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Sleep habits may have long-term benefits

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Couldn't a poor sleep pattern just be a symptom of an illness?

Yes it’s like “Was the chicken or the egg born first?” anyway if you sleep bad maybe you don’t know your issue, and if you just sleep bad you will have more chance to die prematurely. This research just want to say this i think.

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Couldn't a poor sleep pattern just be a symptom of an illness?

Also, say sleeping well adds 6 months to your life, then not sleeping well "killed" you 6 months earlier.

If you sleep for 20 extra minutes every day, that's a full extra year sleeping over a 72 year span. (If you exclude 1/3 of the time as sleep, that's a year and a half of extra awake time.)

If you gain 1.5 years of extra time awake but lose 0.5 years of life, did you win or lose time?

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