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Sleep, eat, repeat?

The Food Chain

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The Evolution of Sleep

Sleep is a very metabolically demanding process. When you're low on sleep, you're awake for longer. But the difference between being awake all night versus being asleep all night is not as much as you would think. Despite that, people are eating more than twice or three times the amount of calories relative to that difference. Matthew says it's the animal in us, or it could be.

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