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Their wordsGiven what we know about sleep loss, that conclusion makes sense—but being reasonable isn’t the same thing as being proven.
Their wordsSleep is a lever on body composition, metabolism, and mood, and deprivation pulls in the wrong direction across nearly every axis at once.
Their wordsPopulation-level studies will keep struggling to prove that short sleep shortens life, because they are structurally unable to separate cause from symptom—and the genetic tools meant to overcome this limitation inherit a different fatal flaw.
Their wordsSo a rough night here and there is nothing to agonize over.