Too much sleep can reduce your lifespan!

I dont think so....My grandpa is 89 now....he use to sleep daily 10 hrs....he is din this for more than 30 yrs...Infact he is the most active person in my home...

Well,I must definitely admit that this is the first time that I am hearing that excess of sleep will decrease your life span.I have seen a lot of discussions that tells about lack of sleep due to the busty schedule of the present world.It asked every one to have at least 6 hours of sleep and not to stress ourselves too much due to work or any other thing. I have heard that lack of sleep,would decrease our life span and said that everyone should have at least 6 hours of sleep a day. And what you said may be true but I am not so sure.May be ,its right.Excess of sleep will make you more lazy and you will start doing less amount of work,and your body would become obese and your health may be spoiled.And if your health is spoiled,ultimately your life span will decrease.Its just as a cyclic process. So,I think everything from sleep to eating to exercise,should be done with a limit.Excess of one thing or less of one thing would definitely decrease your life span and would definitely decrease. So,don't stress yourself in the night for work and also don't sleep too long. Cheers! Have a good day Happy mylotting and happy earnings.

alindahaw, if this is true then I am going to live forever. I rarely get more than five hours of sleep a day, and that's on a good day. Maybe there is hope that I did not know existed to help me reach a ripe old age; who would have guessed?

That sounds too unbelievable to me. Surely the only thing being reduced is how much life you actually spend awake so I guess in theory it is kinda true. We spend on average 1/3 of our lives asleep so we'd increase our lifespan if we slept 6 hours a night instead of 8 *joking* Where did you read that article? I have read plenty of studies on sleep deprivation but not on the effects of sleeping too much. How exactly does it supposedly reduce your lifespan?

That is good news! Lol. I don't really get to sleep more than 8 hours. 6-7 hours of sleep is really enough for me. As long as I don't do the nighttime shift then my sleep would be normal.

Yes,having seen what you post,i really believe in the parlance. For so many times,i feel tired when i have a long-time sleep,i just don't know why,Rest can be the killer?Maybe,everything has its own limit,not the more the better,or the less the better,take sleeping for example,sleeping 8 hours is rather ok.:)