Healthy sleep takes place in four stages per sleep cycle, but which is the best sleep stage overall and why? When we talk about how much quality sleep we’re getting, we tend to focus on the number of hours’ we’ve clocked up each night, but sleep stages are vital to this conversation.
Of course it’s important to have an idea of how many hours you’re getting and most of adults need between seven to nine hours a night. But sleep duration is just one aspect that dictates the quality of our sleep, much like whether or not we're sleeping on the best mattress for our body and sleeping position. In fact, restorative slumber is really all down to the relationship between several key sleep stages that our bodies’ cycle through during the night.
