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“Getting bright light throughout the day could be just as important for improving sleep as avoiding blue light exposure at night. After exposure to daytime bright light (6.5 hours), evening use of a tablet for two hours did not affect sleep in healthy young students.”

“Rat study shows that testosterone decreased by up to 2.7-fold if sleep deprived for 96 hours but the good news is that rebound sleep may help bring testosterone levels back to normal (at least in the rat study).”

“Yoga not only extended sleep duration but also improved sleep quality and reduced time spent awake during the night. Walking or jogging sharply reduced insomnia severity, and Tai Chi improved both sleep duration and the time it took to fall asleep.”

“These data support other data suggesting that sleep loss may lead to a catabolic state in skeletal muscle. While this study studied the effects of 24 hours of sleep deprivation, other studies have suggested that sleep quality and quantity are also important for metabolic health.”

“The damage could be repaired by two days of catch-up sleep. DNA repair enzymes were significantly decreased in sleep-deprived animals. This is no surprise because repair mechanisms occur during sleep.”

“Still, the findings suggest that keeping bedrooms cooler than 24°C (75.2°F) at night could represent a practical strategy to help reduce cardiovascular strain in older adults. In episode #107, renowned sleep expert Dr. Michael Grandner explains how to overcome insomnia and use sleep to optimize health.”

“This same increase in well-being was found after somebody has won a jackpot of around £200,000. While this study does not establish causality, many other studies have found that sleep is very important for mental and physical wellbeing.”

“FTA: > Many studies have linked more sleep to better memory, but new research in fruit flies demonstrates that extra sleep helps the brain overcome catastrophic neurological defects that otherwise would block memory formation, report scientists.”

“Conventional health advice, such as healthy eating, physical activity, and education level are linked with slowed epigenetic aging, albeit weakly, and obesity, sleep deprivation, and smoking are linked with accelerated epigenetic aging.”

“There may be a complex interaction between exercise and sleep with respect to motor memory consolidation. Both groups (non-exercise and exercise group) had a full night of sleep. But the exercise group did not perform better at the 8-hour mark...only at the 24-hour mark.”