You likely already know how important a good night’s sleep is to our brain health and alertness.But it can be hard to work out exactly what constitutes a decent kip ― after all, the eight-hour rule has proven to be a little too generalised . Still, researchers from Baylor University recently found that sleeping for a set amount of extra minutes per night positively contributed to participants’ overall well-being, pro-sociability, gratitude, resilience, and “flourishing.” The study, published in the Journal of Positive Psychology, measured both the adverse effects of a lack of sleep and the benefits of catching a few more Zzzzs.How many minutes more should I sleep?The study, which randomly assigne
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