Sleep deprivation on.. Productivity

Struggling to function… again?

If you’re suffering inadequate sleep, it’s no shock to you that
studies show 29% of workplace errors are caused by lack of sleep.

These side effects are directly due to the effects of inadequate sleep: research notes (brain region) the frontal lobe,
governing attention, decision making and motivation, is severely impacted by sleep insufficiency.
This brain region is also responsible for time management too - so if you’re often late on a lack of sleep, that’s why.

Another research study found being awake for 17 hours (e.g. getting up at 6am, still awake at 11pm),
you have the performance level of someone with a BAC of 0.05 - as in, you’re drunk.
Would you actually expect yourself to perform at your best while drunk?

And in terms of your memory and ability to recall information - without REM and Slow Wave Sleep sleep, you’ll struggle.

Clinical papers pinpoint one of the key functions of deep sleep is to consolidate memories from short term storage to long term storage -
the difference between you remembering something temporarily and being able to draw upon it in days or months to come.

Further, evidence shows beta amyloid, a brain neurotoxin to contribute to memory loss,
increases by 30% after a night without sleep. Building up in the brain,
the more chronic your sleep loss; the worse memory loss becomes.
For anyone who has had a family member with Alhziemer’s, they may be familiar with the term beta-amyloid:
a hallmark of the illness is the abnormally high level of this compound in their brain.

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