Have you done an explicit calculation of your perceived increased risk in Alzheimer’s and compared it to QALY (potentially) gained by decreasing amount of sleep?
I’m sleeping less than many people, and I usually feel powerful enough at 6.5h per day (including actually falling asleep). Though it is a fragile balance that can be tipped to headache easily, and then it isn’t net-positive anymore. But again, I’m most worried about my brain not getting enough time to cleanup stuff and this over time adding up without me noticing and then losing a lot of QUALYs later. So I want to be sure to be sufficiently far away from the point where stuff builds up.
Have you done an explicit calculation of your perceived increased risk in Alzheimer’s and compared it to QALY (potentially) gained by decreasing amount of sleep?
I’m sleeping less than many people, and I usually feel powerful enough at 6.5h per day (including actually falling asleep). Though it is a fragile balance that can be tipped to headache easily, and then it isn’t net-positive anymore. But again, I’m most worried about my brain not getting enough time to cleanup stuff and this over time adding up without me noticing and then losing a lot of QUALYs later. So I want to be sure to be sufficiently far away from the point where stuff builds up.