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The Eight-Hour Rule Was Never Measured. A New Review Asks What We Got Wrong About Sleep
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The Eight-Hour Rule Was Never Measured. A New Review Asks What We Got Wrong About Sleep
Eight hours a night. It’s printed on wellness app dashboards, pediatric handouts, and the side of the melatonin bottle in the medicine cabinet. It’s also, according to a sweeping new review published in the journal Brain Medicine, a number that traces back to nineteenth-century arithmetic rather than actual measurement — and one that field data from modern hunter-gatherer societies doesn’t support as any kind of ancestral baseline. The review, l…
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