Revealed: Why we lose sleep as we grow older
A good night's sleep becomes more elusive with age, but what older people label as insomnia may actually be an evolutionary survival trait that helped keep their ancestors alive. A study of modern hunter-gatherers in Africa found that when family members of all different ages live together, the …
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