Schlaf hängt mit langsamerem Altern zusammen: Große Studie ermittelt die richtige Menge – Die gesundheitlichen Ergebnisse waren bei Menschen besser, die zwischen etwa 6 und 8 Stunden am Tag schliefen.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01506-8
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Sleep linked to slower ageing: huge study pinpoints the right amount
Health outcomes were better in people who slept between about six and eight hours a day.
A sweeping analysis of sleep duration and signs of ageing in half a million adults has pinpointed a sweet spot — about six to eight hours of sleep each day — that is linked to a lower risk of early death and disease.
Getting either more or less sleep than that was associated with accelerated ageing, which was measured by nearly two dozen different biological ageing ‘clocks’ that aim to assess ageing’s impact on the body.
The results, published in Nature on 13 May, do not mean that six to eight hours is the optimum amount of sleep for every person, nor do they prove that achieving that ‘Goldilocks’ range of sleep each day directly improves health or slows ageing. But the study does provide one of the most comprehensive snapshots of the interplay between sleep and ageing throughout the body.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10524-5
What about people who sleep longer?
But what’s linked with sleep? The problem with life is that it’s a catch 22. Those that are healthy will be healthy and have the luxury of doing healthy things. Those that are unhealthy will do unhealthy things such as not get enough sleep and it’s a downward spiral.
So people actually have kinda regular sleeping patterns ? Thought it was a myth. I feel older already
Great. For years now I wake up after at most 5 hours sleep. Doesn’t matter what time I go to bed. I wake up and can’t fall back asleep again. Sucks balls.
6-8 hours sounds kinda perfect tbh (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)
We used to sleep in two phases per night and they took it from us.
People went to bed earlier and adults would be up around midnight again. Some people to tend the fire, some to have time alone with their spouse, some to write poetry and interpret dreams.
Monophasic sleep of 6-8 hours is a forced compromise for the sake of maximizing productivity and keeping our subconscious secret from ourselves.
Giving a 2 hour window is hardly pinpointing the exact amount needed
I genuinely don’t understand how anyone can get by sleeping less than 6 hours a night consistently. I understand some people don’t feel like they require as much sleep, but how can you maintain focus throughout the day?
When they report this stuff, are they doing like how regular people report sleep or how fitness apps report sleep which basically shave off like about an hour of „awake time“ that I am definitely not awake.
Because if the former, ive rarely missed 6-8 hours. If the latter, I’ve never had it.