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Health and Healthcare Systems
Sleeping in stages could be good for your health
Research suggests it might have been the norm to sleep in 4-hour bursts, broken by up to 3 hours of activity.
Melinda Jackson is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT University.
Research suggests it might have been the norm to sleep in 4-hour bursts, broken by up to 3 hours of activity.
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