Better Sleep, Better Health: a New Study Shows Getting More REM Sleep is Linked to Lower Risk of 83 Different Diseases

A 95,000-person shows getting more REM sleep lowers the risk of dozens of diseases. So does getting more deep sleep.

EXPERT OPINION BY JEFF HADEN @JEFF_HADEN

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Research shows how many hours of sleep you get each night is important:

A study presented at the Nutrition 2023 conference found that people who sleep between seven and nine hours a night, with no long periods of wakefulness, reduce their rate of death from any cause by 18 percent. 

A 2018 study published in Sleep found that people who sleep for five to six hours are 19 percent less........

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