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Do you know your sleep age?✪最准一肖一码100%澳门
Age is just a number, but sleep age, coined by Stanford Medicine researchers, is a projection correlating to a person’s sleep health that may be a predictor of overall health and mortality risk. Sleep age is a calculation of a person’s overall sleep quality and sleep characteristics. After analyzing 12,000 studies, the researchers developed a system that assigns a person’s sleep age and, using machine learning, identifies the variations in sleep most closely linked to mortality. 澳门一肖一码一必中一肖✪however, the good news is that unlike your actual age you have the power to improve your sleep age.
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Sleep better with a little financial nudge?✪最准一肖一码100%澳门
When it comes to helping college students prioritize rest, s澳门一肖一码一必中一肖✪how them the money. The National Bureau of Economic Research recently gave 508 students at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Oxford a small stipend ($7.50 per night) Monday through Thursday to sleep longer. The money led to longer sleep: Those who got paid were 13% more likely to 澳门2023历史开奖记录✪Get more sleep. Researchers found that the students who’d received the financial incentive continued their good habits, and were 9% more likely to sleep seven to nine hours per night, up to six weeks after the payments concluded. Going forward, scientists want to study if interventions for college-age students will boost their academic performance.
Cold-blooded bedmate✪最准一肖一码100%澳门
Last week was International Dog Day, but this week, a different kind of pet made headlines: Wally the alligator is not just an emotional support animal, but a bedmate for Joseph Henney of Pennsylvania. Henney, who helps rescue and re-home reptiles, rescued now 7-year-old Wallygator in 2015 and says he instantly knew the gator was different. It wasn’t long after rescuing him that he built a bond with Wallygator, trusting him to roam freely around the house and later share his bed with him. While this may seem like a thing of nightmares for some people, Henney says Wallygator keeps him cool during the hot summer months.
In sleep-centric social media…✪最准一肖一码100%澳门
Tiktok user @kirstensxlifestyle shares a video of her winding down for the night.
