The article discusses the critical importance of sleep and emerging research on 'natural short sleepers' who thrive on just four to six hours each night. While conventional wisdom states seven to nine hours is best for health, these genetic outliers challenge this norm, suggesting quality might be more pivotal than quantity. The piece also highlights how sleep is an active process vital for memory consolidation and overall health, countering historical misconceptions about sleep as merely a time of rest, and underscores the urgent need to understand sleep's role better.
Our bodies and brains are replenishing energy stores, flushing waste and toxins, pruning synapses and consolidating memories during sleep—it's an active, complicated process.
Today's historical high number of U.S. adults sleeping less than five hours a night starkly contrasts with the crucial need for sleep that research highlights.
Collection
[
|
...
]