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Sleeping In On The Weekend: Can Changing Your Alarm-Clock For Two Days Change Your Life, Or Ruin It?

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Sleeping In On The Weekend: Can Changing Your Alarm-Clock For Two Days Change Your Life, Or Ruin It?
sleep in on weekends grey cat asleep on sheets

Weekend Sleep, Does A Few Extra Hours Actually Do Anything?:

Cats can teach us many things. Most especially, the value of Sleep.

As Science tries to become as wise as cats, it too is discovering the extreme value of getting a good night’s sleep. And all the problems from not getting one.

Whether you’re trying to solve the Night Owl / Standard Work Day conundrum with Sara Mednick’s recommended naps, or fixing your other weekly sins.

Researchers in Sweden took the idea of a Daily nap and ran with it to try fixing the most-serious problems from sleep-debt, and the answers are cautiously-surprising…

 
So Here Is The Problem, Sleep Debt Hurts:
There are all kinds of problems associated with not getting enough sleep.

These are starting to look like a minimum set of:
1) Obesity and Reduced Insulin Sensitivity
2) Slower Metabolism
3) Immune Problems
4) Increased Inflammation
5) Increased Chance of Colds & Flu
6) Lost Productivity
7) Increased Stress
8) Lower Work & Education Achievement
9) Reduced Creativity, Cognitive Function, Decision-Making, and Memory
10) Greater Risk For Anxiety & Depression
11) Greater Chance of Alzheimer’s & Dementia
and the big one:
12) Shorter Lifespan

 
And Shorter Lifespan Was The Focus Of This Study:
Over the course of about 13 years and over 43,000 subjects the role of sleep and early-mortality was studied.

What they found was that for people under 65, those who got about 7 hours a night were in pretty good shape.

-But for those that got around 5 hours or less a night, the risk of early death was increased by 52%!

Even the people who slept more than 8 hours a night had an increased risk of 25%!

All of this is a concern for Night Owls, because they can’t really change their body-clocks and get the least+worst sleep of all, and the mortality statistics show it.

 
Short, Bad Sleep = Early Grave:
Ok, so if bad sleep is going to put you in an early grave, then what can you do?

Well, our pal Sara Mednick The Queen of Sleep, would tell you to Take a Nap

And that’s where things get interesting.

Because there is a 2nd part to the Swedish research.

If you read the post about Sara’s work, you would think that you have to take a 60-minute nap 1x a day.

But the Swedes found something different!!!
 

Weekend Sleep Ins, Can You Use Saturdays To Stock-Up?:

Who knows if it’s a magic-bullet, but the researchers found out something very interesting about the weekend.

People who Slept-In On The Weekends had a lower early-mortality rate.

That rate was even the same as the people who get the best sleep of all.

Not only that but more-specifically,

The people who spent 5 days of the week only getting 5 hours or less,

-Who then slept-in on the weekends,

Had the same early-death risk as average people getting the best sleep.

 
Not A Guarantee, Yet:
Now even the head researcher was quick to point-out that this is a Correlation only (as you hear a lot in studies) and not a guarantee.

And if you read the other articles on sleep, you’ll see that especially when it comes to the damage sleep-debt can do,

It seems unlikely an extra 2 or 4 hours on the weekends can fix it,

But for now and especially if you’re a night-owl, as they are most at-risk for early mortality,

=If you’re not getting afternoon-naps at least a few times a week,

There might be a small chance that sleeping in on weekends just might spare you all kinds of health or mental-problems, and perhaps even save your life!


Photo Credits: “cat 4”, by Menno Groenmen


Links:
• Source: The Guardian
• More Coverage: NSF-How Much Sleep Do We Need?
• Source Study: J.SleepRsrch. – Sleep duration and mortality – Does weekend sleep matter?

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