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What's happening when you're getting a chronic deficiency in sleep? so what do i mean by this? this means that over time, you're not getting enough sleep.
00:17
What do i mean by this? do i mean that you pull an all -nighter for several days in a row and you go 36 straight hours without sleep? well, that's one version of it, but that's honestly not really super likely.
00:41
One of the things that i'm meaning, that's sort of more a short we would call that an acute loss of sleep.
00:49
What i mean by sleep loss over time is a little bit different.
00:54
If our average recommended amount of sleep is eight hours or seven to nine hours on average is recommended by world health organization and the national sleep foundation.
01:09
What i mean is that you'd be consistently getting things like three to five hours of sleep.
01:21
If you did this, for a couple of weeks or a couple of months.
01:24
A lot of people don't notice that this is actually having an impact on them, but it's making their social dynamics a little bit harder.
01:31
It's making it difficult to remember things.
01:34
It's making it difficult to pick up new skills.
01:39
So three to five hours, or even honestly, three to seven hours consistently over more than just a week, is going to be what we call a chronic deficiency in sleep.
01:55
What's the scientific name for that? why is this so important that it has its own name? well, like i said, it actually interacts with a bunch of different functions in your brain and your social life and your emotional processing.
02:09
It's very important that we end up getting adequate amount of sleep.
02:13
So there's a couple different things that we could call this.
02:16
Let's throw up some random words here to make sure that we understand what it is and what it isn't.
02:22
So we'll call upon some words like jet lag.
02:26
We'll do another word like rotating shift work...