United States: The latest study showed that one of the most useful ways to prevent sleepless nights is to engage in some kind of exercise.
Dr. Erla Björnsdóttir, the lead study author, sleep expert, and part-time teacher and researcher at Reykjavik University, said, “Physically active people have a lower risk of insomnia symptoms and extreme sleep duration, both long and short,” as CNN Health reported.
More about the study
The recent analysis involved more than 4,300 participants across the ages of 39 to 67 and followed up for the period of a decade recorded.
The report will be published in the journal BMJ Open and is scheduled for Tuesday.
Björnssdóttir is associated with a sleep app that monitors sleep and gives advice and links to healthy sleep patterns. The company didn’t sponsor this research, and the authors didn’t state any conflict of interest.
Participants from nine European countries were surveyed, whose questions were concerned with their frequency, intensity, and duration of physical activity, as well as their symptoms of Insomnia, their amounts of sleep each night, and the feeling of daytime sleepiness.
What did the findings reveal?

People who followed the recommendations of this active lifestyle for a period of 6 months were 55 percent more likely to be classified by doctors as “normal sleepers” – those who sleep 6 to 9 hours a night – and people who became active during the allotted period of time were 21 percent more likely to become “normal sleepers” after adjusting for age, sex, body mass index (BMI) and smoking.
These results stand well on their own and are further substantiated by an existing body of literature.
According to CNN Health, Dr. David Neubauer, the associate professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said this. The was nothing he could Add but still, it was a learning experience.
The results are strong on their own but are also supported by an existing body of literature, said Dr. David Neubauer, associate professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was not involved in the research.
Björnsdóttir said, “Our results are in line with previous studies that have shown a beneficial effect of physical activity on symptoms of insomnia, but the current study additionally shows the importance of consistency in exercise over time,” as CNN reported.
Further added, “It therefore matters to be physically active throughout your life in order to reduce the risk of insomnia and short sleep duration.”
Dr. Shalini Paruthi, who is the codirector of the Sleep Medicine and Research Center at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield, Missouri, and an American Academy of Sleep Medicine spokesperson said that the study might provide an addition tool to health care professionals besides medication and research.
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