如果你睡得太多，對你的身體沒有任何好處

如果你睡得太多，對你的身體沒有任何好處

It seems we're always being told to get more sleep — and for good reason.

似乎我們總是被告知要多睡覺——而且理由很充分。

Studies suggest skimping on sleep can lead to obesity, diabetes and even cancer. You might even find yourself with a head-full of false memories.

研究表明，睡眠不足會導致肥胖、糖尿病甚至癌癥。你甚至可能會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己頭腦中充滿了錯誤的記憶。

Scientists suggest the sweet spot for sleep is around seven or eight hours a night. (Photo: Lia Koltyrina/Shutterstock)

But rarely does science explore the dark side of sleeping too much. Maybe that's probably because few of us in today's work-addled world have the luxury of exploring that option.

但科學很少探索睡眠過多的陰暗面。也許這是因為，在如今這個工作充斥的世界里，很少有人有機會探索這種選擇。

It turns out, even that end of the sleep spectrum is not without its perils.

事實證明，即使是睡眠光譜的這一端也存在危險。

In a new study published in the journal Neurology, researchers plumbed the sleep patterns of those "fortunate" few — and found they may not be so lucky after all.

在《神經學》雜志上發(fā)表的一項新研究中，研究人員調查了那些“幸運的”少數人的睡眠模式，發(fā)現(xiàn)他們可能根本就沒有那么幸運。

In fact, they found that people who take long naps or who sleep nine or more hours at night may have a greater risk of stroke than those who get less sleep.

事實上，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)午睡時間長或晚上睡9個小時以上的人比睡眠不足的人患中風的風險更大。

Sleep, your heart and your life span

睡眠，你的心臟和你的壽命

Sleeping more than eight hours a night might increase your risk of heart problems. (Photo: YAKOBCHUK VIACHESLAV/Shutterstock)

In a similar study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers found people who get more than eight hours of sleep have greater mortality and cardiovascular risk compared to those who cobbled together less than seven hours.

在《美國心臟協(xié)會雜志》上發(fā)表的一項類似研究中，研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，睡眠時間超過8小時的人與睡眠時間不足7小時的人相比，死亡率和心血管疾病風險更高。

What's more, sleep-aholics — those who manage to get 10 hours a night — stood a 30% higher chance of dying compared to the seven-hour crowd.

更重要的是，睡眠狂——那些每晚睡10個小時的人——與睡7個小時的人相比，死亡率要高出30%。

"Our study has an important public health impact in that it shows that excessive sleep is a marker of elevated cardiovascular risk," lead researcher Chun Shing Kwok of Keele University notes in a press release.

“我們的研究對公眾健康有重要的影響，因為它表明，睡眠過多是心血管風險升高的一個標志，”基爾大學首席研究員郭春成在一份新聞稿中指出。

Sleep, the final doctor/patient frontier

睡眠，醫(yī)生/病人的最后邊界

It's important to keep in mind that people at different stages in their lives need more sleep than others. (Photo: Ramona Heim/Shutterstock)

In any case, the research points to a new and possibly life-saving line of questioning at the doctor's office: Namely, how much do you sleep?

無論如何，這項研究指出了醫(yī)生辦公室里一個可能挽救生命的新問題:也就是，你睡了多久?

"The important message is that abnormal sleep is a marker of elevated cardiovascular risk and greater consideration should be given in exploring both duration and sleep quality during patient consultations," Kwok says.

“重要的信息是，不正常的睡眠是心血管風險升高的一個標志，在病人咨詢期間，應該更多地考慮探索持續(xù)時間和睡眠質量，”郭說。

The researchers admit that sleep is a many-splintered thing — and the amount we can scrape together on any given day fluctuates wildly. It isn't like a multivitamin that we can pop daily and be assured of healthful results.

研究人員承認，睡眠是一個由許多碎片組成的東西，我們每天能勉強拼湊起來的睡眠量波動很大。它不像我們每天攝入的多種維生素那樣保證有益健康。

"The amount and quality of our sleep is complex," Kwok explains. "There are cultural, social, psychological, behavioral, pathophysiological and environmental influences on our sleep such as the need to care for children or family members, irregular working shift patterns, physical or mental illness, and the 24-hour availability of commodities in modern society."

“我們的睡眠量和質量是復雜的，”郭解釋說。“我們的睡眠會受到文化、社會、心理、行為、病理生理和環(huán)境方面的影響，比如照顧孩子或家人的需要、不規(guī)律的工作模式、身體或精神疾病，以及現(xiàn)代社會中24小時供應的商品。”

We are indeed living in an increasingly time micro-managed society.

我們確實生活在一個越來越微觀管理的社會。