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zedzed comments on A very long list of sleep maintenance suggestions - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Elo 15 October 2015 03:29AM

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Comment author: zedzed 15 October 2015 04:06:04PM 0 points [-]

There are theoretical reason to expect long-term harm from it.

Such as?

Comment author: ChristianKl 15 October 2015 09:16:09PM 3 points [-]

Messing with upkeeping processes of the human body generally doesn't tend to go well. Hormons that regulate sleep like melatonin don't the ability to switch to 4 hour cycles.

Everything that sleep research has found suggests that it's not healthy to significantly cut down on sleep.