Sleep is known to have amazing health benefits – but how much shuteye is too much?
The answer isn’t so straightforward, Dr. Chris Winter, a Virginia-based neurologist and sleep medicine specialist with Mattress Firm, told Fox News Digital.
“This is to some degree an impossible question to answer,” he wrote.
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As with food and other lifestyle factors, Winter explained that the ideal amount of sleep is a “dynamic range.”
Sleep durations exceeding 11 to 12 hours might prompt concern, the expert said. (iStock)
“What is too much food for me might be an amazingly inadequate amount for an Olympic swimmer,” he said as an example.
For the average adult, sleep durations exceeding 11 to 12 hours would be considered “too much” and would start “prompting questions about sleep quality and sleep consistency,” Winter said.
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