Wednesday, July 8, 2015

how much sleep


Modern medicine is also changing its views on the perfect amount of sleep, as emerging science validates new findings and retracts old ones regularly. Several studies, one surveying more than one million adults, and another surveying women only, found that people who live the longest reported sleeping for six to seven hours nightly.
Studies consistently show that sleeping more than eight hours per day has been associated with increased risk of dying…

On the other side, studies suggest a correlation between lower sleep hours and reduced morbidity only when those who wake after less sleep wake naturally, rather than those who use an alarm or are chronically sleep-deprived...
Ayurveda tells us to rest well, then lift ourselves out from the suppressed state of too much sleep and find reasons to live, either family, love, career, or chasing your dreams.

~ EveryDay Ayurveda, 2015, Chapter 40, Getting to Bed on Time

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