Can You Die From Sleep-Deprivation?
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1 min readFeb 6, 2015
Uh-oh!
Most of us need seven-to-eight hours of solid sleep per night to function properly, and many of us simply aren’t getting it. Falling short of sleep requirements night after night is almost certainly compromising the health of hundreds of millions of people. Though its impacts are often gradual to the point of invisibility, experts suspect that lack of sleep is, in a very real way, killing us.
I normally get between 5–6 hours a night. Perhaps I need to schedule in more sleep‽
