The Myth of the 8-Hour Sleep (Part 2): How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need?

Eight hours was never meant to be a universal prescription. It's a loose average drawn from a wide range factors. And treating it as a hard and fast rule to meet every single night can actually work against your sleep (no matter the amount) rather than for it…
…Hitting the bullseye for our personal best sleep amount is tough. If we wanted to be a bit cliche, we might say that it’s more of an art than a science. Not just because it’s necessarily difficult to pin point, but because it changes over time—both as we progress through life, but also from day to day based on activity, health, stress, and more.