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Sleep is still a mystery, despite how critical it is for our health.“The reasons aren’t entirely clear, but it’s an essential thing that we all do,” said Dr. Rafael Pelayo, a sleep specialist at Stanford University. “Something remarkable happens when you sleep. It’s the most natural form of self-care that we have.”
Most of the population gets between seven to nine hours — and that particular category has the lowest association with health problems, said Molly Atwood, a behavioral sleep medicine clinician at Johns Hopkins.Once people either dip into less than six hours of sleep or get more than nine hours on average, the risk of health problems inches up, Atwood said, but everybody is different.When you’re trying to figure out how much sleep you need, it’s important to think about the quality of it, Pelayo said: “What you really want to do is wake up feeling refreshed — that’s what it’s about.”
“If somebody tells me that they sleep many hours but they wake up tired, something is wrong,” Pelayo said. “You shouldn’t leave your favorite restaurant feeling hungry.”The amount of sleep we need changes throughout our lives. Newborns need the most — somewhere between 14 to 17 hours.
“Definitely when we’re babies and children, because we are growing so rapidly, we do need a lot more sleep,” Atwood said.
The National Sleep Foundation recommends most adults between 26 and 64 get between seven to nine hours of sleep. People who are 65 and older can get slightly less, and young adults between ages 16 and 25 can get slightly more.The Cubs grabbed control with four runs in the third. Kyle Tucker doubled and scored on Crow-Armstrong’s two-out single. Swanson added an RBI double before Busch connected for his eighth homer, driving a changeup deep to right-center.
Busch also hit a two-out RBI single off Brent Suter in the fifth. Crow-Armstrong singled and stole second before Busch delivered.The Cubs finished the game without Tucker, who was removed after four innings because of
The Reds were limited to four hits after they had one in. Third baseman Santiago Espinal and left fielder Will Benson each committed an error in the seventh, helping the Cubs score two unearned runs.