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Sleeping Too Much Might Be Bad for You Now, Because Apparently Nothing Is Safe

Researchers found that sleeping outside a moderate range was associated with signs of accelerated aging across the body.

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Science has all but confirmed at this point that getting too little sleep will eventually damage your brain in the long term. Years of poor sleep have been linked to everything from memory decline to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. So naturally, the obvious solution would seem to be to go hard in the opposite direction and sleep as much as possible.

According to new research covered by The Washington Post, science has swooped in to ruin that plan, too.

A massive study published in Nature found that both too little and too much sleep are essentially the same, with........

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