Most people need around 8 hours of sleep each night to function, but a rare genetic condition allows some to thrive on as little as 3 hours. Scientists genetically modified mice 🐭 to carry this human mutation and confirmed this. The research team now knows several hundred naturally short sleepers 💤.
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Nature
Don’t need much sleep? Mutation linked to thriving with little rest
Nature - The genetic variant is one of a handful that have been identified in people who don’t need a lot of sleep.
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‘My brain doesn’t get tired’ 🧠✨: the secret of natural short sleepers 💤🌙
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Thetimes
‘My brain doesn’t get tired’: the secret of natural short sleepers
Lynne White, 82, thrives on only three hours a night. Now researchers believer her rare genetic mutation may hold the key to improving all our sleep
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