How is climate change impacting our sleep? Without proper, restful sleep, we are never going to reach optimal health. In fact, insufficient sleep can lead to larger issues like decreased mental function, compromised physical performance, mental illness, weight gain, and more. A study posted in Cell explains that climate change, particularly the rise in temperatures, is negatively impacting our sleep globally and is impacting the elderly, women, and lower-income countries the most. The study linked “billions of repeated sleep measurements from sleep-tracking wristbands comprising over 7 million sleep records… across 68 countries.” In fact, by the year 2099, temperature change “may erode 50–58 h of sleep per person-year.”
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