Everything we’ve been told is a lie. Sort of.
A new study from the University of California has revealed that actually, we probably don’t need eight hours of sleep every night to be our best selves.
Scientists studied the sleeping habits of people on a more natural sleeping schedule, free of all the bits of modern life that might be disrupting how much sleep we feel we need.
They studied people of The San, of Namibia, the Hadza, of Tanzania and the Tsimane, of Bolivia, strapping sleep-analysing onto their wrists to measure time spent sleeping.
The majority of the people studied slept for less than seven hours a night. The… Read the full story