Forget 8 hours — new research reveals how much sleep adults really need

When it comes to sleep, is eight hours really the magic number? While adequate rest is undoubtedly an important component of human health, how much sleep we need isn’t necessarily the same for everyone. A new review from Brain Medicine challenges the notion that all adults require eight hours of sleep per night to be healthy. While adequate rest is undoubtedly an important component of human health, how much sleep we need isn’t necessarily the same for everyone. StockPhotoPro – stock.adobe.com “Human sleep patterns in pre-industrial societies exhibit substantial flexibility, suggesting that contemporary norms of consolidated nocturnal sleep are not evolutionarily fixed,” according to the authors. In other words, healthy sleep patterns can vary from person to person — and history supports t