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New study finds that having too many nightmares can kill you

Woman laying in bed covering her face at night
Woman laying in bed covering her face at night
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The world apparently is just finding out what Freddy Kreuger taught us all 40 years ago.

A new study in England found that people who have a lot of nightmares are more likely to die before they hit the age of 70 than those that have nice, normal dreams!


According to the European Academy of Neurology, researchers tracked people for almost two decades and found that individuals who had nightmares at least once a week were three times more likely to die before the age of 70.

The study also found that having lots of nightmares also makes you age faster.

Researchers believe this is due to our bodies responding to the stress while dreaming the same way they would in real life stating, "Nightmares lead to prolonged elevations of cortisol, a stress hormone closely linked to faster cellular aging."

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