Margaret Hilda, a former Prime Minister of UK, was known for only needing four hour sleep to function properly.
Jack Dorsey, the CEO of both Twitter and payments company Square recently said,
I don’t sleep much, but it’s enough.
So the question arises that how is it possible that these people can function properly and be productive regardless of less sleep.
A team of researchers from University of California may finally have the answer.
The Secret Behind Sleeping Less
According to reports published by the University of California, the secret behind the less sleep and productive performance is due to our genes.
It was concluded from a research study, that the group of people able to survive and function even after a few hours of sleep had something in common: a mutation in the gene known as DEC2.
Born Different
Dr. Ying-Hui Fu, a neuroscience professor and author of the research told that these people were born this way; that they don’t need more sleep.
“They feel energetic and awake even after only a few hours’ sleep. They can often hold down more than one job and still maintain good mental health”, she explained.
She referred to them as “efficient sleepers”:
Whatever our brain needs to do in out eight hours for you and me, it can be done in four hours in these people.
The bad news is that this gene is rare among the people, commonly less than 1% of them are estimated to have it.
New Drug To Help You Sleep Less
The professor assures that these findings may lead to the development of an innovative drug which can bring in the same results as that ‘sleeping-less gene’.
She elaborated by saying,
Someday that’s a real possibility. If we can understand what makes these people sleep more efficiently, we can come up with some idea of how to safely regulate our sleep effect through drug development
With gene editing techniques such as CRISPR on the rise, genes like these could become commonplace in the future. For now that future is a distant possibility.
wow… Is there a technology of ‘gene’ transplant? I sleep 10 hours and still need more :((((
Sleep by 11 PM and wake up by 4 AM and sleep half an hour in afternoon. It will be enough. Try it.
11 pm sleep kar jaein to 12 k baad wala package kon use kare ga?? haha :D
12 AM wala package subha 9 bajay tak hota hai, so use it in early morning with less data traffic and better internet performance.
Enjoy early morning routine and feel the difference starting from day one…
Bhai dil pe hi le gaye ho… :P JK
You are sleep too much. I usually sleep by 10:30 pm -11:00 pm and again wake up by 5 am feeling fresh and active whole day.
However, once I sleep more hours in Sundays I feel sleepy whole day. So sleep less to live active
Good. Sleep less to live active & energetic. Agreed!