Pay attention to your sleep time and patterns, because it turns out that excessive sleeping hours are also not good for your health.
A professor of sleep medicine at Harvard University reveals that individuals who sleep more than 10 hours per day generally have worse health profiles than those who sleep 7 to 8 hours.
Sleep more than 8 hours a night as well as sleeplessness. If this continuously happens to you, that would increase your chances of dying from it by 34%. According to the research of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, women are more prone to sleeping longer than men, which puts them at the highest risk of developing heart problems.
Many studies show that people who don't sleep enough tend to be heavier. But, this risk could happen to those who sleep too much. One theory is that too much sleep translates to too little exercise and the metabolism goes slower. The more you sleep, the less you move, and the fewer calories you burn off.
Too much sleep can raise your blood sugar levels. High blood glucose can increase your risk of getting type 2 diabetes. Experts guessed, being more sedentary and overweight is likely what's driving this risk factor.
Can't concentrate? Blame your time between the sheets. Chronic long sleeping can age your brain by as much as 2 years and make it difficult to perform everyday tasks, according to research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Sounds scary, but true. Large-scale epidemiologic studies have shown that people who sleep longer are more likely to die prematurely. No one knows exactly why, but inflammation probably plays an important role.
Depression and sleep go hand in hand, but it's a chicken-and-egg situation. Studies have shown that people with certain types of depression sleep longer. And longer sleep can make depression worse.