Many times, due to personal issues, exam times, new stages, personal confrontations, problems at work, etc. The quality of our sleep suffers to the point where we go from sleeping 7 or 8 hours to sleeping even less than 5 hours each day. Throughout the days, this fatigue accumulates and our health deteriorates, causing us to take longer to react, causing slight memory loss, being more irritable, listless, etc. Now we know how long it takes to catch up with late sleep.
A group of scientists from Poland have tried to calculate the time it would take to recover the 10-day late sleep. It is quite difficult to figure out and they have set an average number of days, which can actually vary from person to person.
It is a very concise study, but it has given rise to a big question and that is that many times we sleep badly, either due to being out at night, for studies, work or personal problems and we do not know how long it will take to recover lost sleep. In fact, based on our experience and after reading the investigation report, it is seen that it is very difficult to return to normality and recover all the rest that we have lost.
It is best not to stay up late and sleep 7 or 8 hours a day, and if we have to do it for a flight, an ex-lover, or a specific situation, try to make up that time. In addition, it is recommended to do it naturally, leaving aside the use of drugs, unless it is a critical situation. In which case, it’s best to choose very mild, natural, plant-based sedative options. They take longer to work, but the process is usually more natural and smooth.
It took us more than 7 days to get it back
That is the conclusion of this small study conducted by a group of scientists from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. The research recruited several healthy adults who underwent 10 days of intentional sleep restriction, and then 7 days of sleep recovery with no restrictions or anything.
What happened? Well, the scientists noticed that the secondary effects of a bad rest such as attention deficits, specific failures in memory, increased risk of work accidents and car / motorcycle accidents, heart disease, other medical problems, confusion, etc. they were considerably reduced, but not 100% because they did not recover all of their functions.
Study participants were monitored under normal, everyday conditions and were followed with smart watches that measured daily sleep and activity patterns. Apart from this, they underwent daily encephalography to monitor brain activity. They also answered questions every day of different kinds and through this activity the reaction and precision were measured.
The researchers report that it is difficult to compare these times with other studies that used other study methods, but that this study does provide findings on recovery from delayed sleep. They do not rule out that there is new research in this regard with a longer recovery period and to see if the human being is capable of recovering 100% from sleep deprivation.
