Sleep debt accumulates when you sleep for fewer hours than your body needs over the course of several days.
Here’s how to mitigate it.
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The phrase sleep debt conjures an image of a ledger listing the number of hours youve recently spent asleep.
Sleep debt takes place if youre not getting enough opportunity to sleep compared to your bodys current needs.
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Also, this kind of additional sleeping wont reverse the effects of sleep deprivation, anyway.
Beyond these adjustments, there isnt much can do to actuallymake up forlost sleep.
Its for that reason that Dr. Wu thinks we need to reframe the concept of sleep debt entirely.
The term sleep debt is both too scary and not scary enough, says Dr. Wu.
Instead, its best to banish the all-or-nothing thinking and land somewhere in the middle.
Sleep is flexible, and our bodies are resilient andcan adjust when we have slip-ups.
While you cant necessarily gain back sleep you didnt get, youcanset a better path forward.
board-certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist, sleep expert at Hatch, and author ofHello Sleep
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