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.

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).

Not enough sleep - death

Too much sleep - death

Just the right amount of sleep - believe it or not also death.

Hmm, wouldn't it be more efficient to only sleep once every 3 days and just sleep for 21 hours? I'll try it and let you know.

scientists narrowed down a “sweet spot” of between 6.4 and 7.8 hours of sleep per night

If you sleep less than that on weekdays and more on weekends, does it average out?

Normie numbers. All my homies follow a strict sleep diet of 3 to 4h during the week and the classical 12h to 14h during the weekend. Probably averages out to early death too 😎

So much for beauty sleep...

When I think of people I know that actually sleep more than 8 hours, they're really overweight. Like you can hear them snoring all throughout the day

My god ban this spammer

tldr:

In a study published in the journal Nature, 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.

“I would treat this as guidance,” Wen told WaPo. “The key point is consistent sleep time, around 6 to 8 hours per day. We know that’s going to do good for your overall health.”

"We thought this young guy had been sleeping for the past 36 hours but it turns out he was dead"

Headline: "more than this many hours of sleep is linked to early death"

Jesus that's one of the worst click bait titles I've ever seen.

Shit article

7.8 hours

There are limitations to the study. The UK Biobank data set skews mostly toward people of White European ancestry. And the researchers say there’s more of a direct link with the effect of short sleep, because they can’t rule out that a worse biological aging clock, or essentially poorer health, could be partially causing longer sleep instead of vice versa, as when someone who’s sick or depressed may need to sleep longer than someone who’s healthy.

Limitations. 🙄 50% of the time they're 100% right.

Power naps are the new cigarettes.