Eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist

Re:Eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading ... by thrav on Sunday June 17, 2018 @03:01AM (#17331219)

I’m the same way. Exercise and eating healthy just makes my body want even less sleep. When I’m firing on all cylinders, eating right and working out, I can get away with 5.5-6 and feel better than I ever do trying to push up past 7 by going back to sleep in the morning.

I my experience, the most important thing is, wake up when you wake up. Don’t go back to sleep because you feel like you should, or the alarm has 20 more minutes. If you’re awake, get moving.

I feel like going back down signals to my body that this is going to be a lazy day and it should settle in, instead of firing up all systems.

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Re:Eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading ... by watwut on Sunday June 17, 2018 @04:16AM (#17331420)

How much do you exercise? Because when I exercise to the point that I am really tired, sweating and have sore muscles next day, I sleep more then normally. The theories I read on internet seem to confirm the same - your body rebuilds when you sleep, exercise is sort of damaging it (it is damage good for you, but I dont know better term), so if you exercise you should sleep more.

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Re:Eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading ... by psychedelic on Sunday June 17, 2018 @08:00AM (#17332006)

You have asked the correct question. "Exercise" is a wide spectrum of intensity levels and energy expenditure depending on who is exercising and for what reason. If you are training like an athlete then 8 hours of sleep usually isn't enough.

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