Your Heart Needs More Than Six Hours of Sleep Nightly

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By Dr. Mercola

When you think of methods to boost your heart health, you probably think about diet and exercise, but there’s another component that’s also important: sleep. Getting enough sleep each night, and quality sleep at that, has previously been associated with cardiovascular risk, and recent research also found that sleep is connected with subclinical atherosclerosis.1

Atherosclerosis is a chronic and progressive inflammatory disease that manifests clinically as coronary heart disease. Otherwise known as hardening and narrowing of the arteries, atherosclerosis describes a buildup of plaques in your arteries that can restrict blood flow, leading to blood clots, heart attack and stroke.

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