Jay Novella

But they didn't find the exact causes of why this was functioning.

So this is like the very beginning of them going into deeper studies to get more details.

Short sleep could plausibly contribute to worse health.

I think it's pretty well established at this point.

Chronic sleep restriction can stress the body in lots of different ways, but long sleep is harder to interpret.

And this is the one I was interested in because short sleep just seems so obvious.

You feel awful.

There's so many things that don't work right when you didn't get enough sleep.

But sleeping more than eight hours may not be the problem, but it might mean that something else is wrong.

Meaning, hey, in your case, Carrie, you had an actual thing.

Yeah, I had a sleep disorder.

And I think that's more on the money than not, right?

So sleeping longer is a sign that something else health-wise is not right.

It doesn't necessarily mean that getting eight hours of sleep or nine hours of sleep or whatever is damaging you, which it's a very different thing than too little sleep.

Yeah, and if you get one of those, you can do it with an Apple Watch, can do it, whatever.

There's lots of products out there.

The Aura Ring actually seems to rate really well.

I looked into that not too long ago.

Anyway, so depression or having depression, they were saying that short sleep and long sleep were both linked to what they called late-life depression.

But it wasn't necessarily for the same reason.