# Do you really need 8 hours of sleep every night?

- 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](https://www.ted.com/talks/jen_gunter_do_you_really_need_8_hours_of_sleep_every_night)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.)

## Lectures

1. [Do you really need 8 hours of sleep every night?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jen_gunter_do_you_really_need_8_hours_of_sleep_every_night/735cc4b20eff), 4 min (TED's player)