Going To Sleep Before 11 PM Reduces The Risk of Heart Disease
It's Goldilock’s time for sleep: between 10 pm and 11 pm, sleeping less than an hour lowers your risk of heart disease.
Sleeping on either side of the 'sweet spot' hour raises your risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) twofold, especially if you are a woman.
The most serious danger is for individuals who don't fall asleep before midnight, and it's all due to our body clock. Probably, you won't be awake to see the sunrise if you fall asleep that late, which means your body clock will never adapt to the new day.
Researchers at the University of Exeter claim that honoring our body clock rhythms is critical to maintaining good health. They examined the sleeping habits of more than 103,000 individuals who used a Fitbit-type device while sleeping.
In the next six years, 3,172 people were diagnosed with CVD, and those who didn't sleep past midnight had the most cases.
Those who slept after midnight had a 25% higher risk of CVD, while those who were sleeping before 10 pm were 24% more likely to develop heart problems. The risk for those sleeping between 10 pm and 11 pm was just half that, at 12 percent.