What If You Stopped Sleeping?
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Ahhh... Sleep! You can never have enough of it, it seems...In fact, sometimes it literally feels like you aren't getting enough, but what if you stopped sleeping all together?Strangely, science understands relatively little about why we sleep or how it evolved in the first place.After all, laying unconscious and dormant for hours on end while predators lurk hardly seems advantageous or smart.But, we have discovered a few correlations.For example, adults who sleep between 6 to 8 hours a night tend to live longer.Excess of sleep, however can lead to medical problems including cardiovascular disease and diabetes.Similarly, chronic sleep deprivation has been linked to aspects of cardiovascular disease, obesity, depression and even brain damage.But what if you...
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Ahhh... Sleep! You can never have enough of it, it seems...In fact, sometimes it literally feels like you aren't getting enough, but what if you stopped sleeping all together?Strangely, science understands relatively little about why we sleep or how it evolved in the first place.After all, laying unconscious and dormant for hours on end while predators lurk hardly seems advantageous or smart.But, we have discovered a few correlations.For example, adults who sleep between 6 to 8 hours a night tend to live longer.Excess of sleep, however can lead to medical problems including cardiovascular disease and diabetes.Similarly, chronic sleep deprivation has been linked to aspects of cardiovascular disease, obesity, depression and even brain damage.But what if you...
