How Sleep Deprivation Slowly Kills Us

According to various researchers, including a Research And Development report from 2016, Americans don’t get enough sleep. And, if you take a look at the scientific literature, getting enough sleep matters in all sorts of ways. Since we live in a capitalist paradise, or at least that’s what they tell us, everything is about the bottom line. See, it’s the economy, stupid, to quote a Reagan- era word of wisdom. Economy uber alles, right? So, according to researchers, insufficient sleep results in over 1.2 million lost working days every year, which translated in “real money” gives us an impressive figure: over $400 billion dollars lost every year. Who loses that money you asked? The US economy, obviously: the “man”, the corporations, employers, or the “1 percent” to quote Bernie-bros. So, yeah, sleep matters, even if we’re talking about the wrong reasons. Find out the secrets that helped our fathers survive in the old days! Now, to quote a well-known sleep advocate, who is also a member of the “1 percent”, Arianna Huffington respectively, “Sleep is the underpinning of our entire well-being, necessary for us to fully recharge and be productive, creative and truly connect with ourselves and others during the day,” Nicer words have never been spoken. But what is she talking about? The same RAND report I mentioned in the first paragraph explains that American workers’ chronic sleep deprivation doesn’t only affect economics. Getting less than 6 hours of sleep every night will increase your chances of early death with 13 percent, compared to those who get 7 or more hours of sleep. Basically, not sleeping enough equals increased chances of premature death. But wait, there’s more grim news on the horizon: as per a Gallup poll , almost 40 percent of Americans fail to meet the 7-or-more […]

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