Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Hidden Risk of Not Getting Enough Sleep | The Real Reason You’re Not Sleeping

8 Jul 2025

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This is a YouTube video titled "The Hidden Risk of Not Getting Enough Sleep | The Real Reason You’re Not Sleeping" containing a discussion about sleep duration and its impact on all-cause mortality, highlighting optimal sleep times and risks associated with sleeping too little or too much. The content appears to be a monologue or single-speaker explanation without multiple participants.

The inflection points are 6 hours of sleep at night between 6 and 7, and then 9 to 10. So optimal longevity all cause mortality we talked about before, you know, dying for any reason whatsoever. The lowest all cause mortality is that seven and a half plus or minus spot. Once you start going down to that six or seven, that's when you start seeing the all cause mortality like skyrocket up. When you get involved nine or ten, you start to see it skyrocket up. So when people sleep like long periods of time, there's a concern of there's something underlying that's increasing your risk for dying for under cause.