What are the differences between people who need extremely short sleep only and normal people?

ByHehaden

It is said that human beings are sleeping in one-third of their life, but they can live without problem just like normal people just take a three to four hour sleep each day "Short SleeperThere are people called called. The BBC has released short sleeper people why healthy even if the sleeping time is extremely short, and methods to master short sleep even for ordinary people.

BBC - Future - The people who need very little sleep
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Abby Ross, a former psychologist living in Florida, USA, is a "short sleeper" who lives a healthy life only by sleeping for only 4 hours everyday from the moment I got interest. Mr. Ross says, "I am happier that the time I am staying a day is longer than any other person, I feel like I live my life twice as long." "I wake up in a very good mood every morning.The surroundings are very quiet and I feel like I can do anything.In the early morning most shops are still closed, after shopping online I went shopping online and books There are times when we walk around a road where no one is walking or chat with people who live in other time zones around the world, "says Ross about his daily routine.

ByMolly Sabourin

People of short sleeper constitution like Mr. Ross get up at 4 o'clock to 5 o'clock every morning and start activities, but there seems to be no worrying nor falling asleep during the day. As a famous person, in the UKMargaret ThatcherIt is widely known that the former prime minister was a short sleeper. It seems that there is a cause in genes that they can be healthy even in an extremely short sleeping time.

In a study conducted at the University of California in 2009, a comparison experiment of genetic sequences was conducted for women and their families "waking up at 4 o'clock the next morning even if they go to bed at night every evening" . As a result of the experiment, the research team found "short sleeper people"DEC 2Discovered that the gene called mutation is occurring. Also, among the families of the short sleeper women mentioned above, people who need normal sleeping time seem to have no abnormality in the DEC 2 gene.

ByRichard Ricciardi

"It is a common belief that people are organizing memory, restoring damage of brain cells, and removing waste products in the brain when sleeping." According to Professor Ying-Hui Fu who is doing sleep research at the University of California, short-sleeper people can accomplish information arrangement in the brain in less time than ordinary people by mutation of DEC 2 gene, It seems that it is thought that there is no problem even if the sleeping time is short.

However, when the sleeping time is short, it usually has a great influence on health condition, quality of life, lifespan, etc., but also a lot of factors such as depressed mood, weight gain, increased risk of stroke and diabetes A problem arises. Professor Ying said, "Sleep is an important thing in life, it can prevent many diseases such as dementia by sleeping enough, conversely if cognitive function of the brain declines when sleep is insufficient I will do it. "

Professor Ying wants to continue research on Short Sleeper's people who are not insomnia patients who can only take short sleeping hours, but who live healthily every day even in short sleeping hours is. Professor Ying is currently studying the gene sequence of several short Sleeper family members and says, "As research progresses, someday people can become short sleeper someday."

ByJeffrey Pott

According to Neil Stanley, a sleep consultant, "The most effective way to improve sleep is to get better sleep than to sleep," says sleep consultant Neil Stanley to the question "Can people who are not short sleeper constitution maintain health with a short sleep? It is to set the wake-up time to the same time everyday ". According to Mr. Stanley, it seems that it will be difficult for the life cycle to collapse as the body wakes up at the same time everyday and wakes up from the sleeping state because it is easy to wake up from a sleeping state. In addition, Mr. Stanley says, "It is important to ignore the trend that the sleeping time is short in the world and to determine the sleeping time that suits your body. If you know what type of sleep you are, the quality of life will change drastically. "

BySam DeLong