Here's how to get good sleep: It's quality over quantity

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Good sleep is 'quality over quantity', new study reveals.

The quality of your sleep, rather than the quantity, is more important for your immune system.The US-based National Sleep Foundation advises that healthy adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep per nightBut the British researchers found that people who slept less could enjoy normal health, as long as they felt they got good quality shut-eye.

"But there was a really important twist: what we showed when we looked much closer at the data, was that the increase in respiratory infections with sleep restriction were restricted to those who had poor sleep quality. "We do sleep short in the week, maybe we restrict by a couple of hours - we have to get up early in the morning for work, etc.

 

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