{"id":187260,"date":"2024-04-12T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/consistently-exercising-2-3-times-a-week-over-the-long-term-linked-to-lower-current-insomnia-risk"},"modified":"2024-04-12T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:27:10","slug":"consistently-exercising-2-3-times-a-week-over-the-long-term-linked-to-lower-current-insomnia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/consistently-exercising-2-3-times-a-week-over-the-long-term-linked-to-lower-current-insomnia-risk","title":{"rendered":"Consistently Exercising 2\u20133 times a week over the Long Term linked to Lower Current Insomnia Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/consistently-exercising-2-3-times-a-week-over-the-long-term-linked-to-lower-current-insomnia-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Consistently exercising 2\u20133 times a week over the long term is linked to a lower current risk of insomnia as well as the ability to clock up the recommended 6\u20139 hours of shut-eye every night, suggests an international 10-year study published in the open access journal BMJ Open.<\/p>\n<p>Regular exercise is associated with better overall health, and several studies have suggested that physical activity promotes better quality sleep and may improve symptoms of chronic insomnia, note the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not entirely clear how much gender, age, weight (BMI), overall fitness, general health, and exercise type contribute to this association, they add.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consistently exercising 2\u20133 times a week over the long term is linked to a lower current risk of insomnia as well as the ability to clock up the recommended 6\u20139 hours of shut-eye every night, suggests an international 10-year study published in the open access journal BMJ Open. Regular exercise is associated with better overall [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}