Is it true that men fall asleep faster than women? Two doctors settle the debate

A woman looking over at her husband who is fast asleep in shock at how quickly he has fallen asleep, under a striped blanket.

Just last night I was lying next to my husband thinking “how does he drop off so quickly?”

And after speaking to female friends and family, they’ve often wondered the same thing about their male partners — shocked to feel them twitching in their sleep when just a few minutes before they were chatting away.