Sentences with phrase «hour night of sleep»

In fact, some scholars believe that before the 19th century, it was common for people to spread a typical eight - hour night of sleep spread out over about 12 hours of darkness, especially during the long nights of winter.

I work full time so its really tiring to not get sleep and have to wake up so early on 3 hours a night of sleep.

Not exact matches

One - in - four of Americans struggles to get to sleep or stay asleep, according to pollsters, and the CDC claims an equally large percentage of us fail to get even six hours of sleep a night.

Avoiding burnout has nothing to do with making sure you eat three square meals a day or get eight hours of sleep a night.

The National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults get 7 - 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep per night for optimal health and well - bSleep Foundation recommends that adults get 7 - 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep per night for optimal health and well - bsleep per night for optimal health and well - being.

While it's recommended that people get seven to nine hours of sleep every night, it turns out there's a sweet spot when it comes to getting the right amount of sleep to put you at your happiest.

A recent survey found that people who identified as «perfectly happy» got seven hours and six minutes of sleep every night.

«While we are in production on Scorpion,» Robert says, «I average five hours of sleep a night.

Insider Picks senior editor Ellen Hoffman experienced the adaptability personally: «The first night I slept on my Casper pillow I started out on my left side, then moved onto my back some hours later, and ultimately woke up on my right side staring into the face of my very hungry cat.

Indeed, researchers have found that getting five or fewer hours of sleep five nights in a row has an impact on memory, attention and speed of thinking equivalent to being legally drunk.

She rotates her sleep schedule around U.S. time, often working in the wee hours of the night.

The National Institute of Health says adults need seven to eight hours of sleep a night.

While running her first company — Coutorture, a fashion and lifestyle ad network she started at age 22 and sold two years later — a typical day involved 12 hours at the office, followed by a night of schmoozing at industry events and a scant four hours of sleep.

«I also make sure I get at least seven hours of sleep every night and do yoga twice a week on my rooftop at sunrise.

We've been sold on a heroic ideal of the uber - man and super-women who kill themselves saying yes to everyone, sleeping four hours a night and straining to fit everything in.

Though some will find this step easier than others, it's highly beneficial to get at least eight hours of sleep every night, with minimal interruption and a consistent pattern of sleeping and wakefulness.

Ultimately the researchers found that the people who slept six hours a night or less were four times more likely to contract a cold compared to those who got seven hours of sleep or more.

Another study found that when people slept under six hours a night for a prolonged period of time, they ended up, in cognitive terms, legally drunk.

Even for the six - hour group, the cognitive deficits were equivalent to two nights of complete sleep deprivation.

According to the study of 715 parents, every hour of touchscreen use results in 15.6 minutes less of sleep, or 26.4 minutes less total per night and 10.8 minutes more during the day, on average.

Even chronic partial - sleep loss of four to seven hours a night over several nights (not just total sleep deprivation) is associated with these side effects.

It's Sunday, the last day of Governors Ball's weekend - long run, and Russell has slept nine hours in the past three nights.

So people who have been scraping by on a few hours of sleep a night might not be in as good as shape as they would like to believe.

Her advice for anyone looking to avoid burnout is to unplug from their phone, get seven to nine hours of sleep each night, eat breakfast every morning and to take a break during the workday.

Many of us get about an hour to an hour and a half less sleep per night than we need... Naps of 90 to 120 minutes usually comprise all stages, including REM and deep slow - wave sleep, which helps to clear your mind, improve memory recall, and recoup lost sleep....

And depending on how your body works, it might need as little as six hours of sleep per night.

Attempt to get at least 7 hours of sleep per night with the goal of going to bed and getting up at the same time each day.

The number of hours each person needs to feel his or her best varies, but try to get at least 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep each night.

Sleep deprivation (even just getting less than six hours a night) is a kind of chronic stress that impairs how the body and brain use energy.

Studies have shown that getting between 7 - 9 hours of sleep per night relieves stress, reduces the risk of chronic diseases and even helps muscles and the brain repair and restore proper function.

«The night of sleep we were hoping for turned into a few meager hours before we rushed into the office to add capacity to the service,» he wrote on the company blog.

The participants were studied after a week of nine hours of sleep a night and then after a week of four hours of sleep a night.

And if you're wondering how much sleep is enough, here's a rough guide: One of the most acclaimed sleep researchers, Daniel Kripke, found in a recent study that «people who sleep between 6.5 hours and 7.5 hours a night, live the longest, are happier, and most productive.»

If you spent 60 working — more than the vast majority of people — and slept 8 hours per night (56 per week) that would leave 52 hours for other things.

Those tough nights of two to three hours of sleep are now far behind me.

If I can't get at least three hours of sleep, my time is better spent powering up with a meal and working through the night.

(Spieth prefers at least eight hours of sleep each night).

The average adult needs seven to nine hours of sleep per night, yet most of us fail to reach even the lower end of that scale.

When you split that time into three buckets of 56, you have 56 hours for sleep (8 hours a night), 56 hours for work (8 hours a day plus some evening / weekend time), and one big free 56 hour bucket leftover.

Shave off just an hour of sleep a night, and in a couple weeks» time you'll have accumulated a «sleep debt» guaranteed to sap your creativity, stunt your productivity, and make you grumpy to boot.

For Orr, the balancing act doesn't necessarily mean working fewer hours (he typically gets about four hours of sleep a night), but working different hours.

So, while I don't cut corners when it comes to taking care of myself, I do skimp on sleep, getting about 4 to 6 hours a night.

It may not seem like much, but by the end of the month, you'll be getting an extra half hour of sleep per night.

Getting seven to nine hours of sleep per night allows your body and mind to function optimally.

You've heard the story before — the one about the entrepreneur who stays up all night, sleeps less than four hours, then gets up at the crack of dawn to crush another 80 - hour workweek.

Doctors recommend eight solid hours of sleep each night, but workers aren't clocking in.

Shoot for an average of six to seven hours of sleep per night — the optimal amount for weight control.

And instead of waking every few hours to have his finger pricked, he sleeps through the night.

Cuban says he gets by on six hours of sleep a night, though seven is ideal, and he's always down for a good nap particularly if he is traveling.

«Research shows that insomniacs are notoriously bad at estimating their sleep, and frequently underreport the hours of shuteye they get each night,» Goldhill also notes.