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Understanding sleep debt and the adverse health effects of sleep deprivation

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Sleep Deprivation

The international average of sleep need is eight point four hours. But there's a huge standard deviation in standard error with at and we know that especially when we look at high performers in society. A handful of corporate executives who have essentially self selected because of being short sleepers, which is a rare genetic mutation. And unfortunate people are in the far other tale of the distribution, where they need ten to 11 hours of sleep per night.

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