In a study of 488 Boston finishers, the strongest predictor of dangerous blood sodium was gaining weight during the race. What runners drank made no difference at all.
The official number is "seven or more" — a floor with no ceiling. When researchers measured sleep in three societies without electric light, every group averaged under seven.
A study of 6,421 people across 29 countries mapped human energy expenditure from eight days old to 95. It found four life phases. None of them begins at 30.