Tumblr Thread: Implications Of A Sleep Starved Society

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Nov 14, 2021 3:00 PM EST

The name of the game in this educational Tumblr thread is to not sleep on sleep. Those zzz's are crucial toward maintaining some kind of balance in one's life. With that being said, we clearly live in a society that oftentimes operates at such a fast and competitive pace that actually locking down the proper amount of sleep every night can become a terrible challenge in and of itself. Keep the Tumblr vibes going with this collection of totally random, strange, and on point Tumblr gems. 

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    Font - atern I honestly believe the whole "adults require less sleep" thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism mikkeneko It is. i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis
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    Font - or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don't want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don't want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their
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    Font - curlicuecal this this this this this our society places almost zero value on sleep on enough sleep on uninterrupted sleep on regular, predictable, cycling sleep all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?
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    Font - Keep the Intern wei na paddysnuffles Reminder that - Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep. By this I don't mean "humans shouldn't have 8+ hours of sleep a night"; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for.
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    Font - Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens' novels. - Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system. If you're planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It's a natu
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    Font - kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on. - According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation) - Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.
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    Font - After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that's a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda w
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    Font - - According to research "starting work before 10 a.m. is tantamount to torture and is making staff sick and stressed" %3D - Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact. Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we're pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there's always som
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    Product - Forcing night owls to follow morning people's sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as "permanent jetlag". painted-bees @seandunkley seandunkley Combine this with a culture that increasingly glorifies overworking as a form of social currency, and you've got yourself a chronically ill population. Source: atern 143,491 notes
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