Here’s How Much Sleep You Need

Source, by Elahe Izadi 

Sleep is glorious and many of us feel like we aren’t getting enough of it.

Well, now you have a chart to consult! Just turn to the National Sleep Foundation’s newly released set of recommendations for various points of life, sleep-duration numbers that were developed after an extensive review of past scientific literature and input from a variety medical professionals. The recommendations for age categories from newborns to older adults were published this week in the foundation’s journal Sleep Health.

Here are their recommended sleep times:

• Zero to three months of age: 14 to 17 hours
• Four to 11 months of age: 12 to 15 hours
• One to two years of age: 11 to 14 hours
• Three to five years of age: 10 to 13 hours
• Six to 13 years of age: nine to 11 hours
• 14 to 17 years of age: eight to 10 hours
• 18 to 25 years of age: seven to nine hours
• 26 to 64 years of age: seven to nine hours
• 65 and older: seven to eight hours