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Sleepless

Sleepless

A forum for the sleepless, insomniacs, and night owls. We don't count sheep here.

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Posted bymisbegottenin/sleepless-Sep 01, 2016 at 1:05 AMΔ

There Is No Modern Sleeplessness Epidemic

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There Is No Modern Sleeplessness Epidemic

"Turn on late in the evening and what are they trying to sell you?" asks Popular Science. "Coffee without caffeine ... beverages to put lead in your eyelids ... mattresses for spinal bliss. Poke around in a drugstore and what do you find? Sleeping pills, earplugs, black-velvet blindfolds ...

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  • misbegottenSep 01, 2016 at 1:07 AM

    In 2012, for instance, a team of Australian researchers analyzed the results of 38 studies from around the globe, encompassing research conducted from the 1960s to the 2000s. That systematic review found that in most of these countries, the average amount of sleep citizens got per night increased in that time period. Meanwhile, this data set suggested that the number of people getting fewer than six hours of sleep per night had declined in many of the countries studied over the past four decades (though the authors say they found “inconsistent results” for the U.S. specifically). “This turns the current concept of an increasingly ‘sleep-deprived society’ on its head,” the authors write in Sleep Medicine Reviews, “and also challenges the notion that the penetration of personal technology into daily living, especially over the last 3 decades, has harmed our sleep patterns.”

    A comment from an admitted member of the "Sleep Wellness industry" retorts:

    Studies I've seen that do that suggest that we sleep about 2 hours less per night, but even that is a bit misleading, because man used to sleep in phases a Century or more ago, as do almost all mammals today. The fact that we now sleep in one block at night itself makes it hard to make an apples-to-apples comparison, and that's made worse by differences in how sleep duration and quality are measured.

    In the end, does it really matter? We do know that almost half of working adults get less than the recommended 7-9 hours, and that a third get less than 6 hours. We also know that some 70+% of adolescents don't get enough sleep. And we know about the significant detrimental effects sleep deficiency has on our health, safety & performance, in school, sports, and at work.

Sleepless

Sleepless

A forum for the sleepless, insomniacs, and night owls. We don't count sheep here.

1770 members
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