Do you really need 8 hours of sleep every night? | Jen Gunter

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🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

When you can't sleep, you're desperate for help. And there's a booming industry waiting to tell you all the ways a lack of sleep can ruin your health -- and to sell you fancy gadgets to help you finally doze off. Shedding light on this flawed doomsday messaging, Dr. Jen Gunter explains why you shouldn't lose sleep over sleep -- and what to do instead. (For more on how your body works, tune in to her podcast, Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter, from the TED Audio Collective.)

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hume.
0:07.0	How is your sleep?
0:08.8	Are you getting enough of it?
0:11.2	Dr. Jen Gunter says the messaging we get about trying to achieve perfect sleep might be
0:16.2	going overboard.
0:17.8	She offers some tips for the sleep deprived and the sleep anxious in today's episode of
0:22.2	Body Stuff.
0:23.2	It's from a video spin-off of Dr. Jen's popular podcast of the same name, which you
0:27.6	might have heard right here.
0:29.1	If you enjoy it, you can watch more episodes at TED.com slash body stuff.
0:36.1	Support for Ted Talks Daily comes from AirBnB.
0:39.0	Okay, every time you stay at an AirBnB, do you ever wonder, could my place at home actually
0:45.0	be an AirBnB?
0:46.0	Could I rent it out?
0:47.5	And if I could, what would it earn?
0:49.6	I think about this sometimes, myself.
0:52.1	So I was pretty surprised to hear about Lucy and Worcestershire, who realized she could
0:57.1	convert her empty barn space into a one bedroom AirBnB.
1:01.5	How creative, right?
1:02.7	Now her extra income allows her to focus on her family as a new mom.
1:07.0	Find out what your place could be earning at airbnb.co.uk slash host.
1:14.8	Sleep is so important.
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