sleep deprivation
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Things You Didn’t Know About Sleep
Anyone who’s gone through an all-nighter or has had bouts of insomnia knows that getting adequate sleep is a key part of feeling good. Next to regular physical activity and avoiding risky things like smoking, ensuring that we usually have a good night’s sleep might be the most impactful thing we can do to improve…
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Climate Change Might Be Stealing Your Sleep
If you’ve ever laid awake at night wondering about how bad wildfires, droughts, storms, and floods could get in the future, then climate change has already been robbing you of sleep.
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Snoozing Late On The Weekends Won’t Make Up For Your Sleep-Deprived Weeknights
Sleeping in late on the weekends won’t protect you from the ravages of barely sleeping during the work week, suggests a new study. While extra weekend sleeping did temporarily help volunteers eat lighter and better control their blood sugar, the health benefits went away as soon as they started not sleeping much again. In some…
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How Many Nights Of Mediocre Sleep Are The Same As No Sleep At All?
Scientists deprived a group of study participants of different amounts of sleep. Some got a full night’s sleep, others got their hours of sleep cut down and some got no sleep whatsoever. After a while, the slightly-deprived people were as bad offas the people who had gotten no sleep. The difference was, they didn’t know…