This claim suggests that how much you sleep at night does not change the levels of a specific antioxidant enzyme in your blood. Whether you get less than five hours, five to seven hours, or more than seven hours of sleep, your body's natural defense against oxidative stress stays the same.

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Prognostic Factors Associated With Sleep Duration: Serum Pro-Oxidant/Antioxidant Balance and Superoxide Dismutase 1 as Oxidative Stress Markers and Anxiety/Depression

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2023

The study confirms that while one antioxidant marker changes when people sleep too little, another stays the same, supporting the idea that not all antioxidant defenses react equally to short sleep.

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Prognostic Factors Associated With Sleep Duration: Serum Pro-Oxidant/Antioxidant Balance and Superoxide Dismutase 1 as Oxidative Stress Markers and Anxiety/Depression

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DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2023.1606014

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Getting less than five hours of sleep each night is linked to higher levels of oxidative stress in your blood compared to getting seven or more hours. This means your body might be producing more harmful free radicals when you don't sleep enough.

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