Hi there, it's Matt here and welcome back to the podcast and welcome back to another AMA episode,

Ask Me Anything episode. I am, as always, joined by the extraordinary, the first rate, the marvelous,

the outstanding, the world-class entity.

That is Dr. Eti Ben-Simon.

Eti, welcome back.

You're too kind, Matt.

Only truths.

Okay, so I think we have had once again a lot of interest, a lot of questions, and I will just let you take the wheel and drive.

Off you go.

Wonderful.

Yeah, we have a great set of questions today.

And the first question is about the major differences in sleep between men and women.

Is it true that women require more sleep? And if so, why is that? Oh, great questions. So there are definitely some fascinating

differences in sleep between males and females. Sleep, as everyone knows from this podcast, it's a fundamental physiological process,

and your sleep is going to be shaped by various factors, factors including age, lifestyle factors,

environmental factors, things like temperature, and your genetics, for example, too. But an often overlooked influence is

the biological factor of sex and the sex of an individual. And here, as it's done in biology,

I'll refer to that as male or female. So let me address whether or not females require more

sleep than males. And I'll try to break it

down into sort of big picture structures of sleep, such as sleep duration, sleep quality, and then

we'll go into detail into the architecture of sleep. So sleep duration, there have been lots of

studies now showing that reliably on, females will sleep slightly longer than males.

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