Young doctors are required to go without 8 hours sleep in hospitals all over the U.S. Sleep deprived doctors are asked to make major decisions by an industry that should know better.
@@benlawton5420 Does this mean that there are places where doctors don't get paid? Or is it saying that getting paid for their lack of sleep is some kind of worthy compensation?
No they’re not lol. They have on call rooms they can sleep in during their 24 hour shifts yea. But they can crash until they are paged if they’re needed
I used to suffer from depression induced hypersomnia, I slept between 10-16 hours a day. Even though I always got up for lunch and dinner, I still ended up 15 kg underweight, I was constipated and tired all the time but I had amazing dreams! I had intense lucid dreams that were more like an alternate reality where I didn't exist rather than actual dreams. While I'm happy I get to enjoy sunlight again, I do miss experiencing those cool dreams lol
I just suffer from hypersomnia & idk why? I take very heavy antipsychotics that make me very sleepy. I have a hard time waking up & I don’t know why! I also have weird vivid dreams but I experience them all the time due to a symptom of my meds. I’ve been sleeping in way too late.
Too much sleep is bad for you Not enough sleep is bad for you. Everyone needs varying amounts of sleep. So basically we should sleep when we're tired and wake up when we're rested. WHAT A CONCEPT
Not exactly true, it's like saying ever time you're hungry go eat. Sometimes you need to fast and allow your body to adapt. Many times I'm tired but doesn't mean I should have a 2hr nap that can affect my sleep later on. Regular sleep and wake up routine is essential to healthy sleep
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I remember sleeping for over 12 hours sometimes when I was a teenager. Also not sleeping for 40+ hours during the same period of time because of exams at college. I'm fascinated how strong a young body is. If I try something like this now (28) I'll probably die 😅
It depends, I'm 35 and recently have no sleep for 3 days straight to audit my own company balance sheet, just needed a 150mg caffeine per day. Plus overslept upto 10-11 after that and feeling tired the entire day.. but the day afterward, I'm feeling like a normal again, no side effect apparent.
I have no troublr sleeping at all, but I aldo slept a lot duringmy teen years. So that is definitely normal :) but sleeping 12 hpurs when you're let's say 25 once a week isn't normal for any man or woman :p
8:12 You mentioned that oversleeping can be caused by substance abuse, depression or a sleep disorder. Out of the three mentioned, two of those lead to premature death for unrelated reasons. With substance abuse problems, for example, you are likely to engage in risky behavior such as driving under the influence, or overdosing. When it comes to depression, one of the most common side effects of it is substance abuse and/or taking your own life. The fact that people are 30% more likely to die if they oversleep has little to do with sleep. You are discussing a side-effect of the aformentioned.
Oversleeping is also common with several terminal illnesses. End stage organ failure, cancer, etc tend to make people more tired and they will sleep all day if they can.
Fully agree mate. I've got psoriasis-arthritis. If I need to take some prednisone, I gotta have at least 10+ hours of sleep or I am utterly unusuable on those days.
Correlation doesn't equal Cause. I think this is dependent on the individual...I think this study or whatever is coming to this conclusion because many chronic issues lead to over sleeping so it's not actually the sleep that's the problem. I think it's much better to oversleep than under...but yes moderation is key...which is true for damn near everything. I have fibromyalgia and if I don't get on average 9-10 hours a day I'm pretty much effed.
That was my immediate thought too. There are reasons why people are regularly sleeping the amount that they are and most people who regularly sleep longer either are doing so because of health issues that cause them to be more fatigued and/or only be able to function with that amount of sleep, are not getting good quality sleep for a reason like sleep apnea which is a serious health risk in itself, are suffering from things like stress and depression which can cause increased sleep and other issues, or are just generally lazy and sedentary people who probably do a lot of things that damage their health. Also a lot of people have erratic sleep patterns, under sleeping some nights and over sleeping others, and/or push their bodies and/or minds too far with work, stress, ‘having more to do than hours in the day’, etc. so they may feel the need for more sleep due to exhaustion and burn out or sleep debt. It also makes people more tired if they are naturally night owls but have a job or life situation where they have to get up and function early in the day, and they may find themselves needing more sleep to compensate for always having to get up and function in a part of the day that they were just not designed for. Basically, no matter the reason why people are over sleeping, the reason why they are doing so will also be causing multiple other risk factors in their life. Those are probably doing more damage to their health than the sleep. I totally agree that over sleeping is also better than under sleeping too. Statistics show that the rates of accidents increase significantly on the day that we loose an hour of sleep for daylight savings time, for example, and studies have shown that driving tired or after missing even a relatively small amount of sleep is just as detrimental as driving drunk! Also people who have worked shift work have even been shown to have an increased risk of certain health conditions and causes of death, even years after stopping the shift work, due to the way shift work messes with peoples sleep patterns. It’s also important to mention that different people just different amounts of sleep that they need. It’s only damaging to sleep longer if it’s more sleep than your individual body actually needs, and for a person who needs more sleep then it’s more harmful to try to operate within the stipulated 7 hours of sleep just because that’s the generally recommended figure.
I tossed out the old concept of "sleep per night" awhile ago. I simply sleep in "sleep cycles". Each one is about 1.5 hours. So, I'll sleep in sessions of 1.5, 3, 4.5, 6, 7.5, 9, 10.5, 12 or 13.5. I simply just let my mind decide, and I listen. It works because I'm semi-retired and self-employed. I control my schedule, for the most part.
Something that should have been mentioned is that there are those of us out there with a disorder called Delayed Sleep-Wake Phase Disorder. Many people with this disorder also tend to have ADHD/ADD or fall on the autism scale as well (for me, all three). Right now, for me, it is almost 2am, and I'm just getting tired, and I will usually sleep until noon-ish. I have never had any issues associated with sleeping too much or too little, except for being tired in school because classes started so early. Other than that, wonderful video!
You have absolutely no idea how important this comment is to me. All this time I thought my messed up sleep schedule and inability to function until 8 or 9 am on a normal schedule was some weird form of insomnia or sleep apnea. It even explains so many other problems I have like how I'll be talking and just completely forget the next word I am gonna use. Its comforting to know that I now have probable cause for so much wrong with my day-to-day life.
I sleep impossible amounts. It's terrible always being out of energy for no reason. I work, then sleep. On my days off I'm asleep the whole time. I have no idea why. My job doesn't labor me too hard. I usually drink coffee at night so I can at least try to stay up for an hour or so and play on my PC or hang outside.
people can always sleep 7-9 hours but my personal experience shows that I feel way more refreshed when I'm in sync with my natural sleeping pattern instead of my work schedule 😅
I feel for you. Before anti depressants, I used to only need quick naps and around the one month period, I'd sleep for a whole night and day and felt fine. Now it's like I gotta get 10_16 hours on it or I feel like garbage. And I still nap each day. Else it's feel like dying every second of my life. I feel bad about this.
@@victoriahope8371 I hope you dont feel so bad forma needing to sleep. Depression is a bitch, but it also forces you to take 1000 steps back and rest. Its different for everyone, but recovery is painfully slow and you just need to listen to tour body and be kind to yourself. Not everyone will understand and thinking that antidepressants should "cure you". Antidepressants will only make the symptoms managable, but not by any means gone. Take care.
"people who regularly oversleep have 30% shorter lifespans" one common cause of chronic oversleeping mentioned was "depression"...how many of those people had shorter lifespans because they killed themselves?
not only does Oversleeping ruin your body but also ruin ur life. I used to be in deep depression (recently been taking medication) where I thought nothing made sense anymore so I just slept my life away for a year and then got thrown out my university, great times 💀
Any update how your sleep is? The beginning of 2024 I got my covid/flu shot and have been dealing with insomnia. One day I was up for 40 hours and for 2 months I thought over sleeping would help my deprivation but it made it worse. I recently went back to my 7 hours on work nights and 8 hours on weekends. Hoping it’ll get back to normal. Before 2024 I was a deep sleeper who would be unconscious for 7 hours and all of a sudden I get insomnia.
@@dot1910 If you have difficulty sleeping, either try to go to a medic, or use melatonin gummies (1 hour or so before sleep), because now, im sleep deprived and those help to get some hours of sleep (dunno if i typed that correctly)
"Carries an increased risk" is innuendo to have your causality cake and eat it at the same time. It's a correlation. It could mean that people who are already at risk of other diseases are sleeping more as well.
YEAH, and another thing, test MORE then just 100 victims/patients. Years ago a study said bra's cause breast cancer, then it came out they only "tested" 100 women of english heritage! Sheesh! ❤Best Wishes Hampopper ❤
Yes, also they used to test only on male rats (25 years ago), because they're easier to take care of, and you can put both sexes together cuse you'll end up with too many. So you have the problem of them being a different species and on top of it different gender in some cases. You never know for sure if the experiments are properly conveyed
I love how you explain that correlation ≠ causation. You linked your references in the description too. What a gentleman. I (18F) usually sleep 10 hours a day. Less than that and I experience nausea, loss of appetite, and the general feeling of shittiness. I don't know what causes this and I might never know
I'm afraid I either sleep too much, or too little. Never inbetween, probably mainly because of Insomnia. Even better, don't know if this happens to anyone else, but generally, sometimes before you're about to conk out, you get a random jumpscare, shooting you straight back to being fully awake. To add to more trouble, sleeping tablets (unless very strong) doesn't do a literal thing. Sleeping too much generally happens, but weirdly only during the day. And i mean, the whole day. Usually wake up feeling worse than i did, half passing out on a chair. Another point to mention (sorry to rant on), hypersomnia can be caused heavily by using substances. For me, during a period of heavily abusing something in detail, i'd wake up, use it again, pass out. This happened for about 2 months, and you'd generally feel shit always. Headaches, dryness, grogginess, and even heavily on your weight.
Try to workout/ work enough so that you have no choice but the desire to eat, or dont eat for a whole day and realize how hungry you are im a man and i used to have the same issue from 15-16 years old
@@zaehehe I’d like to ask, with insomnia when you do fall alseep, do you wake up in the night at least maybe 4ish times each night? I don’t have insomnia but ever since I got general anxiety, social anxiety, and depression, I wake up 4ish times sometimes more, sometimes less per night. Melatonin has never worked, I was prescribed trazodone and while it helps me fall asleep fast, I still wake up in the middle of the night. And weirdly, for the past few months, I only have nightmares. They’re all to do with ppl who cause me anxiety etc. My mom has insomia but I can’t remember if it’s passable? Also I remember all my nightmares so that’s great. Back in May, my nice (1st) bf broke up with me and finally cut me out even tho he agreed to be friends like 2 weeks later and ended up being kinda mean but I still want him back smh. Now I deal with anxiety and increased sadness when I think of him, after he broke up, I initially for half a month felt a constant depression and anxiety and it got better but now it’s coming back. I also recently cut out a “friend” who gaslit me the entire friendship and said her bf bodyshaming me was “just how he is”. Made both them apologize before leaving. She also thinks I’m crazy on meds, as long as she doesn’t talk to me, I could care less about what narrative she wants me to fit. Anyways, I originally had one question oops
@@yenc1502 That's if i even make it asleep, lol. But generally when i am, i'll get a jumpscare randomly, any time of the night, however many times. Usually the most that happens is up to 3 timess, haven't had any more than that myself. What happens when you get awoken? Is your heart beating real fast? Are you thinking something bad will happen? And that sucks, sorry to hear. Fuck them though, just drop them. Honestly, I've had "Friends" like that before, and seriously, they wasted so much time i could've done with elsewhere to the point i got fed up, and threw them under the bus big time. I find time after time, they'll come crying back, eventually. That's when you can tell them to crawl back into the hole they came from. For your social anxiety, for me i still sort of have it, but i find i'm slowly beating it back. Just by being more outward with people, if that helps you. Just even if it's a random hello to a stranger walking past, sometimes it's small, but can help you get just small nudges of confidence. Best way to explain is just don't overthink how people think about you. It's easier said than done, i will tell you that much, so you have to force yourself. I hope this helps. :)
Not really sure how I feel about this lol, I have Autism, ADHD, and PTSD and the amount of overstimulation and anxiety and moodiness I deal with regularly requires me to sleep at least 9hrs. And if I don't reach at least 7hrs even for 1 night, I usually start to have psychosis AKA hallucinate and become extremely paranoid and delusional. Most nights I will actually even need 10hrs of sleep! I think I would have a LOT more health risks if I neglected my needs
Don't listen to this pseudo scientist, if you feel your body and mind need the sleep you're most likely absolutely right about that! Hope you're doing well ☺️
Agree. I suffer from PTSD and general anxiety and even though i take my meds, i have to sleep at least 8 or 9 hours. Otherwise i become more anxious and it is hard for me to go to work.
I'm also on the Autism spectrum with potential ADHD and/or OCD so just being awake and "productive" for a few hours is so exhausting for me because I have to self-regulate so much. On most days I end up taking a nap in the afternoon for several hours to recharge a bit before dinner and night time activities. On nights I get less than 8 hours of quality uninterrupted sleep, my symptoms will amplify to an unmanageable level and I'll typically have a panic attack or sensory meltdown and then crash halfway through the day. Whenever things get to be too much to manage for me I slip into delusional self-persecutory thought patterns which only makes things so much worse. I've felt most stable on days when I've gotten 10-12 hours of sleep total, which idk if it's because of the sleep itself or if on days when I can do that I'm typically under a lot less stress. What sucks most for me is that I can function well enough to mask when sleep deprived so no one assumes there's anything wrong and expects me to do a regular workload without any consequence.
At 18, I remember staying up almost 2 or 3 days without sleep. I felt like I could no longer concentrate as much as I used to after that. My mind used to always race with ideas before falling asleep, now I can't do it anymore. I'm now 31, and I still have the strange feeling I started getting after those 3 nights staying up, to where I can't focus as much as I used to. My brain probably took a turn for the worse since then...
I have what I'd call an incredibly rich dream life. I've taken medication that's made it more intense (Effexor ftw 🙄) but I've also just struggled with that and chronic fatigue since before the meds as well. For me that means that even if I get a full 8-9 hours I still usually feel the need for a nap anyways because my sleep is not usually "restful" or "restorative" under those conditions.
I'm in the 5-10 percent. I am addicted to sleep. I sleep 14 hours a night. One time I slept all day and all night. I can't help it. It just feels so good
If someone listened to all of the "this is bad for you" videos all of the time, they'd be counting and regulating every second of their life and they would go insane. Or become a control freak like you see in the general public.
I think it’s impossible to get ‘too much’ sleep. The body will refuse to sleep if it doesn’t need it, and once it gets the sleep it needs, it will simply wake itself up. The reason people are able to sleep for 12-17 hours some nights is because they weren’t sleeping at all on others, the body is ‘catching up’ on it’s ‘sleep debt’. So once again, the root cause is not sleeping enough, not sleeping too much.
I have thyroid issues and even with 9 hours of sleep I can wake up feeling extremely fatigued! Today I slept in and still felt tired and sleepy the entire day! :(
Same, though I not only have Hypothyroid I also have chronic fatigue syndrome. I need 12 hours of sleep every so often otherwise I just don't function right.
@@TarshishedCactus Thank you!! Yesterday was the worst i've had in a while! Horrible aches everywhere, horrible fatigue like down to my bones, and super bad headache! Today is a bit better though! :D
I’m fourteen and I consistently get 11 hours of sleep per night. I physically can’t fall asleep until around 1:30, and I sleep in until around 12. I have been pretty depressed lately, which is likely the cause. I’ve been trying to go to sleep earlier to try and get a handle on my sleep schedule, but just end up laying in bed for hours on end. I’ve tried taking melatonin, I’ve tried not being on my screens before bed, but nothing seems to work. Despite my oversleeping, I constantly feel tired. Idk what to do anymore, I’m just trying to take it one away at a time.
Set a morning alarm. Also have a big breakfast early in the day to set your body clock. Your depression, tiredness, and lack on melatonin at night will sort itself if you do those things. Doesn’t have to be an early alarm. Even 8or 9am
I used to sleep like you when I was a teen. Just do what your body feels it needs. As you get older you will sleep less. At 37 I have random naps now rather than long stretches of sleep. Well, sweet dreams!
@@kennywebb5173 I did the same thing. You can get alarms that shake your bed for cheap. Set up your alarm so its not within arms reach and you have to get out of bed to turn it off
We *REALLY* need to get over this misconception of 8 hours of sleep. It's technically 9 or 7.5 hours. That's because we sleep in cycles. Now the length of these cycles can vary a little from person to person, so yes it COULD be 8 hours for you, but on *average* these cycles are 90 minutes. Which means the average person need either 6, 7.5, or 9 hours of sleep. Like I said these cycles can vary per person woth maybe like 5 to 10 minutes (per cycle), either shorter *or* longer, but even up to 10 hours is not necessairly over sleeping. I am best rested with 9 hours, but one of my best friends likes to sleep for 10 hours to feel optimally rested. Remember, with this kind of thing it's very simple: *If it feels good, it is good.* *TLDR;* We sleep in cycles of approx. 90 min. Aim for anywhere between roughly 7 and 10 hours per night and just remember, with this kind of thing, IF IT *FEELS* GOOD, IT *IS* GOOD.
I used to think that way, got very obsessed about the 90min cycles that I always timed my alarm perfectly but it just isn't that black and white. Cycles vary a lot from person to person and the only way you find out your own personal "time" is just through trial and error over the years. I can do 7 hours and I will feel like DEATH incarnated. Bump it up to a round 8, even though it's supposedly mid cycle, it makes a massive difference and I can actually leave the bed.
Imagine doing everything you can to have a healthy life (not smoking, doing sport, eating healthy etc) only to see a video of a man saying that i can have 10x worse diseases because i sleep 10h a day on weekends
Hey guys! It's awesome to read about your experiences and to see that you give each other advice on how to improve sleep quality. There are a couple of questions in the comment section I wanted to address: -> Multiple Naps A Day - The video, like my other videos, is based on scientific publications which are listed in the description. Most studies I talked about investigate one "sleep session" per night. Frequent naps and sleeping multiple times a day for shorter periods have not been as extensively studied (as far as I'm aware). So I cannot really give you an answer about how your body would react to shorter but more frequent sleeping sessions. My personal questions here would be whether shorter sleeping sessions disrupt regenerative processes in the body or cellular signalling/hormone release. -> Poor Sleep Quality - If you feel that you have a poor sleep quality there are some things you can do. Trying to go to sleep at roughly the same time each night, physical activity during the day, the right diet and avoiding bright lights (phones, laptops) before you try to sleep might help. -> I sleep a bit longer of shorter than average - Sleep is a complex process and there is some genetic variation and the environment (traffic outside, etc) which influence how much sleep a person needs. So if you sleep a bit longer or shorter than 7-8 hours it does not mean much. If you sleep much longer or much shorter there is a higher risk that you might have some underlying disease or that there might be some negative impacts on your bodies. In the end, however, this is (like always in science) statistics. So if you say that you feel refreshed after sleeping a bit longer or shorter that might be completely okay! -> Oversleeping vs. Disease - as mentioned in the video it is a bit complicated to explain what causes what. For sure, sleeping much can be a symptom if there is an underlying disease. We all should be aware that oversleeping can be an indication that something is happening in our bodies. However, there are also some studies which suggest that oversleeping itself might directly increase the risk of certain diseases. Oversleeping, for example, is associated with an increase in body weight and a higher high blood pressure which can cause other diseases (independent of age/gender). Of course, you cannot claim that oversleeping is the main cause of a complex disease but there seems to be an effect in early stages of certain diseases. Since oversleeping can occur before certain diseases manifest themselves some argue that it should become a diagnostic marker. -> acetylcholine - yeah my pronounciation of "acetylcholine" is weird. -> 30% increase in dying when oversleeping - is based on a meta-analysis conducted in 2010. Here, 16 studies were compared and it was overall found that, over time, people who oversleep have a 30% higher mortality risk compared to people who sleep 7-8 hours. -> Sleep is often sacrificed in our societies. Statistics show that chronically sleeping too much and too little are both not healthy for us and it is important to know that. There might be an underlying (and perhaps undiagnosed) disease or/and direct harm caused by our sleeping habits. So takehome message is to watch your sleep (weird phrase). Sleep well y'all!
I overslept for a year and a half recently, no work or only part part time work, no life, so I remember sleeping all morning and day and not getting up until 8pm. But the depression and drinking probably helped that along as well. Now I work every single day, have had one day off in the last two months, I rarely sleep but I am fine. I think it works because I am so busy and don't have time for anything else, when I had all that free time I was super depressed, my arthritis felt a lot worse, but now working 60 hours a week on my feet all day I don't think about it that much, I still get stressed and all that but everything is not as bad as when I am a lazy piece of shit. Plus I have money so I can use that and be like well I am just working, have no life, but while at work I can think about what I want to do or buy or eat when I have a moment and you just use that to keep you looking forward to something at least rather than nothing so that helps. Do whatever you need to do, one thing I did that really changed a lot was when I got a new phone number after forever, that has been great, you are basically blocking the past, and then you wonder who if anyone has that number now? I can imagine the amounts of calls they are getting from all those telemarketers and debt collectors and other psychos, I am sorry, if it gets too bad change your number! Change your number, never put your actual address in the first place, make them do the work, they will give up and forgive all that.
I’m a nurse and I pull 16 hour shifts 2-3 days a week and then 1 or two 8-12 hour shifts. I’m scheduled for more time off than I get because we’re understaffed. There’s simply not enough nurses and too many people that need care. I sleep 4-6 hours a night, but when I’m off, I struggle to get out of bed because I’m just so tired. But, I love my job and feel very fortunate to be in a position to help others in their times of need. It’s physically taxing, but extremely rewarding.
I always wake up automatically after 6-7 hours of sleep and I feel refreshed, so I'm good. My fitness tracker also shows me that I get adequate deep sleep.
Actually this makes a lot of sense in my case, the more I sleep the more I feel my immune system ruined and feel sick (and my throat having something in it), and right away when I wake up everything starts going back to normal slowly. (Only when I oversleep usually, but when I don't oversleep then my head hurts and again it only does in this bed which makes me sus that I just can't sleep normally in this place but I dont really have a choice.)
I'm a person who often has to sleep 12 hours everyday, and I'm often only awake 12 hours- however, every week or so, I suddenly have something I like to call a "bender" where I am unable to sleep for 24 hours and sometimes even more. We have no idea why this happens, and not even my sleep doctor has a sure fire idea for why. But yeah, sleep is wack.
With the high rates of obesity in the western world there is a lot of people with sleep apnea, which has a huge array of health consequences both short term and long, most people aren't aware exactly how bad it actually is, if you snore you should consult your doctor and lose weight, if you are already healthy bodyweight and it persists then it may be structural and possible surgery exists or just get a CPAP machine, there's also a third scenario of being muscular (i had this issue when i competed in Powerlifting in a higher weight class than now) in which case either lose your gains or again just get a CPAP machine.
Some countries/areas sleep apnea is genetic thing so even if you aren't overweight you can have it and it can start at young age too. But usually around middle-age.
As someone who does oversleep a few times a week, I always thought it would be something beneficial to my health, like beauty sleep. Thank you very much for this video.
Hypersomnia really fucking sucks, especially when you can't really explain it to your boss as it sounds like you're lazy. It's a condition I've been dealing with since childhood
as someone who hates schedules and desires freedom above almost everything else, i'm always upset that the advice for better sleep is ALWAYS to get on a regular sleep schedule.
I've been depressed for about 3 months. I slept for about 17 hours last night and my average is 14. I noticed I suffer from sleep apnea I have bad dreams, cold sweats, dry mouth, and my legs go numb and my delts and arms hurt. I feel tired everytime I wake up. I don't know what to do but I definitely know it's not healthy.
If I sleep too much I get headaches and sluggish in my body, but I’m tired all the time. I have a busy job, study and manage my daughter and home as well as possible, I know my diet isn’t great, I just have no energy!
I have been on both sides of the spectrum. And I think oversleeping is definitely worse. Although insomnia due to fibromyalgia had me sleeping barely 2 hours a night, with really frightening nightmares. Once I got it under control with medication, one of my dogs had a 3 month bout of IBD, which really affected him at night. So I ended up being awake with him most of the night. After those 3 months, I ended up in high care in hospital for 5 nights, with a resting heart rate of 150. My specialist was convinced one of my organs was failing, doing sonars on them every day. I was released once it went down to 100. Yet I feel better on less sleep, than oversleeping. At 60, I'm fairly healthy, besides the fibromyalgia, and a fatty liver, with no symptoms, from a year of takeaways after a move I suspect.
I have sleeping issues. Like my body I s so tired but brain won't shut down... I have to sleep at least 10 hrs mm 63... but I l I ve to rest n sleep...I am back. to dreaming again. I missed that
My mother has been sleeping too much for the last 50 years. She’s now 93. She’ll probably live to be 100. She’s also been an awful, abusive person her whole life. Copious amounts of sleep, and Evil, are excellent preservatives.
I’ve battled severe chronic fatigue syndrome brought on from my fibromyalgia pain for 11 years now. The longest I slept was 42 hours while only being awake twice to briefly go use the washroom.
Lol, i have both insomnia AND hypersomnia. :D Insomnia caused by autism, and hypersomnia caused by depression. Guess i got brain damage, i always had a feeling i'd die a relatively early death, somewhere around my 50's... I suppose it remains to be seen, eh? :D
Holy shit. I've been unemployed for the last 2 months. First time I've been unemployed in my adult life and I've fallen into a habit of sleeping 12+ hours a day. I'm exhausted every morning and lately have been waking up with a headache almost everyday. I'm starting my new job on Friday and have been very worried about these fucked up sleeping habits. Thank you so much for this video
I usually sleep 6 during weekdays and 8 hrs in the weekend but once a month I sleep for 12 hours whit no effort and every time it append it feel like a reset of my body
At this point, everything will kill us, we will all die in some way or fashion, I feel like stress will kill way more than oversleeping. So stop stressing yall!
I’m very similar and she probably ought to see a sleep specialist. Try to see if she can get referred by her doctor, it may be a sleep disorder like hypersomnia
Correlation isn't causation. Sick people need longer sleep times to repair. Also, hours of sleep doesn't indicate quality of sleep. I have heard the updated average is actually nine and a half hours. And if you think about how all through pre electricity history, there was a lot longer than eight hours of darkness every night, you can see why it doesn't make sense.
I’m happy the recommended sleep hours have increased. 8 hours has never 👎🏽 cut it for me, (even when I was a young hyper active child like anyone else) I always feel better closer to 10 hours, depressed or mentally healthy. Junk sleep is horrific
Important to remember that everyone needs different amounts of sleep! for me personally, I need at least 7 to even be barely functional, and at least 11 to feel fully rested. It’s different for everyone.
There eas this one period of time on spring break where I stayed awake for 3 days straight, by the time I started hallucinating, I decided to go to sleep. I ended up falling asleep Friday night, and waking up Monday morning- was a very surreal experience.
Can you make a video on heartburn? I have this regularly and it really sucks. I would like to know which are the causes and how to do something againsr it
I have heart burn too, my advice is: get used to it it ain’t going away. But we can combat it. Whenever you get heartburn(throat burn, stomach burn, nausea, ect) drink water. If you can, Alkaline water makes minute differences in your tummy and it should make you feel better faster. I have no research to back this up but it works for me. Also aside from that drink lots of water everyday, avoid fatty or greasy foods. Chips, soda, and pastries, also cause heart burn. So diet change is also important. But you don’t have to stop eating your favorite foods and drinks, just do it earlier. Eating apples at night have also helped me out also eating some fiber filled foods (cereal, granola bars, ... raisens lol) at night will push out whatever’s still in your stomach. I would recommend watching a stomach anatomy video on yt to understand a little more about how stomach and esophagus works. Hope this helped :)
Heartburn is a super common issue and well understood by the medical system. See a doctor. It’s mainly lifestyle - food, smoking, stress etc. It can be controlled. Some find it easy, others find it hard. Unchecked for a long time can be bad so figure it out
Hey, I used to have excruciating heart burn for two years since 2019, and only fixed it the last half year. Doctors don't know the reason even after looking through my stomach with a camera. So they advised I take Proton pump inhibitors. I realized they didn't help and stopped taking after the first month. Living almost two years with excruciating heart burn. Since 8 months ago I tried multiple diets and reseached online every day about nutrition and found the way to lessen heart burns and now after that 8 months my heart burn lessened to the degree it doesn't bother me that much anymore. For some people, cutting out processed junk food and grains is enough to heal them. But for people like me who are really sensitive, much more effort is needed to get rid of heartburn. And for me it's so worth it to not be suffering in pain everyday. I'm happy to finally be able to live a normal life again. I'll sum up everything I've learned the past year, and what you need to do to heal your gut. Of course, this is based on my interpretation of many studies and anecdotal evidence including my own personal experience. Eat high quality meat (mostly beef and pasture raised eggs if you tolerate eggs, a bit of fish, chicken and pork now and then. Grass fed and finished is very much preferable if you have enough money. Ground beef is best bang for buck and more nutritious than lean steak, but make sure it contains no other added garbage and cook it through), white rice, and fruit(apples, mangos, peaches, pears, melon, these type of fruits. Make sure they are ripe and peel them before eating. Pumpkin and squash are okay if cooked well. No nightshades including tomatoes and peppers, no avocados, no bananas. They contain lectins and other anti-nutrients that could trigger heartburn). Meat is the most neutral and nutritious food and forms the base of your diet. White rice and fruit rounds it all out. Fat and sugars don't cause heartburn. Plant defense chemicals do. People with a damaged gut should avoid them for a while. Avoid all vegetables, including seeds, roots, nuts, leafs, flowers, grains(except white rice), spices. They are very high in anti-nutrients such as gluten, lectins, oxalates and phytic acid. Thus most processed food, chicken nuggets, fries, soy sauce, bread, soda's, chocolate, coffee, and tea are definitely a no go. I used to think greasy fat food triggered my heart burn, but it just happens that those fatty foods are often garbage food. Eat a clean piece of fatty high quality ground beef with some salt, and it won't trigger you at all. Eat some chick nuggets or hamburger wrapped in flour and soaked in ketchup and other sauces will trigger me to no end. The exception is white rice though. White rice is traditionally seen as unhealthy because it has all its nutrients stripped away. But white rice is not only stripped of nutrients but also all its anti-nutrients, and thus suffices as a non triggering carbohydrate/glucose supplement. Fruits are generally low in defense chemicals, as they want to get eaten by animals to spread their seeds through their stool. The plants themselves of course do not want to get eaten and defend themselves through defense chemicals. Most animals defend themselves by running away, thus have no defense chemicals. Use virgin coconut oil, beef tallow or real extra virgin olive oil for cooking, and avoid seed oils. They are very inflammatory. Only use salt as condiment, and have some lemon juice with every meal. You want sour food and not alkaline food, it helps your damaged gut digest your food and nutrients so you can heal. Though it sounds counter intuitive, sour food will lessen heart burn for most people. Alkaline food, baking soda, and proton pump inhibitors will only delay the inevitable pain by neutralizing your stomach acid for a short period, but you won't heal as you cannot absorb your nutrients without stomach acid. This results in severe nutrient deficiencies in the long run, and worsening health problems. To restore a healthy body function you NEED stomach acid, but most people with heartburn actually lack stomach acid to digest their food. Their gastric valve gets no closing signal because their body recognizes that they have low stomach acid. To restore proper production of stomach acid, you need nutrients from food. But to get nutrients from food you need stomach acid. It is a vicious cycle most people are stuck in. To help digest food many people suggest Apple cider vinegar, but I prefer lemon juice. Lemon juice's low PH helps digest food, but once digested by the body, its citrate content alkalizes your body PH. So it's a win-win. It also has a decent amount of vitamin C which helps fight candida and is needed for collagen synthesis of your gut lining. If you are bored with salt as only condiment, try ume su (japanese ume plum vinegar), it has a salty sour slightly fruity taste and should not trigger acid reflux for most people. Drink only water. Drink water/dairy kefir if you are constipated and it doesn't bloat you. No need to worry about combining fat and carbs but if you really want to optimize eating order for best blood sugar response, then eat meat first, wait 5-10 minutes, then eat rice and fruit. What you do need to pay attention to is to give your gut enough resting time. Eat 2-3 times a day and give your gut atleast 12 hours continuous rest each day. Get enough sleep and have low stress. Walking and some resistance training are the best activities if you want to get active and healthier, but also don't overdo it as it is not 100% necessary to heal your gut, and overly stressing your body could make things worse. Also extremely important: get enough vitamin D through sun or supplements if needed. Most people are very deficient without realizing. 5000-10000 iu daily if supplementing. Vitamin D is essential for your immune system and even affects your microbiome. Taking k2 and magnesium supplement with vitamin D is advised as they work synergisticly. Do all of this for a few months and try to add back other plant foods one by one if you really want to eat them. Try them fermented first though, as they are easier to digest and are less likely to trigger heart burn.
I’ve been dealing with some form of chronic fatigue - probably either chronic fatigue syndrome or post-viral fatigue syndrome - for two-and-a-half years. I went from sleeping 8-9 hours on a daily basis to sleeping 11-14 hours each day. Some days I’ll sleep up to 16 hours, especially if I didn’t sleep enough the day before. I’ve been tested for so many things. Hormone disorders, diseases like Lyme and West Nile, DNA disorders, you name it. I’ve had vascular studies and, of course, sleep studies. The only thing that ever showed a problem was a sleep study that showed I had a moderate level of sleep apnea. I’ve been using s CPAP device for about 18 months now, but I still sleep just as much. I’ve had Type 1 Diabetes for 42 years now, so that’s usually what gets blamed for any unexplained illness. That doesn’t help, of course; we have no solutions without an actual cause. I take a stimulant medication to wake myself up when I need to be awake, but that medication doesn’t cause me to sleep less. It just delays the sleep. Once the medication wears off, I have to go back to sleep. Worse than sleeping half my life away, I have the corresponding "brain fog." I can’t remember things and I can’t concentrate on things. When given tests to determine cognitive Function, I do extremely well. I have always had a freakishly strong memory, never having to review materials before tests, being able to remember entire pieces of music after playing through them once or twice (I’m a professional musician). That memory Is still there, but I still have trouble with focus and long-term recall. I can’t work most of the time, either. I can work part-time for a week or two, but after that I have to sleep more than usual for at least a week. Trying to work without that rest period causes me to become so exhausted that I can’t function. There aren’t any jobs I can find that let you take that much time off, I’ve learned. Right now I work for an opera company that only does three to four operas per year. It’s work but it’s nowhere near a living wage to work, at most, eight weeks per year. I wasn’t depressed before I started sleeping so much, but having to live like this has caused severe depression. I’ve been on several different antidepressants over the past year and they’ve worked to an extent, but they haven’t caused me to sleep any less. They’ve just killed my sex drive and any interest I have in hobbies or other things I used to enjoy. I’ve been denied disability twice; apparently being unable to wake up after only 10 hours of sleep, being exhausted all the time, and being unable to think clearly isn’t a disability. Now there’s this video here telling me I’m causing even more damage to my body. Yay.
@@christineconnor9711 The chances that some kind of dietary insufficiency has been overlooked in all the processes he's gone through to try and find a solution to his problem over years is extraordinarily low. Your comment comes off in a way similar to saying "just don't be sad" to a depressed person.
@@inigo4937 it might not be necessarily insufficiencies but some sort of trigger for his immune system. From my own experience, there are very few doctors versed on the matter.
Try getting a disability lawyer to fight for you and your case. Sometimes they'll do it free if you agree to give them a portion of your back payment (which you will initially get on approval) That's how a lot of friends with disabilities I know have gotten it
@@bioshawna I’ve had two different disability lawyers. Neither got paid since they failed to get me on disability. I had letters from doctors stating that my illnesses were real and quite debilitating, but both times the judge determined that I wasn’t disabled. Welcome to life under Republicans, where it’s just too bad for you if you get sick.
I have ME/CFS, a chronic condition which can cause debilitating fatigue and pain. I sleep way more than most people because of it and it destroys my body. My muscles and bones hurt. I wake up with headaches and sometimes even migraines. Im weak and not even rested, but my body insists on it.
Same here :(( for me the pem I develop from sleep deprivation is way more riskier compared to the risks of sleeping too much, but lying down all day makes me feel like dying so I found sitting up while awake reduces the oversleep symptoms a little. Maybe it’s because the nervous system can get too used to lying down and it’s not natural. Cfs is a complicated illness tho so I’m not sure if it’s a universal rule. It would be amazing if doctors did research on the effects sleep can cause to our bodies, since we’re a bit different from the norm. Maybe one day :”) However I’m really glad to see more talk about it, gives hope for our future. I hope time gives you ease with your symptoms too, and that you have a good support system around you 💖
During a major depressive episode of mine I was cycling in between insomnia and hypersomnia, it was hell. That's when I learned that keeping a routine for your body and mind is one of the best things you can do
If you watched the whole video you'll know there's no clear link between oversleeping and destruction of body. It could very well be the other way around, body trying to recover using sleep, when you have underlying conditions. Things are generally not as simple as they seem.
I've found my best nights of sleep tend to be 7-8 hours. Less than 7 and sleeping 9 or over I feel like 💩. Adding daily activity has definitely helped with my sleep and depression, along with eating healthy. I know some people roll their eyes when they hear that, I did at one point but it helps so much! More than I ever thought possible!
@@-Foxy-Fox- I think 7-8 is the normal but some people prefer way more ore les I think the 6 is pretty good but there is people who sleep way less or more the 6-7-8 is healthy
@@FilthyFils.musicgroup You try doing that when you live with an 8/10 pain in your stomach and a colostomy bag. I have more wrong with me but those are the big ones.
I used to wake up feeling like a zombie with splitting headaches pretty much every morning. As it turned out years later, I was diagnosed with sleep apnoea and now use a CPAP, however I have also been diagnosed with depressive disorder (their words) and I know I have depression because it's something that never lifts and I go through all the classic symptoms of it. I sleep for hours a day sometimes and sometimes I'm up all night. Then other times I sleep all day and still need to sleep at night. I also have the high blood pressure and am overweight, mental health feeds into physical health and it's all a vicious circle. But I've also still with the CPAP woken up experiencing the pain through dehydration and headaches. I've cut my sugar levels by switching to alternatives and when I feel able I try to do a little bit of exercise, but when my energy levels feel depleted I don't. I'm currently a carer for my mum who is terminally ill with Parkinson's and Lewy Body Dementia, and have a narcissistic bully of a father. I live with my parents so my overall circumstances contribute into my condition now. But I just try and stay positive in the hope that it will all get better when things change. Then when I really fall into the depression hole, I remember that all my family who cared about me, are no longer here, and would it be so bad to join them? Because let's face it, one day I will, as will we all.
‘Does that mean sleeping too much will make you sick? Not necessarily, says Vsevolod Polotsky, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine. “We don’t exactly know the cause and effect,” he says. “It probably works the other way, that when you are sick, it leads to more sleep time.”
What about someone who desperately needs more sleep because of a condition or illness? Does the problem still arise? Or does the conditions or illness negate the harmful affects of oversleeping? Also without taking into account the other factors of oversleeping that study might be a simplification of a larger problem
"Too much sleep is bad for you" "Too little sleep is bad for you" "Eat that, it's good for you" "Wait don't, it's actually bad for you" They wonder why people eventually stopped listening.
I always am tired all the time. I fall asleep at school throughout the day, no matter how much sleep I get. This affected my grade in math since we had notes almost every. But, a few years before I made myself get as little sleep as possible because I believed sleeping was a waste of time. Since I didn’t enjoy school and didn’t talk to anyone, I thought in return I should use all of the time I had outside of school watching a show, playing a game etc. But around the end of that year, I realized that if I hated school so much, I should make it end faster. So I slept at all moments I could, in class, home, (where I could atleast.) My sleeping is still weird now but I don’t have that mentality anymore.
Odd there was no mention of the brain's glymphatic system. Also how poor sleep increases insulin resistance, giving us cravings and steeper glucose spikes.
My mom sleeps around 12 hours a night. She's also been kicking cancers ass since 2015 and is on a daily chemo pill. But she's dong better than I've seen in the last few years.
I have never understood sleep issues (other than intellectually), I get into bed, my head hits the pillow, I instantly go into complete unbreakable deep sleep for precisely 7.5 hours then instantly wake up fully functioning, doesn't matter when I go to sleep either, can be 6pm or 3am, 7.5 hours later my sleep coma ends. I can sleep through jackhammers but if someone walks into my room I instantly wake up. I can also program it by just thinking to myself "I need to get up early in 5 hours" a couple of times, 5 hours later my sleep coma ends literally 5 minutes before my alarm, then back to normal the next night. My brain has to be processing external stimuli subconsciously, like seeing the alarm clock, in order to be this accurate, also explains waking up to people as well.
I see you haven't watched the video. It's just a correlation. As in, people who tend to have X unhealthy habits also spend a lot of time in bed. If you don't do X you don't have to have any consequences
Excellent video. In my late 20s I experienced daytime sleep attacks and at night could sleep up to 16 hours unless physically woken. Was referred to a sleep specialist and after a polysomnography and MSLT was diagnosed with Idiopathic Hypersomnia. After repeated sleep studies the diagnosis was changed to Atypical Narcolepsy - when I lived in Tokyo took part in a study at Tokyo University conducted by Yutaka Honda who discovered the HLA haplotype (the genetic marker common to people with narcolepsy). In my 40s my sleep disorder became debilitating - had a stressful job in financial markets and worked up to 12 hours a day (thanks to stimulants) but would then sleep all day Saturday. Apologies for the digression- the point I wanted to make is that *if you have sleep problems please go see a specialist for an overnight polysomnography in a sleep lab.*
Athletes are the healthiest people in the world and they get way over 8 hours of sleep. In my completely unprofessional opinion what really matters is what your doing whilst your awake.
I’m autistic, a day of too much sensory stimuli or too much communication can lead me to sleep 12-13 hours. If I don’t, I have meltdowns several days afterwards without actual triggers. I’d rather die early than deal with that haha.
Because of neurological damage from an incident in the military I remember my dreams. The only way I forget them is for them to be buried beneath a mountain of other dreams. And because of a good bit of childhood trauma coupled with said time in the military most dreams are awful PTSD fueled nightmares. So lets say I know a person in my life and they happen to show up in a dream and do something awful to me it becomes VERY DIFFICULT successfully reminding myself it wasn't really them. So for me sleeping is about the last thing I want to do. My schedule is pretty much the following 1-2 days staying up not sleeping then sleeping 3-5 hours, rinse and repeat. 3-5 hours is because I'm able to do that without having any dreams I remember. After 2 months there will be 1-3 weeks where I go to bed shortly after my son and waking up in the morning when he does. It stops once nightmarefuel starts again. If I didn't have a child I would have suck started my pistol years ago as this existence described above is a true living hell with no end, with literally the ONLY bright spot being my son I love so very much and couldn't bear knowing me "checking out" would likley saddle him with severe psychological trauma basically ruining the only thing I truly care about..
i wentt without sleep for 8 months, hallucinating stopped after a month but tthe lack of data coming in sttarted to really take its toll, ive got bad nerve damage and lost quite alot of reading capabilities, its been over 3 years since then and im still seeing the ill effects from that endevour.... going to the hospitals only led to a " you havent been awake that long youd be dead" quite frustrating that they ignored my body failing in front of them. arrhythmia in my heart and many many problems with visual memory and the connect between short and long term memories
as soon as I read the title I got excited I sleep 6-7 on average and 8 at max and I get mad when I sleep more because I dont need it and when I heard the 8 hours or more will hurt you made me happy to know that I dont need that much sleep to completly function I even get down to 4-5 hours over summer and I'm fine stay up at 12am or 1 am and wake up at 4 or 5am perfect
Ever since I was around 12 I've needed to get 10 to 11 hours of sleep every night. It makes me feel very creative. Well-rested and my body just felt better. As time went on I never respected the pain my body was in and played all kinds of different sports as hard as I could. Now I have a nerve disorder from heavy lifting with bad form, fencing, boxing and rock climbing. I never gave myself enough rest for my central nervous system to recover and it created behavior patterns and chronic pain that I'm still trying to fix now at 21. For me, I know for a fact being highly active during the day and sleeping for 10 to 12 hours increases my rate of healing by a significant amount.
This week I have been trying to improve my sleep schedule by going to bed at the same time every day and of course the weather and possibly some medication that I took made by body go, "Nevermind!! I'm going to lie in bed awake for 5 hours!" I'm determined, though, I'll have a healthier schedule if it kills me...
