Sleep plays an important role in your health, and a lack of quality sleep has been linked to an increased risk for many different health problems, which is why supporting your sleep is so vital.

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Today, we're excited to talk to Eliza Bacote

about what you can do to support your sleep every day. And if you're interested in any of the

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Eliza, thank you so much for sitting down with us today.

Hi, Annie.

Thank you so much for having me here.

I'm so excited to talk about this really important topic.

Yes, it is so important.

So let's just dive right in.

Can you tell us what the current recommendations are for nightly sleep?

Sure. So sleep is so important, as we know, from young age up into the elderly age range.

But typically if we're talking about adults, we recommend seven to nine hours, most organizations

do, including the CDC. But really I like to tell

people, you really want to stick to that eight hour range. Now, when we're talking about teenagers

and school-aged children, they really need a couple more hours than that. So typically

school age, we say nine to 11 and teens about eight to 10. And when we get down to under five years old, they each have

their own little time frame of sleep that they need depending on their developmental age.

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