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How much sleep do you need? It depends on your age! #sleep #youtubeshorts #shorts #ed #sexualhealth

17 Oct 2023 · 0 min

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Anne Truong MD explains how much sleep you need at different ages. The National Sleep Foundation recommends 8-10 hours for kids under 18 and 7-8 hours for adults. About half of how much sleep you naturally need is genetic, and too little sleep causes fatigue, irritability, accidents, and poor concentration.

Questions this video answers

About 50% is stated to be inherited or genetically determined.

About 8–10 hours of sleep.

It states older adults require between 7–8 hours of sleep.

Your circadian rhythm, which is the rhythm that is within your.
Body to tell.
You when to go to sleep and when to wake up, is a natural internal sleep.
Wake cycle that works.
Through every 24 hours. Now, this cycle varies from person to person, and 50% of it is actually inherited or genetically determined.
However, according.
To National Sleep foundation, younger Kids less than 18 need about eight to 10 hours of sleep.
An older adult.
About 22, require between seven to eight hours of sleep. However, when you don't get enough sleep, your overall health and function is impaired. When you don't get enough sleep, you experience daytime fatigue, irritability, higher risk of accident if you're driving or even falls, and difficulty with concentration and just slow movement.