Physical activity can mitigate the negative association between poor sleep quality/quantity and all-cause mortality.

“getting sufficient sleep does negate the effects of being physically inactive.”

“Exercise negates the effects of short sleep on ACM.”

“Exercise may be more important than sleep - being physically active nullifies any association of short sleep with ACM, but getting sufficient sleep does negate the effects of being physically inactive.”

“Groups with the two lowest levels of physical activity (<7.5 and 7.5-14.9 MET-h) and less <6 hours of sleep per week had a statistically significantly greater ACM risk (27% and 11%, respectively) vs. the reference group (30 or more MET-h and 6-8 hours of sleep).”

“People who slept less than 6 hours a night had a decreased life expectancy compared to those that slept between 6-8 hours a night - but only in people that were NOT physically active.”

“However, this, this recent study also looked at physical activity and it was interesting because sleep, you know, quality and quantity, again, was associated, so lower quantity was associated with higher all cause mortality, but only in people that were not physically active. In other words, physical activity forgave the sleep disruption, the, the poor sleep.”

“people that sleep fewer than 7 hours or greater than 9 hours a night are have have a higher all cause mortality However if those people are physically active and they're getting and they're meeting the guidelines for physical activity 75 minutes a week of intense vigorous exercise or 150 minutes a week of moderate intensity exercise they do not have a higher all cause mortality they have the same mortality risk as someone that's getting good sleep”