Expert: Seven Hours of Sleep is the Best Amount for your Health

Nowadays, schedules seem to be getting more hectic and our lives are busier. How many of us haven’t complained about needing more sleep?

Shawn Youngstedt, a professor at Arizona State University who studies sleep duration, has concluded that seven hours is the best for our health. Any more than eight, would be hazardous. 

According to the Daily Mail, the expert claims that the “lowest mortality and morbidity is with seven hours.” Those who sleep less than that, have memory and decision problems in their daily routines. 

People who slept in Stone-Age-Like conditions only got 7.2 hours of sleep.

Just last month a study of almost 9,000 people found those aged 50 to 64 who slept for less than six hours a night – or more than eight – had worse memories and decision-making abilities.

But brain power was only reduced for older adults of 65 to 89 if they slept too long, say the University of Warwick researchers.