A bed like a toilet

Not a dream! How good sleep prolongs your life

Sleep researcher Kerstin Hödlmoser knows that healthy sleep is not only important for physical regeneration, but also for mental regeneration.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/stock.adobe.com, Michael Brauer)

"I can sleep when I'm dead": if you share this opinion, you should reconsider. Because sleep, especially good sleep, is often underestimated - and in the worst-case scenario, ironically, this has an impact on your life expectancy. We took a closer look at the whole topic with Salzburg sleep researcher Kerstin Hödlmoser as part of the new ÖAW project "FÄKT!".

Sleep is not a little side story that just has to happen: sleep is important. This is shown by the fact that we sleep for around a third of our lives. And if you don't sleep enough, you may have noticed how your stimulus threshold drops by the evening: "Healthy sleep is not only important for physical recovery and regeneration, but also for emotional and psychological recovery," says psychologist and psychotherapist Kerstin Hödlmoser from the University of Salzburg.