National Sleep Foundation changes recommended snooze time

The National Sleep Foundation has revamped its recommendations for the way we recharge.

The non-profit scientific foundation, along with a panel of experts, updated its nightly sleep duration advice for all ages in a report published Feb. 2 in Sleep Health: The Official Journal of the National Sleep Foundation.

For most age groups, that includes widening the recommended duration for sleep. Here's the breakdown:

Newborn (0-3 months): 14-17 hours (previously: 12-18 hours)

Infant (4-11 months): 12-15 hours (previously: 14-15 hours)

Toddler (1-2 years): 11-14 hours (previously: 12-14 hours)

Preschooler (3-5 years): 10-13 hours (previously: 11-13 hours)

School-age child (6-13 years): 9-11 hours (previously: 10-11 hours)

Teen (14-17 years): 8-10 hours (previously: 8½-9½ hours)

Young adult (18-25 years): 7-9 hours (new category)

Adult (26-64 years): 7-9 hours (no change)

Older adult (65+ years): 7-8 hours (new category)

These new recommendations were the result of "multiple rounds of consensus voting after a comprehensive review of published scientific studies on sleep and health," according to the release.

The panel included six sleep experts as well as experts from several other medical associations including the American Neurological Association, American Academy of Pediatrics and American Physiological Society, totaling 18 people. Researchers also reviewed more than 300 sleep studies to reach consensus.

"This is the first time that any professional organization has developed age-specific recommended sleep durations based on a rigorous, systematic review of the world scientific literature relating sleep duration to health, performance and safety," Charles Czeisler, chairman of the board of the National Sleep Foundation, said in a statement.

Happy sleeping!

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