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
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.
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.
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.
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 definitely was a hypersomniac for a while. I was sleeping 11-13 hours, waking up severely tired, going back to sleep even after that. Now I get 8 hours, 12-8AM, and I’ve been feeling so much better since
@@teflons Try to set an alarm for 8 hours after you lay down and just make yourself get up until you get used to it. Try to also get decent exercise and things that work your mind during the day.
@@teflons Honestly there wasn’t a cure-all for me. I had even worse insomnia as a child, getting practically no sleep for most of my adolescence. What helped me was going to bed the same time each night and allowing myself to naturally wake up at whatever time, and then after a couple of weeks setting an alarm for the average time I’d wake up in the morning. I started to sleep around 12, and get up around 9. then after a month I’d change my alarm an hour ahead, so I’d be sleeping at 12, waking up at 8. Now I sleep at 13 and wake up at 7, no alarm needed and well rested. It’s a game of patience and commitment.
@@teflons I can only speak for myself. I removed most of the carbs from my diet and supplement vitamin D in the evening. I sleep between 7.5 and 9 hours and don't need an alarm. The body is perfectly capable to wake up in time.
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.
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 😅
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.
Back when I lived with my family, I would sleep somewhere between 12-20 hours a day due to depression and just...fear of my family. Ever since I moved away, I still oversleep a tiny bit at times, usually a bit over 9 hours and sometimes, I sleep under 7 hours. Soooo, I never really get the perfect amount of sleep needed. It's actually really hard for me to maintain a normal sleeping 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.
Oversleeping >>>>>> undersleeping. When I oversleep, I feel well rested, can focus way easier, better memory, better mood, better everything. Undersleeping, everything starts to fall apart.
@@combos7 it doesn’t MAKE you feel more tired it just reveals how tired you already were because it lower stress hormones by ALOT. A healthy person should be running on a thyroid and glucose oxidation dominant metabolism but most people aren’t healthy and constantly run on stress hormones dominated metabolisms. Take away the excessive adrenaline, cortisol, etc and they feel like shit and blame the extra sleep, when the extra sleep is just revealing how unhealthy you already were. If I feel tired after extra sleep (which is not often for me), I get some food because that’s what my body needs
"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?
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
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.
A week ago I was suffering from extreme sleep deprivation and extreme dehydration. I didn’t sleep at all for at least 3.5 days. This was one of the most painful and scariest moments in my life. To put it in perspective I have peptic ulcers and I puke until there is absolutely nothing left, not even bile. I got stuck in a loop where I couldn’t even hold water down, and would just puke it right back up. Because of the pain I was in, no matter how bad I wanted to sleep, I just couldn’t. As for the effects of sleep deprivation, I began hallucinating “spiders” everywhere on the second day. They would scurry everywhere I look and would even combine into these mega spiders. But day 3, that’s where it really got scary. I became dyslexic. It’s very hard to describe, somehow my brain would scramble everything to something that makes absolutely no sense, it would completely scramble to the extent it wasn’t even scrambling letters, but words. For example: “This sentence right here.” Would look something completely non-sensical like “a hxdjs7 j 02h so l.” Thankfully I was able to force myself to chug water and get some sleep. But it was scary to think I was potentially getting BRAIN DAMAGE from that!! Edit: I think the extreme effects I suffered were from the culmination of both sleep deprivation and dehydration. If I was JUST sleep deprived, I think it would not have been as severe!
@@hnr9lt-pz7bn I live in the middle of nowhere and the VA is 2.5 hours away in another state. Also, I wouldn’t have trusted myself to drive if I couldn’t even read. Certain death!
Lol ig im gonna have a lot brain damage because I've spent more time than u not sleeping and I'm still here . Like I said in a comment before seeing yours my worst was sleeping only 70 hours during two months. Sometimes there was a whole week not sleeping and then a night of 4 hours. I was just waking up and going crazy because I knew from my past experience that i would not get any more sleep. It made me do dumb things. It was very difficult during 6 months. Each time I was sleeping more and more normally I would just freak out and think what if I cannot sleep. And after thinking that i couldn't sleep for a new period. It led me do drink, abusing meds and wanting to KMS with all those meds because it was too much sleep deprivation and I think he meds I abused were fucking with me greatly. So I made an attempt, inconscious and after that i was forcing myself to be grateful when I was having only an hour or two of sleep. Which is hard. What made me have trouble sleeping was restless legs, a terrible life, the decision of stopping my heavy psych meds and panic attacks and jerks each time I was on the point of falling asleep. It makes me angry to here that people have trouble with sleeping too much but I totally understand this is valid and bad for the health too.
I have had this experience before. Not being able to keep water down is the most painful thing ever. I threw up until my throat felt raw. I never want to experience that again.
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.
during school I used to sleep 2-3 hours consistently for about 4 years, I now have to sleep over 10 hours a night to have the ability to go through my day without a long nap, I feel heavy and dizzy and have been sleeping like this for 2 or so years now and it's only getting worse. I'm stuck between deciding whether to sleep 10 hours at night or 8 hours like I should but then have a 4 hour nap later on, its hell and ripping my life to pieces
sleep 8 hours and thats it. Don't take any naps. Try the gym maybe, seems like you have chronic fatigue from not looking after yourself. Seriously hit the gym, plenty of cardio and weight lifting will help alot. Trust me been here before. Also see a doctor just to be safe.
I’m watching this video as someone who has been diagnosed with hypersomnia, narcolepsy, and severe clinical depression (chemical imbalance). As testing showed, I automatically go into REM sleep and spend the entire night in REM, never truly achieving a deep sleep. Since my brain is active all day and all night, I feel I am constantly running on half-battery. And since I spend all night dreaming, I have a poor grasp of time and memory problems. The day before feels much longer ago than for others. I wish I weren’t so tired right now.
I am suspecting that I might suffer from hypersomnia. I can easily sleep more than 13 h (one time I slept for 24 h). I don't wake up from alarms too easily (can snooze for hours before I realise whats happening,) and I am also almost always tired and I suffer constant headaches and pain in my joints. I have moments here and there where my sleep works but more often than not I always have issues with sleep. I also feel like my dreams are very long and intense and its almost like living a whole other life in those dreams, making waking up confusing hard difficult :o I prolly don't have hypersomnia but it seem to fit me so well.
@@miegravgaardxoxo well I am not sure? It's just a guess? I'm proof of subliminal learning though? I slept through most of my university science degree and still got high distinctions, distinctions and only a few credits? I could hear everything going on when I was completely asleep? I can go into REM sleep in 15 seconds? I didn't get diagnosed for narcolepsy until 3 years after my uni degree 🤭 So I have a science degree and then specialised in GIS spatial mapping and cartography? I slept the MOST in my GIS class? I could internally visualise everything in my dreams? Our lecturer at University became annoyed with me always sleeping in class because it distracted others poking fun at me; so the teacher made an example out of me and it backfired? Lol he yelled my name and snapped me awake out of my sleep and was standing there with a white board marker; then he asked me to do the complex reasoning answer on the board? I looked at it? And thought .. Hmm I can answer this! It was one of those trick questions of b finding the an area of a really really obscure waterbody that cross sectioned 5 or 6 parcels with various known attributes but not all attributes in all fields? I stepped through a multi part calculation and thinking of it in reverse? Like if you can calculate all of the known areas then the obscure shape is basically the the total area minus all the known areas 😉 It seemed simple to me at the time? Anyway the teacher said 'very good please sit down and please come and see me after class!' I thought he was pissed at me? Low and behold he handed me another sheet of paper and asked me to do the complex reasoning questions from a previous year exam even though we hadn't learnt all of the course material yet? He asked me to talk him though it and I got 3 out of 4, 100% right and he corrected me in the 4th one because I was on the right track and then I changed my mind to answer it another way and he said.....'no keep going you were going right in the first attempt.... See if you can answer it?' I then left University and got employment with a company known as ESRI 😉 My a year later my teacher rang the company for support. I had tech support put the call through to my desk. He was was amazed to hear my voice. The end/ PS. I can literally slow mo, play, pause, rewind and fast forward any kind of physically visualised video or imagined created video like it's a movie? This isn't normal
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 💀
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.
It's been shown in studies of blue zones that community is a strong factor in longevity. It wouldn't surprise me that much of the negatives associated with mental illness, poor sleep, and illness are inversely correlated to a strong sense of place within your social sphere. Also Im sure much of those things cause each other, any one can cause the other in any direction. Empathy and connection are the antithesis to dissociation and separation. Life vs death in a sense. Meaningful relationships, while not a cure all, are vital to forming healthy lifestyles. They also just give you a reason to get up in the morning.
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. :)
If sleeping more than 8 hours carries a risk of heart disease, obesity and diabetes, how does that align with the studies that show that sleeping more helps with not getting obese but improves body composition, performance enhancement and building more muscle with less fat cumulation? Like the results were not only that sleeping enough improves this, but that sleeping "too much" as well. To me those improvements in body and performance are directly in opposition with heart disease, obesity and diabetes. For example athletes don't look obese or diabetic but try to sleep as much as they are able to. This begs the question: what kind of studies were exactly performed and on who? Was it backwards conclusions from correlation to causation? Like people who are obese and diabetic (perhaps undergoing increased inflammation) or have some other sickness that alters life and behavior sleeping more due to their condition having more recovery demands instead of sleeping too much causing it? Depressed people often sleep a lot, but is depression caused by sleeping too much? Was caffeine usage monitored in these tests? From what I've understood body is generally very good at regulating sleep needs, like you find that you can't sleep once you wake up after certain period of time. And on the other hand you might feel tired if your sleep quality was poor and feel the need to sleep more. Similarly to being sleep deprived you might sleep more, and on the other hand when you've been well rested and relaxed you might find yourself sleeping a bit less. Unless: there's conditions that affect that. But just like modern people drinking too much caffeine and affecting their sleep quality and having a need to sleep more than the average. You did provide a lot of studies as reference, but like a normal internet person, I didn't read through them, and I doubt I'm qualified enough to spot all the things in the studies that can be concerns regarding making strong conclusions from the results. I'm also not sure if some of the conclusions were based on mechanistic studies, which regarding human body always feel a bit iffy unless there's also a practical study showing that it has a noticeable impact in real life situations. Are there many studies that show no effect or contrary effect (other than sports science)? In summary, I gained a lot of new information from the video, but I'm still not convinced that it's more than an indicator of underlying issue rather than possible cause of health conditions. Thanks for the video and especially thanks for listing all the source studies, that's a huge part of transferring educational science content - to challenge viewers to not only think about it but also do their own reading on the topic and verifying what they hear. Obviously most, like I admitted before of myself, are not qualified to analyze the studies regarding study population and methods and conclusions, but at least they can check that these studies exist and that they said what you heard. And I believe part of educational science is not only to spread information/knowledge, but also challenge what was said and what they heard and bring some discussion (obviously in respectful manner and basing arguments on something, I don't mean just throwing conspiracies in or using extremely biased sources). It might lead to the persons involved agreeing or disagreeing, but everyone should be more informed afterwards, no matter the stance or belief.
I’m not sure if it was depression but I would prefer my dreams than reality for a few years. Especially after graduating because I now had the time and covid happened. Extremely lucid dreams. I fell I love with someone in my dreams and I would have the same dreams again and again so I could go back and do things differently or do them all over again. Sometimes I wanted answers from my subconscious, other times I wanted it to sweep me away. I felt like I was actually going somewhere.
Bro I had the coolest dreams when I slept alot Now that I'm more productive irl I lost a girl I found in my dreams who I called "tchar" Still miss her 2 years later
For several years, I was almost always in a dissociative state when I was awake, and my dreams nearly always felt more "real" than "real life" itself. My memories of dreams and real life started mixing themselves up, and I just got more and more disoriented as time passed. Real life feels vivid when depression eases up, and vivid dreams go back to being vivid dreams.
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
As someone who is in med school and actually gets 8 hour sleep I feel validated. My peers seem to belive you should sleep less and latter into the night in order be an university type adult. Also there is a heavy reliance on coffe that just don't seems safe.
I find it peculiar that the people who should know best of all about the dangers of lack of sleep and excessive use of stimulants tend to be the worst offenders and force others in the medical field to do it as well.
I am on both sides of the argument during peak work times I sleep late and little, knowing full well that this isn't ideal to be honest though, i do find myself working best at night. I think my brain works only after sundown lmao
As someone who suffers from sleep apnea, I could sleep nearly an entire day before starting CPAP. Now with CPAP, I sleep at most 8 to 9 hours. I feel much better now.
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
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...
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
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
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.
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.
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
I work night shifts and sometimes need to sleep 12 hours the following day to recover from being awake all night. Maybe too much sleep can harm my body but working nights without enough chance to recover definitely would.
Yeah, I cycle between 12 hour day and 12 hour night shifts and I often stay up for 24-30 hours followed by 12-14 hours of sleep. I know this isn't great but.......
I also do a compressed shift, there are times that during holidays the company will request overtime and put it at unlimited. When you hit 60 hrs you get double time and if you work nights you also get 15% more pay than day. So when this happens we have a lot of people that will work 16 hr days. Sometimes 4-6 days in a row so they can basically make their entire months pay in this one week of OT. Even the Holiday time is payed in double time. It is not a healthy way to work at all , but with the capitalism getting greedier and greedier, some people have to work like this to make ends meet.
My sleep schedule is like combining oversleeping and sleep deprivation. It's very common for me to sleep around 10-13 hours "daily". Then again when something has to be actually done, I have to stay awake and then being awake for 18-40+ hours is usual. Some times after a long period of being awake, and/or getting short sleep for a few days, I may sleep 16-20+ hours. I've been asleep for 20 hours without getting up at any point. One time I slept for 22 hours. I have kind of "sliding" sleep schedule and every once in a while it just goes to "normal mode" out of the blue, with pretty much spontaneous waking up at mornings and natural need for sleep in the evenings. Though it is very uncommon and usually lasts for maybe a month at a time, max. I do think I have autism, sort of an ADHD, but kinda without the hyperactive part and interest toward perfectionism. Often times when the night comes, I feel the need to get something (projects) done or watch youtube, gather information on something etc. My inconsistent sleeping habits have wreaked havoc to my employment and integration towards society and as things sit, I don't really see other options than to become a sort of an entrepreneur. There are those mornings that I simply can't get out of bed but it is not accepted in any part of "proper" society, even though I would do a shit ton of work to even overcompensate the loss of working hours.
If your mind is racing, you have hyperactivity, just in the mind. Also, I relate to this type of sleep schedule, I've been actively trying to staying awake for 36 hours (4-6am - 4-6pm the next day) and sleep for 12, because when I get 12 hours exactly, I feel bloody fantastic, refreshed, able to take the next "cycle" (day-night-day awake) on by the horns. When I get 9, I can function, but any less and the day is ruined, I literally cannot do much, maybe one productive thing if I force myself. So far, I can stretch it to 24 hours before conking out. Which is no good cause it throws the whole schedule out of whack.
I am the same way. At night time I have this weird burst of energy due to my adhd brain which makes me want to be more productive or do things I enjoy which can affect my sleep.
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 am oversleeping.. everyday.. and i feel completeky railed every day.. i‘m in some kind of trance in every attempt to wake up.. and then i will fall asleep again.. i dont know what to do. This literally finishes me.. and takes a lot of quality out of my life.
I feel like people are looking for ridiculous explanations why oversleeping causes all those things, but by now we should know by now that correlation doesn't mean causation. Oversleeping in my opinion is a symptom, not the culprit.
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.
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.
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.
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 get nine hours, sometimes 10 but it seems to work for me though everyone's sleep needs are different also I'm a night owl so I stay up late anyway also I live a healthy life style I love to exersise and I eat healthy so chances are I wont have to worry about any sort of disease anyway
"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 disagree with some of this. I think its way more important to get too much sleep than it is to get no sleep at all. Sleep is miracle working for healing the body.
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.
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'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.
Most if not all chronic sleeping problems have an underlying or associated condition, they're not a choice Reffering to an individuals insomnia or hypersomnia as if that is the main problem itself and does not need further investigation is medical gaslighting It does real harm to real people We can all do better than that, so let's
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.
I think we should be very cautious about trying to establish causal links from purely correlational research. Unless we control for all influencing factors and force people to oversleep in a controlled environment, we cannot be sure that all these issues are specifically associated with sleep. All we know is that sleep length is ASSOCIATED and CONNECTED in some way to various health problems. An open wound may be associated with bleeding, but you wouldn't blame the wound or the blood for causing themselves, would you? Something else caused BOTH effects. Without appropriate experimentation, you cannot determine the cause of ANYTHING and you should not be implying so because it's misleading. It's also incredibly harmful. For all we know, oversleeping is the body's way of compensating for issues elsewhere in the body and actually performs a mediating effect (without which, consequences would be far greater and more problematic!). If you do not understand basic scientific principles, please be more careful about how you present your videos. If you do? I suggest going back and reading up on some old textbooks about ethical practice and the difference between correlation and causation. Many problems, especially health problems, are multifactorial and can be quite nebulous, so it's important not to point the finger at one behaviour or one cause without appropriate evidence. Again, very harmful and misleading.
Also Covid now causes it too long covid dose it now like there’s so many reason for sleepinf over 10 hours but when your sleeping 10-16 hours a day that’s a problem tho we need 8-9 max that’s it anything els is a problem
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.
Apparently everything kills us. Everything. I just wish it would either hurry up and get the job over with or stop making it so frustrating, tortuous, and disappointing on the way. Jesus.
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
I slept for 36 hours straight last week. When I woke up and peed it was a dark orangish-brown. It was a terrible experience and also the longest I've done a long sleep. I don't know why this happens sometimes.
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.
I think it's just if you have a damaged body, then you tend to oversleep and oversleeping well you'll just burn slightly less calories if you oversleep but your circadian rythm won't be disturbed.
I have "Long Phase Idiopathic Hypersomnia" which I started to see the effects of around the age of 7-8 and has ebbed and flowed in varying degrees of severity over the years until I reached the age of 40 when it seemed to steadily get worse until it plateaued to the moderate to severe level it is at now (I'm 47). No matter how much sleep I get, my brain and body functions as if I'm 2-3 days sleep deprived...this is something I have gotten used to and compensate for pretty well so long as I'm strict about taking my sleep aid meds at night by a specific time to ward off insomnia and I at least get 4-6 hours of sleep during that period. The less sleep I get at night, the more hours of sleep deprivation that get added on to what I'm already naturally deprived of at baseline. This makes trying to get through the daylight hours absolutely hellish and when I start having more premature ventricular contractions than normal, that's when I know I've gone too far on not getting enough sleep at night and it is time for self-correct...cause if I don't, then I know the next symptom I'm going to start experiencing is Orthostatic Hypotension which can be potentially dangerous for me since it involves my heart rhythm getting thrown off, not just my blood pressure dropping. But, by far the worst part of this sleep disorder is the oversleeping. Because my sleep rhythms are abnormal my mind and body naturally want to sleep 10-16 hours. If I go with what my body and mind wants over a span of several days, I end up having symptoms similar to Fibromyalgia where I have widespread inflammation throughout my body, especially in my tendons and joints, I begin to experience blood thinning (which Doctors still can't figure out), and slow wound healing (I had bug bites on my legs from working out in the garden that I never scratched or picked at, but they took TWO MONTHS to heal...and even here a month later, there are a few dark marks that haven't fully gone yet)...and while the weight gain is a thing, I'm lucky that it is only 5-15 lbs that don't push me into the overweight category, and it goes as quickly as it comes on. Oh, and the headaches with oversleeping are not headaches...they are brain crushing migraines. So, the consequences on my physical wellbeing from over sleep, do seem more drastic than those I get from not sleeping enough. That being said, despite a well managed sleep routine, I still struggle with malfunctions of my autonomic nervous system that can cause dangerous spikes in my blood pressure (which is typically in the healthy range) out of no where, if I get upset...especially angry, my blood pressure can decide to just bottom out which is again, dangerous...my blood sugar too can totally bottom out, even when I have eaten recently. There have been many times it is like my brain forgot how to tell my mouth and esophagus how to work together to perform the act of swallowing and the scariest thing I have experienced is a hand full of times I was just about to fall asleep and my brain decided to just skip out on sending the signal for my lungs to expand...it takes me sitting up or standing up for my brain to go "OH! YEAH! MY BAD!" Again, all that latter stuff is when I'm getting proper sleep. This sleep disorder is no joke...and the necessity for just the right amount of sleep is not something to take for granted. Not getting enough and getting too much can literally end you way sooner than you'd like and the health issues it can cause before hand are in no way fun...they are debilitating.
Wow! The first thing I noticed and an really impressed by is your insight and awareness for what if happening and why. I can relate to having almost too accurate of insight and it seems to be benefiting you some in your life. I can relate to a lot of your symptoms and the struggle of not enough or too much sleep causing symptoms one way or another. I'm also diabetic and this of course is a main factor in my symptoms and moods and sleep. Since you mentioned blood sugar levels I was curious if you were also diabetic or not? With the insight you have I suspect your quite aware of how high and low can affect you as well as fluctuation. Anyways I hope your day is good.
It's scary how close this is to my experience. :( I am in my late 20s and have been (finally !!) diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnia a couple of years ago, and it's the first time I find such huge similarities with another person, notably how early it started, and the hypotension I was diagnosed with first that just gets worse with more sleep, let alone the feelings, blood acting up, and migraines that are pretty much the same and I hate it, I'm even suspecting some form of diabetes at this point... I can only sympathize. The only difference is I tend to loose a lot of weight because I don't eat at enough intervals, since I sleep all the time. Weight's been impossible to keep steady.
‘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.”
Bruh I literally cannot oversleep lmao 🤣 i wake up 6 hours after falling asleep i couldn't oversleep even if I wanted to. Which sucks because I love to sleep. Insomnia sucks. (And i h8 when people brag about not sleeping)
I've had acute mania, and you may not believe me, but I was a awake for 6 days. During these days I had no hallucinations. However I experienced imagine tearing, like light bending and beams of light opening randomly. I eventually edened up in the ER. Then I've delt with really, really really bad chronic depression and would sleep like 15 hours a day, wake up for like 6 hours then fall back alseep for another 15 hours. This went on for like 8 months. I remember I would always dream, and when I woke sometimes I couldn't tell if I was awake or not. Dont f uc k with sleep guys, its seriously bad shit. Get 8hrs and that's it. Ive recovered quite well, I'm getting 8hrs on average and I'm not depressed anymore.
@@bubblesxo first you need stuff to do. Get a job, get hobbies, find friends (irl not discord) ect. Excercise helps alot too. Go for walks, then work your way up from jogging to running. Do this 2, 3 times a week. Maybe do some push ups in the morning. Also watch what you eat, if you eat shit you'll feel like shit. If you can afford healthy foods, then learn to eat less, it's always better to eat better than more. Learn to be alone, because sometimes it's better to be with yourself or a few people. De stimulate, get off the phone, games ect. I struggle with this shit, but I'm working on it. Dont procrastinate, the longer shit doesn't get done, the harder it gets when it has to be done, that's what I've learned. Budget, dont spend money frivolously, save. Learn to be honest with yourself and others, you cant keep shit bottled up, it eats at you over time, partially why I went manic. Always do what makes you happy, life is pretty pointless if you're spending it in misery. I guess that's what I got my dude, good luck
@@doughnutsandcoffee8622 some ppl can’t sleep 8 hours I know ppl who need 10-12 or they can’t function right ppl wjth csncer or pots or MECFS also need more then 10 hours
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.
Have you ever paid attention to your own sleeping hours when you sick? You be sleeping for 18 hours, don't eat and afterwards you still don't have a headache. Exactly this, even in animals we see that old and sick will sleep a lot more compared to young and healthy. We are animals, surprise surprise
We live in an era where literally everyone is sleep deprived. Even when you think you're getting a good amount of sleep your not because it's not restful sleep. Light has various negative effects on sleep such as suppressing melatonin production and screwing over our circadian rhythm. A majority of people out there all the way up until bed are on their phones, on TV, on the computer, on youtube right now. Dim the lights down folks, do it hours before bed night just before bed. You start producing melatonin earlier than you think. Go to bed at the same time every night. Do something chill before bed rather than something really stimulating like video games. You'll sleep better. I thought I was a night owl for over 20+ years until I realized like a lot of sleep researchers state..... .... I wasn't a night owl, I practiced TERRIBLE sleep hygiene.
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
Perhaps I missed something about this in the video, but I'm curious how things such as an unhealthy diet, a lack of regular exercise, and depression (which seem to often go hand-in-hand) play into the negative affects associated with oversleeping. Basically, I'm wondering whether the aforementioned things significantly impacted the results of relevant sleep studies.
God said, “ My people perish for lack of knowledge.” I pray for Gods protection from evil and from lack of knowledge and from disobedience in Jesus name amen 🙏 Everyday.
Should I worry that I only over sleep when I'm off from school . During our holiday periods, I tend to sleep more, but when school starts, I get 7-8 hours .
For the longest time, specially during college, I slept around 4 hours a day only, sometimes less. Not only it was a stressing moment of my life, but sleeping those sweet 8 hours, 6 hours, or 4, always seemed to make me feel *bad*, so why not sleep less and enjoy more of the few days I have?
Because you spend those days worse. You should have at least 7h of sleep, it will make your day far better. And you can actually think for once. I once went a few months with less than 4h of sleep a day, and felt like the most braindead individual ever.
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.
That’s capitalist USA
@@qjtvaddict At least they're paid for it.
@@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?
@@NeillWylie They get paid well and chose the profession, if they don't like it do something else 🤷♂️
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
Does oversleeping cause problems, or do other problems cause oversleeping? I know my chronic illness has made me sleep more.
THIS! I have ADHD etc. and seriously... I would die physically and mentally if I didn't "oversleep".
@@Nagarath16 same. I have Fibromyalgia and unfortunately usually need 9 to 10 hours a day to function otherwise I'm almost totally useless
Both or either depending
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.
@@lucianaromulus1408 Same
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
why is this funny?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Learn to lucid dream normally
@@Mich-jk2ze I know how to, but I don't have many dreams anymore
I suffered from this very thing. The depression, the hypersomnia, and especially the dreams!
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.
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
I'm 17 and when I don't have an alarm I usually sleep for 12-14 hours ☠️
ikr i put my body through some crazy things as a teen
@@zomgioyou should put something on your schedule to wake up. even if its studying or excersize.
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.
correlation not causation! good catch
Cancer and pots and MECFS cause the same shir too tho bro
Yes correlation is not always causation
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.
Yes, also more stress and exercise or getting the flu mean you'll need more sleep
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
Did you even listen to the video. You feel tired all the time, even hours past 8 hours of sleep. I personally have fallen asleep for 18 hours straight
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
@@xxmusahd3695 Stop acting like you know what you're talking about, I swear you sleep till like 1pm.
Great logic. And if you have a dangerous addiction, just stop - or if you have debilitating depression, just be happy. WOW GENIUS
"You ever feel tired and groggy when you wake up?" "Do you find yourself getting annoyed in rush hour traffic?" "Want to prolong your life?" We got just the thing for you!!!
I definitely was a hypersomniac for a while. I was sleeping 11-13 hours, waking up severely tired, going back to sleep even after that. Now I get 8 hours, 12-8AM, and I’ve been feeling so much better since
may I ask how did you get better? im going thru it rn:(
@@teflons Try to set an alarm for 8 hours after you lay down and just make yourself get up until you get used to it. Try to also get decent exercise and things that work your mind during the day.
@@teflons Honestly there wasn’t a cure-all for me. I had even worse insomnia as a child, getting practically no sleep for most of my adolescence. What helped me was going to bed the same time each night and allowing myself to naturally wake up at whatever time, and then after a couple of weeks setting an alarm for the average time I’d wake up in the morning. I started to sleep around 12, and get up around 9. then after a month I’d change my alarm an hour ahead, so I’d be sleeping at 12, waking up at 8. Now I sleep at 13 and wake up at 7, no alarm needed and well rested. It’s a game of patience and commitment.
@@Washyourpoptarts lol I assume you're talking about sleeping at midnight, and if that's the case I don't think 13 comes after twelve 😂
@@teflons I can only speak for myself. I removed most of the carbs from my diet and supplement vitamin D in the evening. I sleep between 7.5 and 9 hours and don't need an alarm. The body is perfectly capable to wake up in time.
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.
Best wishes to your health. Did you try adding fresh veggies juice made in a juicer to help you?
@@KS-cl8br thanks ! Haven't been doing that, but I could probably eat more veggies lol
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.
@@gabeangel8104 I couldn't agree more
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.
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 😅
As a severely depressed person who also oversleeps a lot, I honestly have no problem with oversleeping reducing the lifespan.
Fellow depressionado here. Do you find you experience any levity or changes in mood/perspective in your dreams?
@@pringlebatch I don't dream. Like, at all.
honestly same. Even though I do dream but there either scary or just hella goofy. ( Had a dream where my choir teacher was wearing a furry suit 💀)
@@harukami912 are you sure?
What if you just don't remember when you wake up?
@@XxjeffersonDkidxX I *_RARELY_* dream, almost never.
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.
i've been up 17 hours to fix my sleeping schedule and i have autism.. maybe this is what i have :O
@@lannobile7260 i hate talking then forgetting what im saying
@@youtubeterminatedmyaccount8882 That coffee and screen time is probably what is doing you in.
Back when I lived with my family, I would sleep somewhere between 12-20 hours a day due to depression and just...fear of my family. Ever since I moved away, I still oversleep a tiny bit at times, usually a bit over 9 hours and sometimes, I sleep under 7 hours. Soooo, I never really get the perfect amount of sleep needed. It's actually really hard for me to maintain a normal sleeping schedule.
same
same here
what, 20 hours a day? That's not possible.
@@holliswilliams8426 oh, it very much is and I would not recommend it, you'd wake up like a vampire waking up a thousand years later lol
I wish America had free hostels like Europe and Canada, but sadly we live in a capitalist dystopia rather than a socialist utopia
Me oversleeping on antidepressants: guess I'll die
RIP
Me since diagnosed with underactive thyroid....
Me when my Crohns flairs up.
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.
Oversleeping >>>>>> undersleeping. When I oversleep, I feel well rested, can focus way easier, better memory, better mood, better everything.
Undersleeping, everything starts to fall apart.
oversleeping has been proven to make you feel more tired
@@combos7 it doesn’t MAKE you feel more tired it just reveals how tired you already were because it lower stress hormones by ALOT. A healthy person should be running on a thyroid and glucose oxidation dominant metabolism but most people aren’t healthy and constantly run on stress hormones dominated metabolisms. Take away the excessive adrenaline, cortisol, etc and they feel like shit and blame the extra sleep, when the extra sleep is just revealing how unhealthy you already were.
If I feel tired after extra sleep (which is not often for me), I get some food because that’s what my body needs
"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?
So many variables when trying to figure out the truth.
brb just taking a nap
particularly funny script. interesting subject. not sure about the channel rebrand...keep iterating.
The over sleep study might be very flawed because you shouldn't compare rats to humans they have different sleep cycles.
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 ❤
They do testing with rats because they do have rats with narcolepsy. With very good results. Guess it depends on the type of sleep study.
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've been told not getting enough sleep can kill me. Now sleeping too much can also kill me. 😭
Don’t worry school ruined any possibility of oversleeping for kids 😂
I either oversleep, or sleep a little, with difficulty to sleep. Always feeling bad
Exercise
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)
@@dot1910same
@@dot1910same any update?
"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.
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A week ago I was suffering from extreme sleep deprivation and extreme dehydration. I didn’t sleep at all for at least 3.5 days. This was one of the most painful and scariest moments in my life. To put it in perspective I have peptic ulcers and I puke until there is absolutely nothing left, not even bile. I got stuck in a loop where I couldn’t even hold water down, and would just puke it right back up. Because of the pain I was in, no matter how bad I wanted to sleep, I just couldn’t.
As for the effects of sleep deprivation, I began hallucinating “spiders” everywhere on the second day. They would scurry everywhere I look and would even combine into these mega spiders. But day 3, that’s where it really got scary. I became dyslexic. It’s very hard to describe, somehow my brain would scramble everything to something that makes absolutely no sense, it would completely scramble to the extent it wasn’t even scrambling letters, but words. For example: “This sentence right here.” Would look something completely non-sensical like “a hxdjs7 j 02h so l.” Thankfully I was able to force myself to chug water and get some sleep. But it was scary to think I was potentially getting BRAIN DAMAGE from that!!
Edit: I think the extreme effects I suffered were from the culmination of both sleep deprivation and dehydration. If I was JUST sleep deprived, I think it would not have been as severe!
Don't you going to the hospital? 😮
@@hnr9lt-pz7bn I live in the middle of nowhere and the VA is 2.5 hours away in another state. Also, I wouldn’t have trusted myself to drive if I couldn’t even read. Certain death!
Lol ig im gonna have a lot brain damage because I've spent more time than u not sleeping and I'm still here . Like I said in a comment before seeing yours my worst was sleeping only 70 hours during two months. Sometimes there was a whole week not sleeping and then a night of 4 hours. I was just waking up and going crazy because I knew from my past experience that i would not get any more sleep. It made me do dumb things. It was very difficult during 6 months. Each time I was sleeping more and more normally I would just freak out and think what if I cannot sleep. And after thinking that i couldn't sleep for a new period. It led me do drink, abusing meds and wanting to KMS with all those meds because it was too much sleep deprivation and I think he meds I abused were fucking with me greatly. So I made an attempt, inconscious and after that i was forcing myself to be grateful when I was having only an hour or two of sleep. Which is hard.
What made me have trouble sleeping was restless legs, a terrible life, the decision of stopping my heavy psych meds and panic attacks and jerks each time I was on the point of falling asleep.
It makes me angry to here that people have trouble with sleeping too much but I totally understand this is valid and bad for the health too.
this sounds like my worst nightmare, the spider things especially at least you got through it and it's over now
I have had this experience before. Not being able to keep water down is the most painful thing ever. I threw up until my throat felt raw. I never want to experience that again.
Very true. Sleeping too much is bad
Hello mak
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.
This Videos are bad for you.
during school I used to sleep 2-3 hours consistently for about 4 years, I now have to sleep over 10 hours a night to have the ability to go through my day without a long nap, I feel heavy and dizzy and have been sleeping like this for 2 or so years now and it's only getting worse. I'm stuck between deciding whether to sleep 10 hours at night or 8 hours like I should but then have a 4 hour nap later on, its hell and ripping my life to pieces
Sounds like something to see a doctor about. Maybe get your thyroid checked?
sleep 8 hours and thats it. Don't take any naps. Try the gym maybe, seems like you have chronic fatigue from not looking after yourself. Seriously hit the gym, plenty of cardio and weight lifting will help alot. Trust me been here before. Also see a doctor just to be safe.
You might have sleep apnea. Sounds like one.
@@FG-td4vs yea hitting tha gyms epic
Definitely looks like sleep apnea, you sleep 10 hours, but your quality of sleep is so bad that you are still somewhat sleep deprived.
I’m watching this video as someone who has been diagnosed with hypersomnia, narcolepsy, and severe clinical depression (chemical imbalance).
As testing showed, I automatically go into REM sleep and spend the entire night in REM, never truly achieving a deep sleep. Since my brain is active all day and all night, I feel I am constantly running on half-battery. And since I spend all night dreaming, I have a poor grasp of time and memory problems. The day before feels much longer ago than for others.
I wish I weren’t so tired right now.
I am suspecting that I might suffer from hypersomnia. I can easily sleep more than 13 h (one time I slept for 24 h). I don't wake up from alarms too easily (can snooze for hours before I realise whats happening,) and I am also almost always tired and I suffer constant headaches and pain in my joints. I have moments here and there where my sleep works but more often than not I always have issues with sleep. I also feel like my dreams are very long and intense and its almost like living a whole other life in those dreams, making waking up confusing hard difficult :o
I prolly don't have hypersomnia but it seem to fit me so well.
As a narcoleptic I can jokingly say:
We got the best of both worlds
@@miegravgaardxoxo me too. I have narcolepsy too!
Only that I've got crazy memory enhancement rather than memory deficit
@@Jarmezrocks You think thats related to ur narcolepsy?
@@miegravgaardxoxo well I am not sure? It's just a guess? I'm proof of subliminal learning though? I slept through most of my university science degree and still got high distinctions, distinctions and only a few credits?
I could hear everything going on when I was completely asleep? I can go into REM sleep in 15 seconds? I didn't get diagnosed for narcolepsy until 3 years after my uni degree 🤭
So I have a science degree and then specialised in GIS spatial mapping and cartography? I slept the MOST in my GIS class? I could internally visualise everything in my dreams?
Our lecturer at University became annoyed with me always sleeping in class because it distracted others poking fun at me; so the teacher made an example out of me and it backfired? Lol he yelled my name and snapped me awake out of my sleep and was standing there with a white board marker; then he asked me to do the complex reasoning answer on the board?
I looked at it? And thought .. Hmm I can answer this! It was one of those trick questions of b finding the an area of a really really obscure waterbody that cross sectioned 5 or 6 parcels with various known attributes but not all attributes in all fields?
I stepped through a multi part calculation and thinking of it in reverse? Like if you can calculate all of the known areas then the obscure shape is basically the the total area minus all the known areas 😉
It seemed simple to me at the time?
Anyway the teacher said 'very good please sit down and please come and see me after class!'
I thought he was pissed at me? Low and behold he handed me another sheet of paper and asked me to do the complex reasoning questions from a previous year exam even though we hadn't learnt all of the course material yet? He asked me to talk him though it and I got 3 out of 4, 100% right and he corrected me in the 4th one because I was on the right track and then I changed my mind to answer it another way and he said.....'no keep going you were going right in the first attempt.... See if you can answer it?'
I then left University and got employment with a company known as ESRI 😉
My a year later my teacher rang the company for support. I had tech support put the call through to my desk. He was was amazed to hear my voice. The end/
PS. I can literally slow mo, play, pause, rewind and fast forward any kind of physically visualised video or imagined created video like it's a movie? This isn't normal
Am watching this to try and motivate myself to resist my chronic napping 😭😭 idk if it’s going to work
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 💀
I feel this. How you doing now?
@@cookiegirl891 Way better. Thanks for asking
I hope you are alright now
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 ☺️
9-10 hours is actually still within a healthy range for sleep, especially if you're a younger person! You don't have to worry much.
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.
Stop the cap
It's been shown in studies of blue zones that community is a strong factor in longevity. It wouldn't surprise me that much of the negatives associated with mental illness, poor sleep, and illness are inversely correlated to a strong sense of place within your social sphere. Also Im sure much of those things cause each other, any one can cause the other in any direction.
Empathy and connection are the antithesis to dissociation and separation. Life vs death in a sense. Meaningful relationships, while not a cure all, are vital to forming healthy lifestyles. They also just give you a reason to get up in the morning.
That explains why I oversleep and look forward to my next snooze…
Yeah but society is toxic now.
I believe in this
I have to make soooooo much effort to keep my relationships with people and they just don't seem to give it back...
Relatable, my health gets exponentially better away from my parents, even a sidewalk feels like a five stars hotel.
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
@@Auden. *work out.
But yes, I think I agree. A one day fast is often a good idea
@@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. :)
If sleeping more than 8 hours carries a risk of heart disease, obesity and diabetes, how does that align with the studies that show that sleeping more helps with not getting obese but improves body composition, performance enhancement and building more muscle with less fat cumulation? Like the results were not only that sleeping enough improves this, but that sleeping "too much" as well. To me those improvements in body and performance are directly in opposition with heart disease, obesity and diabetes. For example athletes don't look obese or diabetic but try to sleep as much as they are able to.
This begs the question: what kind of studies were exactly performed and on who? Was it backwards conclusions from correlation to causation? Like people who are obese and diabetic (perhaps undergoing increased inflammation) or have some other sickness that alters life and behavior sleeping more due to their condition having more recovery demands instead of sleeping too much causing it? Depressed people often sleep a lot, but is depression caused by sleeping too much? Was caffeine usage monitored in these tests? From what I've understood body is generally very good at regulating sleep needs, like you find that you can't sleep once you wake up after certain period of time. And on the other hand you might feel tired if your sleep quality was poor and feel the need to sleep more. Similarly to being sleep deprived you might sleep more, and on the other hand when you've been well rested and relaxed you might find yourself sleeping a bit less. Unless: there's conditions that affect that. But just like modern people drinking too much caffeine and affecting their sleep quality and having a need to sleep more than the average.
You did provide a lot of studies as reference, but like a normal internet person, I didn't read through them, and I doubt I'm qualified enough to spot all the things in the studies that can be concerns regarding making strong conclusions from the results. I'm also not sure if some of the conclusions were based on mechanistic studies, which regarding human body always feel a bit iffy unless there's also a practical study showing that it has a noticeable impact in real life situations. Are there many studies that show no effect or contrary effect (other than sports science)? In summary, I gained a lot of new information from the video, but I'm still not convinced that it's more than an indicator of underlying issue rather than possible cause of health conditions.
Thanks for the video and especially thanks for listing all the source studies, that's a huge part of transferring educational science content - to challenge viewers to not only think about it but also do their own reading on the topic and verifying what they hear. Obviously most, like I admitted before of myself, are not qualified to analyze the studies regarding study population and methods and conclusions, but at least they can check that these studies exist and that they said what you heard. And I believe part of educational science is not only to spread information/knowledge, but also challenge what was said and what they heard and bring some discussion (obviously in respectful manner and basing arguments on something, I don't mean just throwing conspiracies in or using extremely biased sources). It might lead to the persons involved agreeing or disagreeing, but everyone should be more informed afterwards, no matter the stance or belief.
I‘ll just answer something here so I get notified when someone responds, as I‘m also curious about that
Good to know, but I think under sleeping is the real issue in the US, by a mile. Would love a vid on the physiological effects of sleep deprivation!
I’m not sure if it was depression but I would prefer my dreams than reality for a few years. Especially after graduating because I now had the time and covid happened. Extremely lucid dreams. I fell I love with someone in my dreams and I would have the same dreams again and again so I could go back and do things differently or do them all over again. Sometimes I wanted answers from my subconscious, other times I wanted it to sweep me away. I felt like I was actually going somewhere.
Same here. I'm not depressed while dreaming
I had dreams of a girl that I fell in love with too. Swear they were real emotions.. I was happy.
@@dgtails
Wish i felt the same, depression seeped into my dreams recently.
Bro I had the coolest dreams when I slept alot
Now that I'm more productive irl I lost a girl I found in my dreams who I called "tchar"
Still miss her 2 years later
For several years, I was almost always in a dissociative state when I was awake, and my dreams nearly always felt more "real" than "real life" itself. My memories of dreams and real life started mixing themselves up, and I just got more and more disoriented as time passed.
Real life feels vivid when depression eases up, and vivid dreams go back to being vivid dreams.
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'm 30 & the same way. It's always took me usually an hour or more to get woke up in the mornings
@@stuflikethis I always sleep through my alarms
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
As someone who is in med school and actually gets 8 hour sleep I feel validated. My peers seem to belive you should sleep less and latter into the night in order be an university type adult. Also there is a heavy reliance on coffe that just don't seems safe.
I find it peculiar that the people who should know best of all about the dangers of lack of sleep and excessive use of stimulants tend to be the worst offenders and force others in the medical field to do it as well.
Well, heavy reliance on coffee is definitely not ideal.
I am on both sides of the argument
during peak work times I sleep late and little, knowing full well that this isn't ideal
to be honest though, i do find myself working best at night. I think my brain works only after sundown lmao
Oversleeping is worse than smoking LMAO 💀💀
As someone who suffers from sleep apnea, I could sleep nearly an entire day before starting CPAP. Now with CPAP, I sleep at most 8 to 9 hours. I feel much better now.
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.
:( I hope you can get better soon!
@@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
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...
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
I wish this video focused on just oversleeping. There's already countless sources on sleep deprivation but not enough people focus on oversleeping
So I don’t eat badly I just sleep too much. Nice.
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
I do that and a couple of times when I was young I actually slept for 24hours loved it.
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.
Source???
@@thedoommarine9174 A book by a neuroscientist specialized in sleep, Matthew Walker "Why we sleep"
@@erfho8y Thanks, I’ll check it out.
So technically 6 hours is enough sleep for a day?
God dang bro seems like everything leads to Alzheimer’s
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.
Exactly
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
I work night shifts and sometimes need to sleep 12 hours the following day to recover from being awake all night. Maybe too much sleep can harm my body but working nights without enough chance to recover definitely would.
I quit my county job because of night shifts
Yeah, I cycle between 12 hour day and 12 hour night shifts and I often stay up for 24-30 hours followed by 12-14 hours of sleep. I know this isn't great but.......
I also do a compressed shift, there are times that during holidays the company will request overtime and put it at unlimited. When you hit 60 hrs you get double time and if you work nights you also get 15% more pay than day. So when this happens we have a lot of people that will work 16 hr days. Sometimes 4-6 days in a row so they can basically make their entire months pay in this one week of OT. Even the Holiday time is payed in double time. It is not a healthy way to work at all , but with the capitalism getting greedier and greedier, some people have to work like this to make ends meet.
Over sleeping is better than dealing with toxic men and women which is everyone. I love sleep because it's the only thing that loves me.
My sleep schedule is like combining oversleeping and sleep deprivation. It's very common for me to sleep around 10-13 hours "daily". Then again when something has to be actually done, I have to stay awake and then being awake for 18-40+ hours is usual. Some times after a long period of being awake, and/or getting short sleep for a few days, I may sleep 16-20+ hours. I've been asleep for 20 hours without getting up at any point. One time I slept for 22 hours. I have kind of "sliding" sleep schedule and every once in a while it just goes to "normal mode" out of the blue, with pretty much spontaneous waking up at mornings and natural need for sleep in the evenings. Though it is very uncommon and usually lasts for maybe a month at a time, max. I do think I have autism, sort of an ADHD, but kinda without the hyperactive part and interest toward perfectionism. Often times when the night comes, I feel the need to get something (projects) done or watch youtube, gather information on something etc. My inconsistent sleeping habits have wreaked havoc to my employment and integration towards society and as things sit, I don't really see other options than to become a sort of an entrepreneur. There are those mornings that I simply can't get out of bed but it is not accepted in any part of "proper" society, even though I would do a shit ton of work to even overcompensate the loss of working hours.
If your mind is racing, you have hyperactivity, just in the mind.
Also, I relate to this type of sleep schedule, I've been actively trying to staying awake for 36 hours (4-6am - 4-6pm the next day) and sleep for 12, because when I get 12 hours exactly, I feel bloody fantastic, refreshed, able to take the next "cycle" (day-night-day awake) on by the horns. When I get 9, I can function, but any less and the day is ruined, I literally cannot do much, maybe one productive thing if I force myself.
So far, I can stretch it to 24 hours before conking out. Which is no good cause it throws the whole schedule out of whack.
I am the same way. At night time I have this weird burst of energy due to my adhd brain which makes me want to be more productive or do things I enjoy which can affect my sleep.
Same here
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 am oversleeping.. everyday.. and i feel completeky railed every day.. i‘m in some kind of trance in every attempt to wake up.. and then i will fall asleep again.. i dont know what to do.
This literally finishes me.. and takes a lot of quality out of my life.
I feel like people are looking for ridiculous explanations why oversleeping causes all those things, but by now we should know by now that correlation doesn't mean causation. Oversleeping in my opinion is a symptom, not the culprit.
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.
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.
Duck tape is safer and more effective than a cpap machine. One piece of it can last a week too so very inexpensive compared to the 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.
Don’t sleep too much! Don’t sleep too little! Everything is bad and there’s no hope
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.
Too little sleep is bad for you, too much sleep is bad for you. Man the human body f*cking sucks
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 don't think I can handle sleeping less than 9 hours a day.
I get nine hours, sometimes 10 but it seems to work for me though everyone's sleep needs are different also I'm a night owl so I stay up late anyway also I live a healthy life style I love to exersise and I eat healthy so chances are I wont have to worry about any sort of disease anyway
"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 disagree with some of this. I think its way more important to get too much sleep than it is to get no sleep at all. Sleep is miracle working for healing the body.
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.
sounds like pseudoscience
I love sleeping but find the need for extra sleep less when I do regular strength training (feels like a deeper more restorative sleep)
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I had a dream that Jordan Peterson slapped me with a fish because I didn't clean my room. Then I woke up and realized it wasn't a dream
Watching this video past 2am when I have to get up early 🤦♂️
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'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.
Most if not all chronic sleeping problems have an underlying or associated condition, they're not a choice
Reffering to an individuals insomnia or hypersomnia as if that is the main problem itself and does not need further investigation is medical gaslighting
It does real harm to real people
We can all do better than that, so let's
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.
Same my sweet spot is about 6½ hours.
I think we should be very cautious about trying to establish causal links from purely correlational research. Unless we control for all influencing factors and force people to oversleep in a controlled environment, we cannot be sure that all these issues are specifically associated with sleep. All we know is that sleep length is ASSOCIATED and CONNECTED in some way to various health problems. An open wound may be associated with bleeding, but you wouldn't blame the wound or the blood for causing themselves, would you? Something else caused BOTH effects. Without appropriate experimentation, you cannot determine the cause of ANYTHING and you should not be implying so because it's misleading. It's also incredibly harmful. For all we know, oversleeping is the body's way of compensating for issues elsewhere in the body and actually performs a mediating effect (without which, consequences would be far greater and more problematic!).
If you do not understand basic scientific principles, please be more careful about how you present your videos. If you do? I suggest going back and reading up on some old textbooks about ethical practice and the difference between correlation and causation. Many problems, especially health problems, are multifactorial and can be quite nebulous, so it's important not to point the finger at one behaviour or one cause without appropriate evidence. Again, very harmful and misleading.
Cancer pots MECFS all cause over sleepinf too sone ppl just need 10 hours or more so mant health proglems cause more sleepinf as well
Also Covid now causes it too long covid dose it now like there’s so many reason for sleepinf over 10 hours but when your sleeping 10-16 hours a day that’s a problem tho we need 8-9 max that’s it anything els is a problem
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.
😂
Ah! So that's the secret!
😂😂 good to know
It's a fact evil people live longer lol
@@julysses1355so Stalin and H-man weren’t evil? lol
Laughs in 12-14 hour sleeps
It is hard to oversleep though for normal people. Most people are under sleeping by a lot.
Apparently everything kills us. Everything. I just wish it would either hurry up and get the job over with or stop making it so frustrating, tortuous, and disappointing on the way. Jesus.
I used to work with a man who slept upwards of 14 hours each day his entire adult life. He looked to be in his early thirties but was actually 48.
I believe you 100%. It seems people who get adequate sleep age less. I bet he hardly had wrinkles
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.
Yeah, i also think that way.
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
Take your own advice and stop making silly assumptions 🙄
Me with depression and constantly tired
same. I’ve been sleeping all day today. just forced myself to eat now I want to go back to sleep
Get well soon.💙 At least you ate something. Depression sucks.
I slept for 36 hours straight last week. When I woke up and peed it was a dark orangish-brown. It was a terrible experience and also the longest I've done a long sleep. I don't know why this happens sometimes.
Oh wow!
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.
Your not the only one I suffer from obstructive sleep apnea and it sucks
I think it's just if you have a damaged body, then you tend to oversleep and oversleeping well you'll just burn slightly less calories if you oversleep but your circadian rythm won't be disturbed.
I have "Long Phase Idiopathic Hypersomnia" which I started to see the effects of around the age of 7-8 and has ebbed and flowed in varying degrees of severity over the years until I reached the age of 40 when it seemed to steadily get worse until it plateaued to the moderate to severe level it is at now (I'm 47). No matter how much sleep I get, my brain and body functions as if I'm 2-3 days sleep deprived...this is something I have gotten used to and compensate for pretty well so long as I'm strict about taking my sleep aid meds at night by a specific time to ward off insomnia and I at least get 4-6 hours of sleep during that period.
The less sleep I get at night, the more hours of sleep deprivation that get added on to what I'm already naturally deprived of at baseline. This makes trying to get through the daylight hours absolutely hellish and when I start having more premature ventricular contractions than normal, that's when I know I've gone too far on not getting enough sleep at night and it is time for self-correct...cause if I don't, then I know the next symptom I'm going to start experiencing is Orthostatic Hypotension which can be potentially dangerous for me since it involves my heart rhythm getting thrown off, not just my blood pressure dropping.
But, by far the worst part of this sleep disorder is the oversleeping. Because my sleep rhythms are abnormal my mind and body naturally want to sleep 10-16 hours. If I go with what my body and mind wants over a span of several days, I end up having symptoms similar to Fibromyalgia where I have widespread inflammation throughout my body, especially in my tendons and joints, I begin to experience blood thinning (which Doctors still can't figure out), and slow wound healing (I had bug bites on my legs from working out in the garden that I never scratched or picked at, but they took TWO MONTHS to heal...and even here a month later, there are a few dark marks that haven't fully gone yet)...and while the weight gain is a thing, I'm lucky that it is only 5-15 lbs that don't push me into the overweight category, and it goes as quickly as it comes on. Oh, and the headaches with oversleeping are not headaches...they are brain crushing migraines.
So, the consequences on my physical wellbeing from over sleep, do seem more drastic than those I get from not sleeping enough. That being said, despite a well managed sleep routine, I still struggle with malfunctions of my autonomic nervous system that can cause dangerous spikes in my blood pressure (which is typically in the healthy range) out of no where, if I get upset...especially angry, my blood pressure can decide to just bottom out which is again, dangerous...my blood sugar too can totally bottom out, even when I have eaten recently. There have been many times it is like my brain forgot how to tell my mouth and esophagus how to work together to perform the act of swallowing and the scariest thing I have experienced is a hand full of times I was just about to fall asleep and my brain decided to just skip out on sending the signal for my lungs to expand...it takes me sitting up or standing up for my brain to go "OH! YEAH! MY BAD!"
Again, all that latter stuff is when I'm getting proper sleep. This sleep disorder is no joke...and the necessity for just the right amount of sleep is not something to take for granted. Not getting enough and getting too much can literally end you way sooner than you'd like and the health issues it can cause before hand are in no way fun...they are debilitating.
That sounds like a living hell. Sorry to hear about your illness.
❤ Sorry to read about your sleep illness, i sincerely hope you find SOME KIND of relief & SOON ❤
🌞Best Wishes🌞
Wow! The first thing I noticed and an really impressed by is your insight and awareness for what if happening and why. I can relate to having almost too accurate of insight and it seems to be benefiting you some in your life.
I can relate to a lot of your symptoms and the struggle of not enough or too much sleep causing symptoms one way or another. I'm also diabetic and this of course is a main factor in my symptoms and moods and sleep. Since you mentioned blood sugar levels I was curious if you were also diabetic or not? With the insight you have I suspect your quite aware of how high and low can affect you as well as fluctuation.
Anyways I hope your day is good.
It's scary how close this is to my experience. :(
I am in my late 20s and have been (finally !!) diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnia a couple of years ago, and it's the first time I find such huge similarities with another person, notably how early it started, and the hypotension I was diagnosed with first that just gets worse with more sleep, let alone the feelings, blood acting up, and migraines that are pretty much the same and I hate it, I'm even suspecting some form of diabetes at this point... I can only sympathize. The only difference is I tend to loose a lot of weight because I don't eat at enough intervals, since I sleep all the time. Weight's been impossible to keep steady.
‘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.”
Bruh I literally cannot oversleep lmao 🤣 i wake up 6 hours after falling asleep i couldn't oversleep even if I wanted to. Which sucks because I love to sleep. Insomnia sucks. (And i h8 when people brag about not sleeping)
I've had acute mania, and you may not believe me, but I was a awake for 6 days. During these days I had no hallucinations. However I experienced imagine tearing, like light bending and beams of light opening randomly. I eventually edened up in the ER.
Then I've delt with really, really really bad chronic depression and would sleep like 15 hours a day, wake up for like 6 hours then fall back alseep for another 15 hours. This went on for like 8 months. I remember I would always dream, and when I woke sometimes I couldn't tell if I was awake or not.
Dont f uc k with sleep guys, its seriously bad shit. Get 8hrs and that's it.
Ive recovered quite well, I'm getting 8hrs on average and I'm not depressed anymore.
how did u recover because that’s me rn i sleep for so long and when i’m awake i just wanna die
@@bubblesxo first you need stuff to do. Get a job, get hobbies, find friends (irl not discord) ect. Excercise helps alot too. Go for walks, then work your way up from jogging to running. Do this 2, 3 times a week. Maybe do some push ups in the morning. Also watch what you eat, if you eat shit you'll feel like shit. If you can afford healthy foods, then learn to eat less, it's always better to eat better than more. Learn to be alone, because sometimes it's better to be with yourself or a few people. De stimulate, get off the phone, games ect. I struggle with this shit, but I'm working on it. Dont procrastinate, the longer shit doesn't get done, the harder it gets when it has to be done, that's what I've learned. Budget, dont spend money frivolously, save. Learn to be honest with yourself and others, you cant keep shit bottled up, it eats at you over time, partially why I went manic. Always do what makes you happy, life is pretty pointless if you're spending it in misery. I guess that's what I got my dude, good luck
Some ppl need more then 10 hours bro?
@@doughnutsandcoffee8622 some ppl can’t sleep 8 hours I know ppl who need 10-12 or they can’t function right ppl wjth csncer or pots or MECFS also need more then 10 hours
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 :)
Change your diet. That’s what worked for me. No more processed foods or sugar really helps. Also take digestive enzymes with meals.
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
Try Water fasting 3-4 days and slowly introduce gentle foods, before eating try lemos water or Apple Vinegar. Helped me alot.
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.
this needs a 30-year research study of the effects of under and oversleeping
Have you ever paid attention to your own sleeping hours when you sick?
You be sleeping for 18 hours, don't eat and afterwards you still don't have a headache.
Exactly this, even in animals we see that old and sick will sleep a lot more compared to young and healthy.
We are animals, surprise surprise
We live in an era where literally everyone is sleep deprived. Even when you think you're getting a good amount of sleep your not because it's not restful sleep. Light has various negative effects on sleep such as suppressing melatonin production and screwing over our circadian rhythm. A majority of people out there all the way up until bed are on their phones, on TV, on the computer, on youtube right now.
Dim the lights down folks, do it hours before bed night just before bed. You start producing melatonin earlier than you think. Go to bed at the same time every night. Do something chill before bed rather than something really stimulating like video games. You'll sleep better. I thought I was a night owl for over 20+ years until I realized like a lot of sleep researchers state..... .... I wasn't a night owl, I practiced TERRIBLE sleep hygiene.
This worries me... when my wife isn't at work she sleeps from 11-12 at night until 2-3 in the afternoon... She LOVES sleeping a long time.
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
I agree with her. I think it is just fine.
But what if you don't feel like you've gotten enough sleep until you've slept at least 9-12 hours?
Perhaps I missed something about this in the video, but I'm curious how things such as an unhealthy diet, a lack of regular exercise, and depression (which seem to often go hand-in-hand) play into the negative affects associated with oversleeping.
Basically, I'm wondering whether the aforementioned things significantly impacted the results of relevant sleep studies.
God said, “ My people perish for lack of knowledge.” I pray for Gods protection from evil and from lack of knowledge and from disobedience in Jesus name amen 🙏 Everyday.
Should I worry that I only over sleep when I'm off from school . During our holiday periods, I tend to sleep more, but when school starts, I get 7-8 hours .
For the longest time, specially during college, I slept around 4 hours a day only, sometimes less. Not only it was a stressing moment of my life, but sleeping those sweet 8 hours, 6 hours, or 4, always seemed to make me feel *bad*, so why not sleep less and enjoy more of the few days I have?
Because you spend those days worse. You should have at least 7h of sleep, it will make your day far better. And you can actually think for once. I once went a few months with less than 4h of sleep a day, and felt like the most braindead individual ever.
You can't sleep consistently less than 6 hours and be well. Sleep deprivation leads to insônia.
Just do what your body tells you to do and youll be fine.
Especially sugar cravings 👍
Thanks man, I was just recovering from drugs but now I see I must do what must be done.
Not really it's a joke.
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