Lack of sleep equals more colds
January 12th, 2009
I know I said that my days of posting about research were numbered but this one is pretty relevant, especially to those living in colder climates right now.
Researchers locked 153 healthy people in hotels rooms and infected them with a cold virus.
Those who slept fewer than seven hours were almost 3 times as likely to develop cold symptoms including sore throats, sneezing and blocked noses than those who got eight hours or more sleep.
Reuters.com reports:
People who sleep less than seven hours a night are three times as likely to catch a cold as their more well-rested friends and neighbors, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
The study supports the theory that sleep is important to immune function, said Sheldon Cohen and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Volunteers who spent less time in bed, or who spent their time in bed tossing and turning instead of snoozing, were much more likely to catch a cold when viruses were dripped into their noses, they found.
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