Things that happen when you sleep too much – But Michael Irwin, MD, Cousins Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, says that sleeping too much can also cause disease. That’s because “long” sleep—which he defines as more than 8 hours—is usually poor sleep.
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“What we’re really looking at is a group of people who are spending a long time in bed,” says Irwin, who notes that these individuals might not be soundly asleep the whole time.
The bottom line? Sleeping too much could turn out to be just as damaging as sleeping too little. Here are a few of the problems you might face if you regularly overdo it. (Feel better starting today with Rodale’s The Thyroid Cure, a new book that’s helped thousands of people finally solve the mystery of what’s ailing them.)
1. You’re at higher risk of heart disease.
If you snooze a ton, you lose…at least when it comes to heart health. Heart disease is already the number one cause of death in the US, and sleeping more than 8 hours a night increases your chances of dying from it by 34%.
Women are more prone to sleeping longer than men, which puts them at the highest risk of developing heart problems.
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