Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a night?

Re:Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a ni... by colechristensen on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:21AM (#18110847)

I read it, I liked it, I felt like it was not written very objectively.

There did not seem to be nearly enough self-doubt or testing alternate situations.

And it shouldn't be terrifying. You no longer have to worry about animals trying to eat you, finding enough food to eat yourself, dying of infection, or physically defending yourself on a day to day basis.

If the worst thing that's wrong with you is sub-optimal sleep, you've got life pretty good.

We're getting down to solving more and more subtle problems. Sleep, the biological contents of your digestive system, and environmental exposures look to be the big health problems on the table to solve in the next few decades.

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Re:Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a ni... by manmal on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:37AM (#18110915)

Sub-optimal sleep can absolutely ruin you, in the long run. E.g. it's been suggested that a significant portion (a third, IIRC, have to find that article) of chronic fatigue incidents are due to non-restorative sleep. Definitely a problem worth solving if you have it.

If you lie in bed awake once per week or so, you surely don't need to fret about it. It just must not become part of your lifestyle - if it does, get a checkup.

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Re:Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a ni... by sbarker on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:53AM (#18110968)

Calm down. We all die in the long run... Want better sleep? Stop worrying and work with your hands a bit.

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Re:Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a ni... by marak830 on Monday October 01, 2018 @05:00AM (#18110992)

Unfortunately that doesn't always work. Sometimes due to pure amounts of work I have done over the day I just can't sleep when I get to bed. (Chef, so definitely working with my hands haha)

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Re:Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a ni... by lj3 on Monday October 01, 2018 @01:10PM (#18114620)

Heart attacks increase by 25% When we lose that 1 hour of sleep by switching to Daylight Savings time.

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Re:Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a ni... by FabHK on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:51AM (#18110960)

Walker does bring quite some evidence to bear, though. I think the triad of well-being (good exercise, good nutrition, good sleep) is well established, and we're well advised to make sure we get enough sleep.

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