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Sleep deprivation hurts careers more than helps
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Not even coffee will be enough to keep awake on your job if you don't get enough sleep when you're off.

Burning the midnight oil implies working overtime, long into the night, to get something done and ultimately to get ahead. But the belief that sacrificing a few hours of sleep for a few more hours of work will lead to higher achievement has been debunked by science.
“According to the Division of Sleep Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, the short-term productivity gains from skipping sleep to work are quickly washed away by the detrimental effects of sleep deprivation on your mood, ability to focus and access to higher-level brain functions for days to come,” wrote Travis Bradberry for Forbes. “The negative effects of sleep deprivation are so great that people who are drunk outperform those lacking sleep.”
On Sunday, the National Geographic Channel, in collaboration with the Public Goods Project and National Institutes of Health, aired a documentary about the silent and dangerous epidemic of sleep deprivation in America. “Sleepless in America” revealed that 40 percent of all Americans and 70 percent of adolescents are sleep-deprived.
Lack of sleep is linked to critical health problems such as “weight gain, depression, diabetes, memory loss, brain-function impairment and stress,” reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
For people with full-time jobs, not getting the recommended seven to nine hours of sleep is detrimental to the worker’s productivity at the office.
Bodies and brains need sleep for rejuvenation. Removing that rejuvenation has physical and mental consequences.
“(A University of Rochester) study found that when you sleep, your brain removes toxic proteins from its neurons that are by-products of neural activity when you’re awake. Unfortunately, your brain can remove them adequately only while you’re asleep. So when you don’t get enough sleep, the toxic proteins remain in your brain cells, wreaking havoc by impairing your ability to think — something no amount of caffeine can fix,” Bradberry wrote.

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