Only 3% of people are able to feel normal, if not sleep more than 6 hours a day Bashny.Net

Sleep is influenced by two factors: age and genetika



Sleep - something purely individual, so that the sleep time for which a person is fully poured, also depends on the person. There are two factors that affect the sleep time: according to research by scientists from the Department of Medicine at the Harvard School, is the age and genetics.

Genetics not only affects how much sleep you need, but also the structure of sleep and wake-up time as well as your preferences for certain tasks at different times of the day. Most adults need about eight hours of sleep a night, and a very small percentage of people (about 3%) can be productive during the day, emptying the entire six hours - that they owe to their genetics.

Generally, the older you get, the less you need to sleep. We give a short list of how many hours on average to sleep people of different ages:

• neonates (from one month to two) - 10, 5 to 18 hours;
• infants (three to 11 months) - from 10 to 14 hours;
• small children (from one year to three years) - from 12 to 14 hours;
• children of preschool age (three to five years) - from 12 minute to 14 hours;
• children (five to 12 years) - from 10 to 11 hours;
• teenagers (from 12 to 18 ti s) - 8, 5 to 9, 5:00;
• adults (from 18 years up to the end of life) - from 7, 5 to 8, 5:00.
  via factroom.ru