Forget the whole cutesy “beauty sleep” thing. What we need to know about how sleep can keep us younger is crystallized in a study by Eve Van Cauter and colleagues at the University of Chicago.
Van Cauter scared up about a dozen healthy young men, easy enough to do on a college campus. She asked them to stay overnight in the university sleep lab facility for six consecutive nights.
Then she and her fellow researchers methodically disrupted the sleep patterns of these young men, waking them up frequently, turning on lights, requiring certain mental tasks before going back to sleep. The subjects averaged four hours of sleep each night
Which sounds like a typical sleep pattern during finals week.
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