{"id":198951,"date":"2024-11-08T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-reveal-how-much-sleep-you-need-for-successful-aging"},"modified":"2024-11-08T17:26:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T23:26:16","slug":"scientists-reveal-how-much-sleep-you-need-for-successful-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-reveal-how-much-sleep-you-need-for-successful-aging","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Reveal How Much Sleep You Need For \u2018Successful Aging\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reveal-how-much-sleep-you-need-for-successful-aging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all want to \u2018age successfully\u2019 with as few health issues as possible. A new study suggests getting more than seven hours of sleep a night could go a long way to achieving that goal.<\/p>\n<p>The study involved 3,306 participants aged 45 and over, whose sleep habits were recorded in 2011, 2013, and 2015, followed by a health check five years later. The data, analyzed by a team from Wenzhou Medical University in China, showed that those who bank at least seven hours of sleep a night tend to have significantly better health later in life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuccessful aging was evaluated in 2020 and was defined as being free of major chronic diseases, no physical impairment, high cognitive function, good mental health, and active engagement with life,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12889-024-20524-7\">write<\/a> the researchers in their published paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all want to \u2018age successfully\u2019 with as few health issues as possible. A new study suggests getting more than seven hours of sleep a night could go a long way to achieving that goal. The study involved 3,306 participants aged 45 and over, whose sleep habits were recorded in 2011, 2013, and 2015, followed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198951","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}