How Much Sleep Do You Need?
3rd August 2014
Steve Sailer points out some inconvenient truth.
A general prejudice in health journalism is that everybody is the same, so the reason medical research hasn’t yet come up with definitive answers to questions like what kind of diet should you follow or how much sleep should you get isn’t because different people need different things. Sure, that might make sense, but that’s not Science. Instead, Science is when there’s just one answer.
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Personally, I’m not sure I believe that “oversleeping” really exists. I hear people all the time say that they feel lousy because they slept too much. If I sleep 10 hours and I’m still tired, it’s not because I slept too much but because I needed to sleep 12. But you may well be different.