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Habits of Health Highlight: Get Some Sleep

“Get more sleep” is something you have heard for a while now. You probably say it to yourself, likely upon waking. Your feet have not even hit the ground yet and you are already thinking, “Oh tonight I will get in bed earlier.”

How to Repay Your Sleep Debt

THE BAD NEWS: “If healthy young men are restricted to 4 hours of sleep for 6 nights instead of their usual 8, they build up 24 hours of ‘Sleep Debt’. With this buildup in ‘Sleep Debt’, their metabolism becomes prematurely…

Common Disrupters of Sleep

“Many of us live lives characterized by light pollution. We rarely experience sunrise and sunset, and are inside under artificial lighting during most of our days. Much of the light exposure we do get is poorly timed. We might not…

Our Debt to Sleep: How Sleep Affects Weight

  “Some experts believe that sleep might have originally been a mechanism to conserve energy. If we fail to get enough sleep to meet our energy conservation requirements, our body moves to the next best choice for energy conservation –…

Our Debt to Sleep: The Problem

“Half of us mismanage our sleep to the point it negatively affects our health and safety. On average, each of us sleeps one and a half fewer hours each night than our great-grandparents did a century ago.” - William Dement,…