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Older adult reading a book in a warm library, illustrating the Yale study linking regular book reading with longevity and lower mortality risk.

📚 Bookworms Live Longer: Yale Study Links Reading Books to a Longer Life 📖⚡

Could a chapter a day help keep mortality away? A Yale study following 3,635 adults found book readers had a 20% lower mortality risk over 12 years—and an unadjusted 23-month survival advantage. The findings don't prove causation, but they give bookworms another excellent reason to keep turning pages. 📚

 

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Sleep duration Goldilocks curve showing 6–8 hours linked to healthier biological aging, with short and long sleep at either extreme.

😴 How Much Sleep Do You Really Need? Nature Finds a 6–8 Hour Longevity Sweet Spot

A major Nature study examining 23 biological ageing clocks across the brain and body found a striking U-shaped relationship with sleep: both too little and too much were associated with faster ageing, disease and mortality. The biological sweet spots clustered around 6.4–7.8 hours. So sleep well—but perhaps don't sleep through your life.

 

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