Lowering your sleep age by reducing the amount of disruptions, improving quality of rest and getting an adequate amount each night can help ward of diseases like Parkinson’s and extend a person’s life by reducing their ‘sleep age’- and extend your life up to 8.7 years.

A joint research team from Stanford University and the Danish Center for Sleep Medicine found a clear correlation between the estimated sleep age of a person and their life-span.

They used polysomnography tests (PSGs), which gauge multiple biometrics to determine sleep-quality and diagnose potential sleep issues in people to figure a person’s sleep age. Elderly people generally suffer more disturbances, and a decrease in quality of sleep can be an early sign that a person will develop a cognitive impairment like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s or dementia in the future… (Continue to full article)