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Getting a good night's sleep: Fact vs. fiction

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    Dr. Siegel on medical myths

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Well weeks and as 13 of our lives -- sleep but that doesn't mean that we're very good added doctor Marc Siegel -- medical -- team is here to tell us what's fact and -- out right fiction when it comes to getting a good night's rest and we all need to know about that so.

First -- they actually need seven to eight hours of sleep per night is that true.

That's a fact that now sleep foundation says we need that much sleep and if we're children we need more than that actually teens need eight and a half to nine hours of sleep -- night.

They don't get it and we don't get enough sleep we were put -- at risk of certain diseases weight gain diabetes heart disease in case of these kids not functioning.

And as well at school I've got to sleep I'm in bad trouble then.

A -- -- number two Mitt or are fact that exercise helps you sleep.

That's actually true a study from northwestern shows that exercise if you do it at the right time of the day improves obviously.

People that we're sedentary suddenly started to exercise that put him in the study did aerobic exercise they slept better.

Discipline proves it helps to -- the right hormones for sleep in the brain get a regular daily earlier in the air later in the day.

I think it's earlier in the at a variety of it's too close to bedtime -- -- impact going to sleep.

A -- about forty seconds left most couples have similar sleep habits and that tree that's absolutely fiction.

But you know what's interesting about this when you get married you don't know what you're that you don't choose a partner based on how they sleep but when you're in the relationship.

Women control sleep.

And women tend to go to sleep earlier than men so men have to comply.

And -- I happen to know that I have -- being married as a guy that's something we're told about an advance.

There are there issues like snoring people don't necessarily sleep well together even if they get -- I like ended on that it -- in control everything right.

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