Women need more sleep than men because women produce all of their hormones at night, but GP and menopause specialist Dr Aoife Nic Shamhráin debunks this assertion Women can experience more fractured sleep than men at certain stages of their menstrual cycle. sleeping for less than six hours per night increases your risk of heart disease by 20pc. Even more concerning is the revelation that extreme sleep deprivation increases a person’s likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes to about the same extent as being overweight or having a family history of the disease. While this data is alarming enough on its own, I recently stumbled upon an X post which, if accurate, suggests that sleeping for less than nine to 10 hours could be potentially catastrophic for women, but not for men.
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Friday, June 27, 2025