And what if we sleep more than enough alias redundant?
"Individuals who slept more than 10 hours per day generally have a health profile that is worse than those who slept 7 to 8 hours per day," said Susan Redline, MD, MPH, professor of sleep medicine at Harvard and senior physician in the division of sleep and circadian disruption disorder at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Michael Irwin, MD, professor of psychiatry and at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said that sleeping too much can also cause a variety of diseases.
Here are some health problems that you may face if you too often oversleeping.
You are at higher risk of heart disease
Sleep more than eight hours, as well as sleep deprivation, long periods of time can increase the chances of becoming shorter lifespan by 34 percent.
