{"id":28044,"date":"2016-08-13T09:08:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=28044"},"modified":"2016-08-13T09:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:08:44","slug":"women-need-more-sleep-brains-work-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/women-need-more-sleep-brains-work-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Finds Women Need More Sleep Because Their Brains Work Harder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Research\u00a0has<\/em> been able to prove is that women have more complex brain activity than men.<\/p>\n A new study<\/a> from England\u2019s Loughborough University reveals that women are multi-taskers, meaning they require higher amounts of brain activity and use more regions of the brain than men do, resulting in\u00a0a\u00a0greater overall need for sleep.<\/p>\n According to sleep expert and researcher John Horne:<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the major functions of sleep is to allow the\u00a0brain to recover and repair itself. 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The study found that women need about 20 minutes more sleep<\/a> than men per night. It went on to say that a man that has a mentally demanding job, one requiring lots of lateral thinking tasks and decision making, will need more sleep than the average male, though\u00a0still not as much as a woman.<\/p>\n Women need more sleep than men because their brains are wired differently<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So what\u2019s the difference<\/a>?<\/p>\n