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Re:Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research by mrfusion on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:15PM (#24183220)
> I now can’t sleep for more than 5 hours a night without waking up and not being able to go back to sleep for an hour or two.

Have you ruled out alcohol? I’ve heard drinking at night can cause that.

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Re:Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research by edoceo on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:55AM (#24184391)
Other sugars too, the blood-sugar drop signals wake up and eat. iIRC
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Re:Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research by IgorPartola on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:47PM (#24183398)
I don’t drink most days, and if I do I don’t get drunk except maybe once a year.
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Re:Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research by throwaway0a5e on Monday August 17, 2020 @08:31AM (#24186572)
>Have you ruled out alcohol? I’ve heard drinking at night can cause that.

For the over whelming majority of homo-sapiens alcohol tends to increase, not decrease, the propensity to sleep for many hours. Sure there's edge cases but they're rare enough and hard enough to differentiate from other problems that nobody should be trying to diagnose those over the internet.

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Re:Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research by mrfusion on Monday August 17, 2020 @08:56AM (#24186758)
I was surprised to learn the opposite:

https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20130118/alcohol-...

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