Peter Attia· MD
the idea for long sleep was that these patients were probably already sick and they were having sickness that wasn't being measured and factored into these analyses that we weren't quantifying and it was that additional sickness that was missing from the analyses but was still present that was forcing those people to sleep longer than they would normally otherwise they were trying to sleep themselves well but whatever disease that they had was still too powerful for this thing called sleep and they still died so it artificially looked like long sleep was associated with a quicker death when in fact it could have been that long sleep was the thing that was desperately trying to save them but it failed