Commentary: How Much Sleep Do You Need? Forget the Eight‑hour Rule
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7 Articles
Optimum sleep takes time. But how much is not so safe by now. What we can learn from original societies and from historical data.
Follow-up by researchers on the common belief that eight hours of sleep per day is a constant and necessary standard for all people, stressing that the quality, regularity and timing of sleep may be more important than the commitment to a specified number of hours. Depending on the results of the collection and analysis of data from the fields of anthropology, genetics and history, the most striking difference between the sleep patterns of moder…
For decades, the answer to the question "how much sleep does an adult need?" was simple: eight hours.
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Eight hours of sleep isn't right for everyone. A new analysis shows that needs vary from person to person, and for many, the optimum is between six and eight hours.
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