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

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.

Researchers found that getting more REM sleep—the stage when dreaming occurs—was associated with a lower risk of 83 diseases.

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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