Health, Longevity & Biohacking
Sleep Regularity Beats Quantity in Predicting All-Cause Mortality Risk
Diary of a CEO
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"Those people who were most regular, versus least regular, they compared the extremes of these two, those people who were most regular had a 49% relative decrease in all-cause mortality. So they were 49% less likely to prematurely die than those people who were least likely to die. They had a 39% cancer mortality risk reduction, great. They had a 57% cardiometabolic, disease risk reduction."
Sleep scientist Matt Walker revealed findings from a 60,000-person UK Biobank study showing that sleep regularity (going to bed and waking within a 30-minute window) is a more powerful predictor of mortality than sleep quantity. When both factors were compared in statistical analysis, regularity won out by a significant margin. This challenges the conventional wisdom that prioritizes hours of sleep above all other factors.
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