Andrew Huberman· PhD
after about 16 hours of wakefulness we need about an 8 hourish and it's 7 to n hours is the recommendation
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after about 16 hours of wakefulness we need about an 8 hourish and it's 7 to n hours is the recommendation
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good amount of sleep would be somewhere between 7 to n and that's the current recommendation that's the recommendation by many health organizations including here in the US which is the CDC they recommend or they stipulate a minimum of 7 hours for the average adult
somewhere between 7 to9 for the average adult
we've constantly been speaking about in our discussions how much sleep does a person need what's the optimal amount and we're speaking about somewhere between seven to nine hours when i say that i'm talking about seven to nine hours of sleep not time in bed where you might lose 10 to 15 of it right
And they seem to sleep what we now think of as a natural amount, which is somewhere between, if you look at the distribution, seven to nine hours.
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