Hi there it's Matt here and welcome back to the podcast and welcome back to

another of those Hot Off the Press episodes.

And here, as you'll remember,

we dive into some of the latest and greatest

and especially striking new sleep science.

This week, our topic is all about catch-up sleep and whether or not

weekend catch-up sleep actually works. Now if you've been following the

podcast for a while you'll have heard me state that the recommended

amount of sleep for the average adult and this is described by the CDC and other organizations

like it is somewhere between 7 to 9 hours each night.

Now you'll notice the word each at the end of that sentence because for so many understandable reasons including

work schedules and kids and work stress many individuals fail to get the minimum of seven hours of sleep each and every night,

especially during the week.

And we see this time and time again across all of our studies and large survey evaluations throughout most industrialized

nations across the globe. When it comes to human sleep, people tend to short sleep during the week, and then they try to long sleep at the weekend.

And it doesn't seem to matter whether you are inherently a short sleeper or not,

if you are a napa, if you're a morning type

or an evening type, most people seem to engage

in sleep less during the week and more during the weekend.

Now I'm sure this is no surprise to you this idea that people sleep shorter amounts

during the week and then sleep longer amounts during the weekend.

And I'm also sure that you understand why this is happening biologically.

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