<p>It’s already known that sleeping less than 6 hours causes your focus, attention, mood, and thinking ability to go down. Also, by sleeping less than your ideal hours, you gradually accumulate sleep debt which will someday force you to sleep a great amount at once.
But these are only the short-term consequences.
There’s a chance that, after quite a while (~1 year) of continued sleep of <6 hours, the body gets used to it and everything that’s badly affected is gradually recovered to normal levels.
I was looking for results of experiments on long-term effects of <6 sleep and could only find those on short-term effects.
Has anything been revealed about long-term effects of sleeping little (3-4 hours)?</p>
<p>Future MD’s should learn basic research skills.</p>
<p>Google “long term sleep deprivation,” get 735,000 hits.</p>
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