy in the case of persons under 65 years of age. However, it’s okay if this “sleeping too much” is a way to make up for days when you’ve slept less than five hours.

What did you think of the results of this study? Will you change your sleep routine after reading this information? Tell us in the comments.