According to the organization’s new recommendations, you should be getting seven to nine hours of sleep. If you’re like most people, you fall shy of that target: Americans average only 6.8 hours per night, a recent Gallup poll finds.
“If getting enough sleep isn’t possible, then napping is the next best thing,” says Abid Malik, M.D., medical director of the Sleep Disorder Center at Orlando Health-South Seminole Hospital.