Andrew Huberman· PhD
the less and less sleep that you get it's not a linear increase in your risk of a car accident it's an exponential increase
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the less and less sleep that you get it's not a linear increase in your risk of a car accident it's an exponential increase
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when you were on 4 hours of sleep it was close to a 10 times greater risk
when you get down to 5 hours of sleep there is I think it's something like two Three Times Higher likelihood of an accident based on real data
they looked at the risk of acute injury 236 per increased risk in the people getting four hours of sleep versus eight hours
people who were sleeping 4 hours a night had a 236 increased risk of acute injury versus people who slept 8 hours a night
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