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dj l's avatar

it's usually 6 for me; every once in a while 5, which I'm not happy w/. Retired so never use an alarm clock - no matter what time I go to bed, I wake up at about the same time

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Rick Dowling's avatar

Maybe interesting given a bit more research than I did, but roughly 8% of Canadians have cardiovascular disease anyway, so…I’m not changing my sleeping. 😴

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Darrell's avatar

Hey Rick…thought you might like this site. Here is an excerpt:

Cardiovascular diseases are the second leading cause of death in Canada, accounting for around 17.2 percent of all deaths in 2022. That year, it was estimated that around 76,639 people in Canada died from major cardiovascular diseases, including diseases of the heart, essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease, cerebrovascular diseases, atherosclerosis, and other diseases of the circulatory system.

https://www.statista.com/topics/10846/cardiovascular-disease-in-canada/

As for the US (this makes me think NHC in Canada is much better than the US) the CDC says 20% die each year.

https://www.cdc.gov/heart-disease/data-research/facts-stats/index.html

And there is this:

The report, published Thursday in the AHA journal Circulation, has been released annually since 1958 and is based on data from the National Institutes of Health and other government sources. This year's report said 121.5 million adults in the U.S. – 48 percent based on 2016 figures – have cardiovascular disease. Heart disease was the No. 1 cause of death in the U.S. and stroke was No. 5, the same ranking as in the previous year.

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2019/01/31/cardiovascular-diseases-affect-nearly-half-of-american-adults-statistics-show

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Rick Dowling's avatar

So, even higher as a cause of death. Yep, definitely not changing my sleep schedule now. Thanks!

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Melissa's avatar

Since retiring, I am sleeping longer, but not always better. My watch tracks my sleep time and different types of sleep and HVR (not that I have figured out what that is!). Don’t believe everything it says, but data is interesting. I can usually tell if I’ve slept well by how I am feeling. Never was much of one for taking naps, but dad was great at it.

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dj l's avatar

My husband takes naps - I can’t - I think he sleeps too much??? But I can get really tired at times…

Oh but dreams!!!! I love them !!! That might be another topic - I dream nightly 😌

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Bill Murphy Jr.'s avatar

Whoops. A funny thing (sort of) is that I had this as a "failsafe" article ... set in case I didn't get home in time to do the Big Optimism email. So, those of you who subscribe to both got two!

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S. Rowe's avatar

IIRC I read in Outside Magazine like 12 years ago that some Olympic athletes sleep 10+ hours a day. That said, I usually aim for 7, but average around 6. I also read that the more times you push the 24 hr envelope the greater chance you have of developing Alzheimers. Read that after a 70-hr stint once. Sleep is interesting.

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