How many hours does the average person sleep normally?
(1) Children and adolescents: 9-10 hours a day
Children and adolescents in the growth and development stage usually need at least 9 hours of sleep a day, and should follow the principle of going to bed early and getting up early to ensure that they enter a deep sleep around 3 o'clock at night.
(2) Middle-aged people: about 7-8 hours a day
Adult men need an average of 6.49 hours of sleep, while women need about 7.5 hours, rounding up to 7-8 hours each.
(3) Elderly people over 60 years old: 5.5 to 7 hours a day.
Compared with the elderly who sleep more than 9 hours a day and not sleep enough, 7 hours a day is the most ideal. The elderly generally go to bed before 12 o'clock and wake up naturally until around dawn.
2. Does sleeping 5 hours a day affect your health?
(1) Easy to become ugly, lack of sleep is easy to look dull, charm is greatly reduced, loss of affinity, lack of sleep will accelerate skin aging.
(2) It is more susceptible to colds, and sleeping less than 7 hours a night will hurt the immune system, resulting in a 3-fold increase in the risk of colds.
(3) It is easier to lose control of emotions, and a night of lack of sleep will lead to more active brain regions responsible for emotional management, which indicates that lack of sleep is easy to lose control of emotions.
(4) It is easy to overeat, and short-term lack of sleep is more likely to overeat, and they prefer to eat high-calorie and high-carbohydrate foods and eat more greasy.
3. What are the benefits of adequate sleep?
(1) Increase immunity
Ensuring adequate sleep every day can increase the body's immunity and resistance, so ensuring adequate sleep is more effective and safer than eating drugs that enhance human immunity.
(2) Promote the secretion of growth hormone
Ensuring adequate sleep can be a good way to promote the secretion of hormones in the body, only in deep sleep, the human brain can synthesize auxin to promote the growth and development of the body, the secretion of auxin is an important factor in the growth of children.
(3) Promote metabolism
To ensure adequate sleep is very important, the skin is generally the most active at night, but also the best time to speed up metabolism, blood supply is also the most adequate time to sleep, it can prevent and delay aging, so that the skin is smooth, rosy, elastic.