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Through Monday through Friday with the bustle, to less sleep, you'll often experienced. Usually on weekends, you also 'revenge' by sleeping all day.
If you think it can 'sleep debt', you are wrong. According to research by a team of Penn State College of Medicine, United States, long sleep on weekends is not effective to restore the condition of the body that do not fit because of lack of sleep.
Body's performance will deteriorate when someone constantly slept only six hours per night. Then, with a long bed for two consecutive days will not immediately restore the body.
Sleeping longer on weekends also does not have a big impact, because someone will still feel slow and lazy. That's according to research chief, Dr. Alexandros Vgontzas, professor of psychiatry who do monitor the respondents who comprised of men and women a young age.
They are required to spend 13 nights in a sleep laboratory. In the first four nights, the respondents slept for eight hours.
After that they are limited only slept for six hours for six nights. Then, followed by three 'night recovery', ie they slept for 10 hours.
"After a week of mild sleep deprivation, two nights of recovery, it is sufficient to reduce sleepiness but not with body condition. Sleeping longer on weekends after a busy work is insufficient to restore cognitive function due to lack of sleep," said Dr. Vgontzas.
However, it only applies to men. While in women, mild sleep deprivation can still be solved by sleeping longer on weekends. Sleep soundly in women also provide protective effects from lack of sleep disorders.
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