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18th March 2017
06:50pm GMT

"The more of your brain you use during the day, the more of it that needs to recover and, consequently, the more sleep you need. “Women tend to multi-task — they do lots at once and are flexible — and so they use more of their actual brain than men do. Because of that, their sleep need is greater."
Horne, who has a vast knowledge of all thing sleep having edited the Journal of Sleep Research for fifteen years, said that on average, females need twenty minutes more sleep but this can vary from woman to woman.
The sleep expert also pointed out that men whose jobs involve "decision-making and lateral thinking” are also likely to need more sleep.
Horne's research, which focused on 210 middle-aged men and women, was originally released in 2010 but to be fair, this is research we'll be referring to again and again.
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