Sleep: It’s something most of us value but don’t get nearly enough of. While people generally equate “good sleep” with getting eight consecutive hours, a University of California San Diego paper on sleep research and aging reviewed data from 1.1 million people and determined that there is no statistically significant reason to sleep longer than six and a half hours per night. In fact, the people in the research who slept six and a half hours a night lived longer than the ones who slept eight!
Don’t panic getting eight hours a night won’t kill you. However, it does bring into focus what’s really important: your sleep quality. A lack of the right kind of sleep can increase your risk of heart disease and cancer and even raise your risk of death. (These sleep mistakes can even lead to weight gain.)
If you’re having trouble sleeping through the night, there are some supplements you can take to help you slip off to dreamland without feeling super groggy the next day. Here are seven supplements that’ll improve the quality of your sleep, adapted from The Bulletproof Diet.
Magnesium
Recommended dosage : 600 to 800 milligrams (mg) per day. Magnesium is used in more than 300 enzymatic processes, which means that low magnesium leads to low cellular energy. Plus, having enough makes the body more resilient to stress……..
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