The Amount of Sleep You Need is What You Need to Feel Fully Rested
Figure this out on weekends or vacations if your workday is too rushed. Some people need three hours, some nine, most of us around eight. In Laboratory testing, women generally sleep deeper and with less interruptions than men in an artificial setting. Real life? Well, that's a whole separate ball game. Women get pregnant, which can really wreck sleep. Women still provide the majority of child care and infants don't know about biological clocks, while children possess their own. The result: mommies wake up a lot. Menstruating women often wake at night and have a hard time getting back to sleep. When menstruation finally ebbs hot flashes begin, waking women with drenching sweats oozing from every pore. Then there are school schedules which pay no attention to the large rest needs of children and adolescents, without which their brains won't properly learn. Add on jobs, often multiple during an economic crisis, housework and and the care of elderly parents, and American women are lucky to average six-and-a-half hours sleep a night
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