{"id":15137,"date":"2020-07-28T18:52:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=15137"},"modified":"2020-07-28T18:52:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T18:52:12","slug":"men-sleep-better-than-women-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/sleep\/men-sleep-better-than-women-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Sleep Better Than Women: Here\u2019s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women are jealous of men\u2019s ability to fall right asleep. To women, it feels like the second a dude puts his head on a pillow, he\u2019s out. Nothing keeps you up; not work problems, meal plans, or grocery lists. For men, all of the day\u2019s worries just slip away as soon as their horizontal. It\u2019s like magic, really.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, what gives? What kind of superpower do men have when it comes to sleep? Here\u2019s why men sleep better:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><b>Men don\u2019t do a daily replay<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women tend to replay the day\u2019s event and worry about certain details that came up. Maybe the kids didn\u2019t play well together or maybe she\u2019s concerned about a big project she\u2019s managing at work, either way, these things plague women at night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA theory we have is that women tend to ruminate about things a little bit more than men do. Women worry and think about what\u2019s happened during the day, and they\u2019re not able to let things go,\u201d said Helen Driver, a Kingston, Ont.-based sleep researcher and president of the Canadian Sleep Society.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><b>Men don\u2019t have to deal with hormones<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For women, their reproductive cycles can alter their hormones and interrupt sleep. Obviously, this isn\u2019t a problem for men.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWomen are more prone to having poor sleep around menstruation, during pregnancy, and during menopause,\u201d Driver says. \u201cHormones can alter sleeping patterns.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Men exercise outside more<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Getting some exercise outside helps set your circadian clock, and it tires you out. Men tend to get outside exercise more often, which aids in their ability to fall right asleep.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research proves men do sleep better than women, and even fall asleep faster. Remember, if your partner is having sleep problems, try to be supportive. It\u2019s not easy to function without a good night\u2019s sleep.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women are jealous of men\u2019s ability to fall right asleep. To women, it feels like the second a dude puts his head on a pillow, he\u2019s out. Nothing keeps you up; not work problems, meal plans, or grocery lists. For men, all of the day\u2019s worries just slip away as soon as their horizontal. It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[1228,693],"class_list":["post-15137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleep","tag-men-sleep","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}