The scientist told what people can sleep four hours a day

The Sputnik news agency published a new interview with the head of the laboratory of sleep neurobiology and

wakefulness at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences by Vladimir Dorokhov, in which the scientist told how people can sleep four hours a day.

Despite the fact that the generally accepted norm of sleepis about eight hours, there are people who do not need much time to get enough sleep. Dorokhov noted that such people could include Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Churchill, Margaret Thatcher. It was in the latter, in turn, that the gene for short sleep was discovered. According to the scientist, people with the presence of this gene can sleep only four hours a day and not feel sleep deprived during the day.

However, the scientist noted that relying on experiencesuch people are not worth it. For most people, it is still fatal to reduce the amount of sleep. “There are scientific studies that show that those who slept little for a long time had their lives shortened by 10-15 years. This happens because various “errors” accumulate in the body. Sleep is needed to “repair” everything every night. our body,” Dorokhov shared.