![]() ![]() One study found taking a two-hour nap after a night of total sleep loss helped boost participants’ alertness and performance. Catching Up on Sleep May Reverse Mental Performance Impacts of Sleep Lossīeyond health benefits, catching up on lost sleep may help us perform better mentally, too. ![]() One study found the mortality rate of those who slept for five hours or less during the week and nine hours or more on the weekends was the same as those who consistently got seven hours of sleep.Īgain, this led to the conclusion: “long weekend sleep may compensate for short weekday sleep.”Īnd another study found sleep deprivation causes a heightened sensitivity to pain, but recovery sleep helps restore our pain tolerance. The results showed those who caught up on two hours or more sleep at the weekend had a decreased risk of high cholesterol compared to those who didn’t catch up on sleep.Īnd so the study concluded, “sleeping more on weekends for workers who had a lack of sleep during the week can help prevent dyslipidemia.”Ĭatching up on sleep may even decrease your risk of death. ![]() The research looked into how catch-up sleep affects dyslipidemia, or high cholesterol. A 2023 study looked at weekend catch-up sleep in Korean workers who cut their sleep short during the week. Catching Up on Sleep May Reverse Health Impacts of Sleep LossĬatching up on sleep may protect your health. The RISE app can tell you how much sleep debt you have. RISE users on iOS 1.202 and above can click here to view their sleep need and here to view their sleep debt. To find out how much sleep you need and whether you have any sleep debt to catch up on, turn to the RISE app. So you may be able to catch up and feel better on at least some of this sleep loss. It’s hard to accurately study chronic sleep debt as researchers need to collect data from participants over the course of several decades.īut, if you have chronic sleep deprivation, you very likely also have acute sleep debt. Increased risk of having multiple health conditions (a 2022 study found sleeping for five hours or less a night at ages 50, 60, and 70 was linked to having two or more chronic diseasesĬan you pay chronic sleep debt back? Maybe.Cardiovascular diseases and problems like high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease, and heart attacks.For example, if you need nine hours of sleep, but you’ve spent your whole adult life only getting six or seven hours of shut-eye, you’ll have some serious chronic sleep debt. Chronic Sleep DebtĬhronic sleep debt is the sleep debt that builds up over months or years. We’ll dive into the research (and how you can pay it back) soon. More research needs to be done, but it seems energy levels, mood, certain health metrics, and some cognitive impairments can improve when you catch up on sleep. One study found getting six hours or less sleep a night over 14 nights causes the same cognitive performance deficits as if you’d had up to two nights of no sleep at all.Ĭan you pay acute sleep debt back? Yes! Studies suggest you can pay back acute sleep debt. One study found if you go about 18 hours without sleep, you’ll suffer the same cognitive impairment as if you had a blood alcohol level of 0.05%.Īfter about 18 to 20 hours without sleep, the effect is similar to having a blood alcohol level of 0.1% - over the legal limit for driving in every state. It doesn’t take long to feel the effects of this short-term sleep deficit. A weakened immune system (a 2023 study found there’s a 27% increased risk of infection in those who get less than six hours of sleep).You might have had a short night of sleep last night, or have been missing out on an hour of sleep each night over the past two weeks. At RISE, we measure this over your last 14 nights. Acute Sleep DebtĪcute sleep debt is short-term sleep debt. There are two distinct types of sleep debt to be aware of: acute and chronic. The RISE app can tell you how much sleep you need each night. ![]()
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