Researchers investigating our sleep mechanisms have recently determined that periods of lost sleep cannot be made up for at a later date. In a sense, the damage that is done when you force yourself to remain awake for tens of hours continuously cannot be made up for if you sleep 20 hours or more after that. The team has also underlined that the ill-effects of sleep deprivation during the week cannot be undone by sleeping more in the weekend, LiveScience reports.

Though the team behind the investigation admits that more studies are needed before the results are finally validated, it maintains that the small group studied showed a strong correlation between not being able to sleep and side-effects of this condition, regardless of whether the participants thought they had made up for their “sleep debt.” Chronic sleep loss, the researchers go on to say, can also begin to affect individual performances in terms of focus, especially since the natural sleep-wake cycle is broken, and the various chemical chains of events taking place in the normal body are disrupted.

The findings are made even more significant when considering that people who go for as little as 24 hours without sleep can experience a drop in mental performances that puts them on the same level with a person that is legally drunk. The authors of the paper say that everyone pulls an all-nighter from time to time, but add that this habit should not be converted into an all-weeker. In the new experiments, the specialists focused on determining whether prolonged periods of rest could clear up the damage caused by long hours of sleep deprivation.

Another troubling aspect of this research is the fact that the people most prone to committing errors on account of their conditions have important jobs, where they interact with others in some way. Health workers, truckers and emergency responders all have “odd-hour” jobs, which means that they get less sleep than they should, and are therefore more likely to lose focus. This should be avoided at all times, as no one would want a tired doctor to diagnose them, or a tired surgeon to operate on them. Also, when walking down the street, you somewhat hope that the guy driving the immense road train behind you can stay on the road.

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