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He died at 54. It surely wasn't good for his health to sleep only 4 hours every night.
by Qem 5y ago
He died at 54. It surely wasn't good for his health to sleep only 4 hours every night.
- jacquesm 5y agoLet's reverse that: if he had not only slept 4 hours every night he would have gotten a lot less done in his life.
- Qem 5y agoIf sleeping 8h/day would grant him, say, ten more years, that would more than paid those extra 4h of awake time over his entire adult life, as 34x(1/6) < 10x(2/3).
- uncletaco 5y agoY’all know he died of cancer, right?
- KMag 5y agoIt's possible a lack of sleep reduced his immune response to the cancer. The body has some natural cancer fighting mechanisms, and it's only the mutations that escape these that become malignant tumors.
- uncletaco 5y agoIt’s possible. But what’s more possible is spending the latter half of his life working on nuclear weapons and observing bomb tests took their toll. It’s interesting how you guys are latching onto this man’s lack of sleep to speculate why he died young instead of the more obvious possibility, given his background.
- raincom 5y agoMaybe it had to do with the radiation exposure in Manhattan project.
- mjreacher 5y agoPossibly, funnily enough his daughter mentions in her book that in hindsight one of the first signs of cancer was that he started sleeping for 7 or 8 hours a day!