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Is sleeping for only 4 hours a day bad?

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Dr. Ravi Chand answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Sleep: Most studies recommend to sleep between 6 to 8 hours, if you have always been a short sleeper you should be fine unless this is a new change, genetically there can be short and long sleepers out of the mean standard deviation.

Answered 8/22/2013

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