re: Could Taking Longer Holidays Help You Live Longer?

alancraig1146 — 9/4/2018 6:28:16 AM

If you are a hard-core entrepreneur as I was (retired now) you can't build a profitable business to the extent I did only working 35-40 hours a week. I put in well over 100 hour weeks for many years and am glad I was able to dos so. I'm in excellent health and don't suffer from any of the maladies Mercola mentions.

re: Could Taking Longer Holidays Help You Live Longer?

Brian1 — 9/4/2018 1:41:58 AM

It's good to know how important stress reduction is. Some people claim not to need much sleep. It's important to have objective ratings. I assume that biking to work doesn't cut it either. I wonder what the mortality rates correlates with. If it correlates with RBC magnesium levels, supplementing might help. Other information such as waist to hip, blood presure, resting heart rate, artery flexibility, etc can be helpful in determining when we should take vacations or work on other areas.

How many days of vacation per year should we take? How should we spread those days out for maximum health benefits? Should we do one week twice a year, combine them to get longer weekends, or spread them out as much as possible?

For sleep vacations, it seems like contiguous days off is best. It might be a better way to catch up on sleep. If we work normally work Mondays through Fridays and sleep in on a Wednesday, we might risk sleeping poorly for the next day and not improving the average sleep duration.

I'm autistic and I think it adds another challenge. We might not express feelings the way neurotypicals do. I've slept around 5 hours a night chronically and don't come across as tired according to one of my co-workers. If we looked tired, I wonder if people are more likely to encourage us to get proper rest.