How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?

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Nov. 30, 2010 — Did you need an alarm clock to wake up this morning? If you did, you probably didn’t get enough sleep last night.

A new paper published by the National Sleep Foundation suggests that although there is no one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to how much sleep adults need, there are ways to tell if you are not getting sufficient sleep, such as a reliance on an alarm clock.

“We are all different,” says report author Michael H. Bonnet, PhD, a professor of neurology at Wright State University School of Medicine and the director of sleep laboratory at the Dayton Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Ohio. “You need enough sleep so you can awaken feeling refreshed without an alarm clock.”

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