{"id":588578,"date":"2026-08-18T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/588578\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:42:11","slug":"put-it-to-bed-decade-old-sleep-recommendations-still-sound-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/588578\/","title":{"rendered":"Put it to bed: Decade-old sleep recommendations still sound, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting enough sleep is an age-old foundation for good health. Now, a new analysis shows that long-standing recommended sleep ranges have stood the test of time.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the National Sleep Foundation recently examined more than 3,200 sleep-related studies published since the organization released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com\/13764-how-much-sleep-should-you-get-experts-expand-recommendations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">updated<\/a> sleep recommendations in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The findings? \u201cA decade of new science continues to support the original recommendations,\u201d the researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>NSF affirms the suggested nightly sleep ranges for nine age groups:<\/p>\n<p>Newborns (ages 0-3 months): 14 to 17 hours daily<br \/>\nInfants (4-11 months): 12 to 15 hours<br \/>\nToddlers (1-2 years): 11 to 14 hours<br \/>\nPreschoolers (3-5): 10 to 13 hours<br \/>\nSchool-age children (6-13): nine to 11 hours<br \/>\nTeens (14-17): eight to 10 hours<br \/>\nYoung adults (18-25): seven to nine hours<br \/>\nAdults (26-64): seven to nine hours<br \/>\nOlder adults (65 and older): seven to eight hours<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis review shows the core message remains unchanged: Getting the right amount of sleep is essential for health,\u201d said Joseph Dzierzewski, lead study author and NSF senior vice president of research and scientific affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The study was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleephealthjournal.org\/article\/S2352-7218(26)00106-3\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">published<\/a> in the journal Sleep Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getting enough sleep is an age-old foundation for good health. Now, a new analysis shows that long-standing recommended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46,266352,4788,138265],"class_list":["post-588578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-national-sleep-foundation","tag-sleep","tag-sleep-wake-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}