I’ll read it. That can be true in isolation and also not relevant for all-cause mortality, which seems to be lowest around 6 hours per night (figure 1 in my link with links to backing studies)pic.twitter.com/fIxv92b0B0
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I’ll read it. That can be true in isolation and also not relevant for all-cause mortality, which seems to be lowest around 6 hours per night (figure 1 in my link with links to backing studies)pic.twitter.com/fIxv92b0B0
True. I haven’t looked at the papers Alexey worked from, but the first thing that comes to my mind with this kind of data is causation vs correlation. It’s similar to the weight vs mortality risk models: Sick people tend to be underweight, and sleeping a lot, etc.
the evidence of sleep on perfromance and productivity is unequivocal.
That is true! I never argue that sleep is not important. I argue that 1) Why We Sleep is scientifically inaccurate, despite Walker's claiming the opposite 2) people should sleep as much as they need and this varies a lot. Walker claims 8 hours is recommended, which is not true.pic.twitter.com/GeF5L34LLh
I just checked the book (The Telomere Effect). The study that's perhaps referred to here(Which Walker also mentions, the one about the civil servants) is an association study, not causal.
The one claim for "missing a night of sleep /sleeping badly" says it increased the levels of cortisol.
is short-term increase in cortisol unhealthy? or is it just a temporary stress reaction like an increased heart rate during exercise?
I haven't even checked the paper itself, that's a separate question. But causally, it strikes me as odd that just a night of sleep would cause anything to telomeres. As far as I could find online ("rct telomere sleep") that has not been tested.
In the general case, I would probably say that nothing affects telomere length in the short term. Long term there may be some things. Hopefully I'll be pointed out to papers showing otherwise. (I just found a review saying diet does not, exercise is mixed evidence)
see forthcoming book The Joy of Movement for evidence on excercise.
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