Category: Sleep Deprivation

What happens if I do not get enough sleep?
Complete Sleep Deprivation
Normally, you are up about sixteen or seventeen hours between sleep sessions. Complete sleep deprivation is what happens as the hours go beyond this point. The immediate result is you feel tired, and you feel exhausted. By 2 or 3 A.M., many people have a […]

Few people need little sleep (four to six hours), a few people need a lot (nine or ten hours). Most people are in the middle (seven or eight hours). Most sleep doctors believe the majority of people need at least seven and a half hours of sleep to function at their best.
About 5 percent of […]

Even a few nights of bad sleep can be detrimental. One study found that people who were limited to three straight nights of sleeping five hours or less were more likely to have physical ailments such as headaches, stomach problems, and sore joints.
Other studies have shown that curtailing sleep to four hours a night for […]