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SLEEP + DEATH: According to new research optimal sleep helps you live longer – lowering mortality risk by almost 40 percent. As investigator Harvard investigator Joon Chung put it: "if sleep were an eight-hour pill, it would be beneficial to take the full dose at regular times consistently.” Researchers pulled data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Sleep Study, tracking 1,759 adults for seven years. According to seven days of measurements gathered by a wrist actigraph (an instrument that measures light and activity), the sleepers were divided into two groups a: "regular-optimal" or "irregular-insufficient". During a seven-year followup period, 176 people died. After adjustments, the regular-optimal group had a 39 percent lower mortality risk than the irregular-insufficient group. The research abstract was published in the journal Sleep.

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