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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6357837" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kim-kardashian" source="Orion">Kim Kardashian</keyword> says she gets up at 5:30am daily for a workout after just five hours of <keyword id="11903517" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sleep" source="Orion">sleep</keyword>.</li><li>Some other highly successful people, like Martha Stewart and Jack Dorsey, get little shut-eye. </li></ul><p>After a lifetime of self-proclaimed people-pleasing, Kim Kardashian has declared her 40s the decade she puts herself first. </p><p>"My 40s are about being Team Me," the 41-year-old TV star, model, entrepreneur, aspiring lawyer, and mom of four told Jen Wang for <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/kim-kardashian-cover-march-2022">Vogue's February cover story</a>. </p><p>"I'm going to eat well. I'm going to work out. I'm going to have more fun, spend more time with my kids and the people who make me happy," she continued. "I'm going to put my phone down. Unfollow if I don't want to see something on Instagram." </p><p>But getting more sleep is not in Kardashian's plan. "Living her life means eating plant-based and rising daily for a 5:30 AM workout — typically after only five hours of sleep, Kim's baseline to function," Wang wrote. </p><p>While sleep experts say, and research shows, most people need between seven and nine hours of sleep a night for <a href="https://newatlas.com/optimal-sleep-duration-cognitive-performance/56723">optimal cognitive performance</a> and <a href="https://www.webmd.com/beauty/features/beauty-sleep">even beauty</a>, Kardashian's minimalism in that department is shared by many of fellow rich and famous. </p><h2>Some successful people sleep less to work more</h2><p><a href="https://www.sleepassociation.org/about-sleep/what-is-sleep/">The American Sleep Association</a> says most adults need seven to nine hours of sleep nightly for optimal <keyword id="11894571" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="health" source="Orion">health</keyword>. <keyword id="12698157" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sleep-deprivation" source="Orion">Sleep deprivation</keyword>, by contrast, is linked to decreased concentration, memory impairment, a lack of cell growth and repair (which in turn negatively affects your appearance), and in some animals even a shorter lifespan. </p><p>But some people seem to be outliers, whether they sleep less to work more or simply find they can function well without much shut-eye. </p><p>Donald Trump, for one, has boasted of getting just three to four hours of a sleep a night, while Martha Stewart says she gets four, and Jack Dorsey says he gets four to six, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-sleep-successful-people-get-2017-8">Insider previously reported</a>. Like Kardashian, Dorsey's 5:30 am alarm is reportedly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-morning-routine-experiment-2016-7">set to squeeze in a jog.</a></p><p>Designer Tom Ford, meanwhile, attributes his success to energy over talent, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/successful-ceo-sleep-schedules-2017-1#tom-ford-fashion-designer-and-director-5">needing just three hours a night</a>. </p><p>Other celebrities, though, swear by sleep as the secret to success. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he makes getting eight hours of sleep a priority, and author Malcolm Gladwell — an expert on success — snoozes for up to nine, work-life publication <a href="https://balancethegrind.co/work-life-balance/the-sleeping-habits-routines-of-18-successful-people/">Balance the Grind wrote</a>.</p><p>Basketball legend LeBron James spends half the day asleep, logging 12 hours between nights and naps, <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/in-multi-billion-dollar-business-of-nba-sleep-is-the-biggest-debt/">he told CBS Sports</a>. "There's no better recovery than sleep," he said. </p>

Kim Kardashian says she sleeps just 5 hours a night — though experts don't recommend it

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Individuals experiencing homelessness have previously relied on the bathrooms at local businesses for running water.</li><li>With businesses, gyms and libraries, and other services closed, many on the margins have gone weeks without the ability to shower or use the restrooms.</li><li>Many are now using gallons of water to wash up when they can. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul><p>Shannon Johnson hasn't had a proper shower in three weeks. With public restrooms closed for social distancing measures, relieving himself requires a bucket, paper napkins, and an empty trash bag. </p><p>He washes up using gallons of waters he buys at local convenience stores or receives at a food pantry.</p><p>"It's very undignified, but it's what you do when you have an emergency," Johnson told Business Insider, shortly after being woken up early Tuesday morning by the intense Las Vegas sun streaming through the windows of the Nissan Altima where he lives.</p><p>With the highly contagious <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> continuing to spread in the US, personal hygiene is more important now than ever. The Center for Disease Control recommends one of the best ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is by regularly washing your hands with soap for at least 20 seconds. </p><p>But people experiencing <keyword id="6398336" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Homeless">homeless</keyword>ness around the country, like Johnson, are finding it nearly impossible to stay clean. And that's leaving homeless populations across the country more vulnerable to the virus. <br /><br />Cities including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/us/coronavirus-san-francisco-homeless-shelter.html">San Francisco</a>, <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/07/metro/number-homeless-people-boston-who-have-tested-positive-coronavirus-skyrockets/">Boston</a>, and <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-02/coronavirus-in-l-a-homeless-community-spreads-to-9-confirmed-cases">Los Angeles</a> have all seen upticks in coronavirus cases among their homeless populations. </p><p>In Las Vegas, between 5,000 and 6,000 people are living in homelessness and about 60 percent of them are unsheltered, according to Kathi Thomas-Gibson, director of the city's Community Services Department. </p><p>Many of these people had previously stayed clean by washing up in the bathrooms of city restaurants, visiting the library, or utilizing other public services. </p><p>Johnson has used the showers at his gym, for which he pays a monthly membership of $25. </p><p>"A membership at our rec center was like two bucks a month. and those have showers,'' Thomas-Gibson said of the city's public resources. "Well, now those rec centers are closed just like the for-profit gyms. So,  yes, people are having challenges."</p><p>While those who have been staying in shelters have access to showers there, there are many men and women who sleep in their cars or on the street because there aren't enough beds for everyone. </p><p>In Las Vegas, there is a 500-bed shelter and homeless resource center under construction, Thomas-Gibson said. Many of its services are already up and running, but while the structure itself is still being built, guests have relied on a local nonprofit's portable shower truck. </p><p>"We had a community partner that had a mobile shower truck that came to the city's homeless resource center," Thomas-Gibson said. "The board of directors decided that the COVID-19 pandemic provided too much of a risk and liability and so they had mothballed that shower truck. We were shocked." </p><p>In late March, Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada, a shelter that housed around 500 people, was forced to shut down after a man staying there tested positive for the disease. As an emergency measure, the city converted the parking lot of the Cashman Center into a shelter, doling out marked spaces to each person to encourage social distancing, City spokesman <a href="https://time.com/5813449/las-vegas-parking-lots-homeless/">Jace Radke told Time</a>.  <br /><br />The shelter <a href="https://www.catholiccharities.com/press_release/catholic-charities-of-southern-nevada-reopens-emergency-night-shelter-in-adherence-with-health-district-protocols/">reopened</a> several days later but instituted a social distancing policy that reduced its number of available beds from 500 to 250.  </p><p><div type="image" title="GettyImages 1215450827" height="3419" width="4819" msid="75459416" hostid="261"></div></p><p>Since then, the city has also opened up an isolation complex, meant to house homeless people with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/16/las-vegas-homeless-coronavirus-parking-lot-center">coronavirus diagnoses and symptoms. </a></p><h2><strong>No showers, and no help</strong></h2><p>Outside of relying on public restrooms, many people experiencing homelessness survive by sharing coming together and sharing resources. With social distancing measures and fears of the coronavirus, that has stopped too. </p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/being-homeless-during-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-4">Cheryl Doktorczyk,</a> who is living in her car in Huntington Park, California, told Business Insider that she's been homeless several times though out her life. This most recent bout, after losing her job because of restaurant business shutdowns, has been the most difficult. </p><p>In the past, she'd been able to visit the apartments of her friends to use their running water, but now they're fearful of letting her do so. She, like Johnson, has been washing up using gallons of water she buys at local stores.</p><p>"This is the catch 22. We say don't congregate in large groups, but what people have historically done is, you come together in groups to help each other," Thomas-Gibson said. </p><p>"This is a cliche, but you have to say it: we've never seen anything like this," she added. "Where our natural and human instinct is to come together and make do, now that's dangerous. It's actually dangerous to do that."</p>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/businesses-closed-homeless-people-going-weeks-without-showers-2020-4">Business Insider</a>

Personal hygiene is more important than ever, but with businesses closed the homeless are going weeks without proper showers or hand washing

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>If you're excited to use Apple's new Night Shift feature for the iPhone, which automatically shifts the display's color to warmer hues as the sun sets, don't assume that it's a cure-all - especially if you're still reading in bed.<p>You've probably heard that the crisp blue light emitted by everything from TVs to tablets to smartphones is <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/smartphone-is-destroying-your-sleep-2014-5">wreaking havoc on our health</a>.</p><p>As far as the range of <a href="http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/EDDOCS/Wavelengths_for_Colors.html">visible light</a> goes, blue light - which is also given off by the sun - is near the brightest. (If our phones and tablets weren't also graced with this blue light, we'd never be able to see our screens on a sunny day.)</p><p>But blue light also tamps down on the production of <a href="http://www.techinsider.io/flux-review-2015-10">melatonin</a>, a key hormone our brains use to tell our bodies to start preparing for sleep. That's something you don't want to be doing at night, especially right when you're heading to bed.</p><p>Enter Apple's ingenious (<a href="http://www.techinsider.io/flux-review-2015-10">albeit unoriginal</a>) solution to the problem: a feature on iPhones that transitions the screen's <a href="http://www.techinsider.io/how-to-use-iphone-night-shift-mode-2016-1">hue from blue to red</a> as the sun sets.</p><p>When we talked Keck School of Medicine professor of clinical medicine and fellow of the <a href="http://www.aasmnet.org/">American Academy of Sleep Medicine</a>, <a href="http://www.doctorrajd.com/">Raj Dasgupta</a>, about whether Night Shift could solve our sleep woes, his answer caught us off-guard.</p><p>"If you can't sleep, good sleep hygiene suggests that you get up, get out of bed, and do something else, something relaxing, like going and reading a book. But nowadays people aren't doing that, they're pulling out their phones and scrolling," Dasgupta told Business Insider.</p><p>There are two major problems with this, both of which run contrary to a broader set of healthy behaviors that Dasgupta encourages in people with sleeping problems known as sleep hygeine.</p><h2><strong>1. It might encourage more night-time cellphone use, which could make things worse.</strong></h2><p>Stimulus control, which the <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/insomnia/in-depth/insomnia-treatment/art-20046677">Mayo Clinic includes on its list</a> of components of good sleep hygeine, refers to the practice of getting rid of factors that condition the mind to resist sleep. This includes setting rules like using the bed only for sleep and leaving the bedroom if you stay awake for longer than 20 minutes.</p><p>For people who already have sleep problems, apps and features that encourage <em>more</em> night-time cellphone use could end up making the problem worse.</p><p>"There are lots of apps that are great that are designed to help you sleep," says Dasgupta, "but it's almost a double-edged sword because my patients are using their phone in bed to use these apps."</p><h2><strong>2. The content most of us scroll through on our phones - as opposed to what we'd read in a book - is more likely to be the kind that interferes with sleep. </strong></h2><p>Another component of good sleep hygeine is preparing for sleep by decreasing our exposure to stimulating content, like TV, social media, and the news, as we get closer to bedtime. Some experts suggest avoiding devices for <a href="http://www.aasmnet.org/jcsm/ViewAbstract.aspx?pid=29249">an hour</a> before bed.</p><p>"When you're going to bed, you want to do things that are relaxing, like reading a book. You want to gradually transition into sleep; you don't want your mind to be stimulated," Dasgupta says.</p><p>I'm not sure about you, but I find pretty much everything on my phone stimulating. First there are the pop-up news notifications. Then there are the group texts (not to mention the Slacks and Tweets). And, when I just can't look away, there's my Facebook newsfeed.</p><p>"At bedtime, you want to be at peace," says Dasgupta. "Things that will probably make you feel not at-peace include the news."</p><p>Despite these issues, Dasgupta says the Night Shift feature can still be a welcome tool for people with sleep issues, so long as they're also sticking to the other healthy sleep behaviors.</p><p>"I don't see a problem having it as long as we know what good sleep hygiene is," Dasgupta says.</p><p class="tagline"></p><div id="categorypromo" style="border:1px solid silver; min-height:90px; padding:10px;vertical-align:top;"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/25-big-tech-predictions-for-2016?IR=T&amp;utm_source=businessinsider&amp;utm_medium=ctgr&amp;utm_term=ctgr_leadgen_2016-predictions&amp;utm_content=iphone_ctgr_leadgen_2016-predictions&amp;utm_campaign=iphone_ctgr_leadgen_2016-predictions"></a><strong> EXCLUSIVE FREE REPORT:</strong><br>25 Big Tech Predictions by BI Intelligence. <strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/25-big-tech-predictions-for-2016?IR=T&amp;utm_source=businessinsider&amp;utm_medium=ctgr&amp;utm_term=ctgr_leadgen_2016-predictions&amp;utm_content=iphone_ctgr_leadgen_2016-predictions&amp;utm_campaign=iphone_ctgr_leadgen_2016-predictions">Get the Report Now »</a></strong></br></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/sleep-deprivation-health-consequences-2016-3">What happens to your brain and body if you don't get enough sleep</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="djeGFrMTE6G93r4XnvdHEXyWk718mMMn" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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