{"id":2355,"date":"2015-06-21T06:39:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T10:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2015-06-21T06:39:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T10:39:23","slug":"sleep-deprivation-six-ways-being-tired-can-damage-your-life-abc-news-australian-broadcasting-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/21\/sleep-deprivation-six-ways-being-tired-can-damage-your-life-abc-news-australian-broadcasting-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep deprivation: Six ways being tired can damage your life &#8211; ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-06-21\/six-ways-sleep-deprivation-can-damage-your-life\/6553232\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/6561394-3x2-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Melinda Jackson is a senior research fellow at RMIT University&#8217;s Health Sciences school who has investigated sleep&#8217;s effect on the body. She said despite commonly held beliefs that people could easily catch up on a string of late nights by having a long sleep on weekends, it may be much harder to regain normal functioning once we have become sleep deprived.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Fantastic data has just come out, laboratory data, that has shown that after a week of sleep restriction it might actually take five nights of 12 hours&#8217; time in bed for someone&#8217;s performance to come back to their baseline level,&#8221; Dr Jackson said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>When we looked specifically at the worst sleepers &#8230; they were more than five times more likely to have preclinical Alzheimer&#8217;s disease than good sleepers Yo-El Ju, assistant professor of neurology at Washington University<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-06-21\/six-ways-sleep-deprivation-can-damage-your-life\/6553232\">Sleep deprivation: Six ways being tired can damage your life &#8211; ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melinda Jackson is a senior research fellow at RMIT University&#8217;s Health Sciences school who has investigated sleep&#8217;s effect on the body. She said despite commonly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}