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It can be repaid in the sense that we stop being tired. This is what people mean by repaid. But the lost productivity from when we were tired can not be recove
by gubbrora 7y ago
It can be repaid in the sense that we stop being tired. This is what people mean by repaid.
But the lost productivity from when we were tired can not be recovered.
- d0mine 7y agoThe book "why we sleep" as I understand suggests the increase in probability of dementia if you don't sleep enough i.e., lack of sleep leads to brain damage that is not fixed by sleeping longer later.
- beenBoutIT 7y agoIt's more about the quality of sleep as perfect sleep seems to be able to reverse Alzheimer's in mice . Without some kind of chemical intervention there's no way a complex system like the brain will fix itself, the bad sleep further deteriorates the brain's ability to get good sleep and each day the problem gets exponentially worse. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25457559/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25457559/
- wozer 7y agoAlso possible long-term health consequences.