Sara Song's " Sleeping Your Way to the Top"

In Sora Song’s article, “sleeping your way to the top”, (C) she explains that dangers in not get the suggested amount of sleep. She states that 71% American adults and 85% of American teens are sleep deprived. Depriving the body of an efficient amount of sleep can be detrimental to the body and the mind. She explains that while sleep deprivation is a condition that people adapt to over time, sleep deprivation can lead to very serious health problems. People lack knowledge about he repercussions of being sleep deprived so they do not realize the dangers in starving the body of sleep. Sleep is the body's way of ensuring the body can function properly Not getting good night’s sleep is more detrimental than people realize, depriving yourself of a good nights sleep can impair your concentration, cause fatigue and make you less productive.
When the body is sleep deprived it adapts to the condition, the effects sleep deprivation can cause may go unnoticed even while the body's cognitive performance declines. “The human brain is only capable of about 16 hours of wakefulness a day”(3). Suffering from sleep deprivation can make the simplest task difficult. Sleep experst tested the effects of sleep deprivation on people. The studies showed that people became so impaired that had difficulty completing simple task, like pushing a button. The brain can’t function efficiently or accurately without adequate rest. Sleep deprivation can put people in dangerous situations; mainly because people are unable to recognize their own fatigue. Even though people don’t recognize fatigue as a serious problem, the effects it can have on the body can lead to serious consequences. “What most people don’t realize is that the purpose of sleep may be more to rest the mind than to rest the body”.(5) People often try to over come sleep deprivation and fatigue with quick fixes. These quick fixes include coffee, energy drink, stimulants and fresh air but they can only temporarily relieve