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Do you really need 8 hours of sleep? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We all know a good night’s sleep is essential, but for many people, sleeping well (or falling asleep at all) can be difficult and even stressful – and there’s no shortage of tales about what prevents people from catching their ZZZs. In this episode of Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter, Dr. Jen digs into "how to sleep'' culture – from blue light blockers to sleep hygiene enthusiasts, to the 8 hours a night rule to… witches?! Don’t sleep on this episode–because it might just have you skipping the melatonin supplements and rethinking sleep rituals – before jumping into bed for a well-deserved snooze. Read the full transcript for this episode at https://go.ted.com/BSTscript11

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0:38.7

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1:02.4

I'm looking at my bedside table, and I have one, two, I have three eye masks.

1:05.7

I have some melatonin.

1:09.1

I have some xalpidem in case of emergencies.

1:13.0

I have a bag full of earplugs. I fear to not be a great sleeper. This is our editor, Sarah. Lately, I wake up in the middle of the night and I lie in my

1:18.3

bed and I think, am I sleeping? Am I sleeping now? Should I be sleeping? I should be sleeping. Am I

1:23.2

sleeping? The anxiety can absolutely take over and then it's like a rock rolling down a hill.

1:30.1

So why did you start worrying about your sleep? You know what might have started me getting

1:35.0

stressed out about sleep a little bit? I had like many people a fit bit some number of years ago

1:42.1

and it had a kind of sleep monitoring aspect where it would tell

1:46.7

you like how you were sleeping and how you had slept. I do think sometimes I woke up and felt like

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