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Dr. Matt Walker: The Science & Practice of Perfecting Your Sleep

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Is Too Much Sleep a Predictor of Mortality?

When we get sick, one of the things that we do immediately is want to sleep more. So it artificially looks as though more sleep leads to a higher risk of death when sleep was actually responding to the mortality risk and it lost the battle. Can you sleep too much? You know, which is the fifth element of the life equation,. alongside food, water, oxygen, a, you know, so forth. I should say, ou can't even count clearly i'm sleeping. Well, ar, yes, i think there could be that possibility. Are most people in danger of getting too much sleep? Oh, trare, if you look at the dataso. But i don

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