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The type of sleep you are getting each night could be influencing your risk of more than 80 diseases, a new study has found.

Whatever it is, it is the same, or close enough, night after night, and the precision of it is what unsettles you. A random awakening is just a bad night. An awakening on schedule feels like a message ...

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Researchers have found that it isn't just the total sleeping time, but the amount of time spent in REM sleep, that is linked to a lower risk of over 80 diseases.

Greater amounts of REM and deep sleep were associated with lower risks of dozens of diseases, and less than 5 hours of total ...

Thomas Edison famously regarded sleep as a waste of good work hours, electing to snooze a mere three or four hours every night. Benjamin Franklin wasn’t much of a fan of it either, quipping in his ...

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