The Dangerous Hidden Cost of a Sleepless Night

Recovering from one bad night's sleep requires the equivalent of a three-day weekend, according to a new study by the brain health platform Muse by InteraXon, Inc.

Dispelling the myth that all you need to get back on track is a long night of delicious sleep the next evening, researchers found that the human brain, when subjected to less than five hours of solid shut-eye, has a lot of work to do rebuilding neurological pathways over the next 72 hours.

Deep sleep during the first night of recovery increased by about 8 percent, reports Muse, which chronicled the brain activity of 868 sleepers wearing the company’s artificial intelligence-driven headband over the course of 1,846 nights.

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