🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE: A small segment of the population are born with superhuman sleep needs. They’re called natural short sleepers, and they wake up refreshed and wide awake on very little sleep. And these individuals share a few other quirks, too.
What do Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Martha Stewart have in common? They’re part of the one percent.one percent. Instead, we’re referring to the one percent of people who thrive on far less sleep than what is recommended by doctors and researchers. Scientists call them natural short sleepers.
It’s sort of like being both a night owl and early riser at the same time. And, unsurprisingly, this group has caught the interest of researchers due to their sleep efficiency. If most people routinely got less than six hours of sleep, they’d form a sleep debt and might start to notice consequences for their mood, brain functioning and overall health. But for the short sleeper, none of this happens.Genuine short sleepers don’t depend on caffeine or naps to keep them going, Fu said. Nor do they spend their weekends or vacations catching up on Z’s.
Fu has met a lot of short sleepers in her work, from all walks of life. She says many of them have a number of traits in common. , another team of researchers at the Center for Applied Genomics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia found that the presence of the DEC2 variation also improved performance on mental tasks when sleep deprived for 38 hours. The genetic case for short sleep was made even strongeranother rare genetic difference found in families of short sleepers, a rare genetic mutation called ADRB1.
“There are many short sleepers who live quiet and normal lives, such as farmers or [they] have regular jobs. But they are satisfied and happy with their lives,” Fu said.But no matter what they do with all of that extra time on their hands, short sleepers seem to be a pretty content bunch. It’s not totally clear why so many short sleepers report high levels of happiness and life satisfaction.
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