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Do you really need 8 hours of sleep every night?

Jen Gunter · TED

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About

When you can't sleep, you're desperate for help. And there's a booming industry waiting to tell you all the ways a lack of sleep can ruin your health -- and to sell you fancy gadgets to help you finally doze off. Shedding light on this flawed doomsday messaging, Dr. Jen Gunter explains why you shouldn't lose sleep over sleep -- and what to do instead. (For more on how your body works, tune in to her podcast, Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter, from the TED Audio Collective.)

The talk

  1. Do you really need 8 hours of sleep every night? 4 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter
Speaker
Jen Gunter
Year
2022
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Business and management
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
Who can watch
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