Is 6 Hours of Sleep Enough? A Short Video by The Wall Street Journal

Is 6 hours of sleep enough if you want to be healthy? Here are 4 key takeaways from this video:

  1. Most people need 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night (National Sleep Foundation).
  2. 30% (40.6M) of workers are getting 6 hours or less hours per night of sleep (Center of Disease Control).
  3. Sleep-deprived American workers ultimately cost their employers $63 billion in lost productivity (2011 Harvard Medical School study).
  4. Insomniacs lose about 7.8 days of productivity per year. No higher levels of absenteeism but have lower levels of “presenteeism, which is when you come to work but are not operating at peak performance.

 

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Published by Dan

is passionate about food, movement, and sleep. Interested in developing low-cost, high value health solutions. Also interested in anthropology, evolutionary biology, exercise and inactivity physiology, cognition, neuroeconomics, decision making, circadian biology, epistemology, gastronomy, food culture and politics, agriculture, sustainable practices, and dogs. Activities include mountain biking, CrossFit, hiking, dancing, and long walks with my headphones.