Comment by gedy
1 year ago
I am a lot more active now than when I was young, and I absolutely need the sleep now. When I was young I could really push it and do overnighters, etc. No longer.
1 year ago
I am a lot more active now than when I was young, and I absolutely need the sleep now. When I was young I could really push it and do overnighters, etc. No longer.
Similar experience here. I was in objectively terrible shape in my teens through mid-20s; didn’t eat enough, didn’t sleep enough, didn’t drink enough water, and spent most of my day at a desk.
Flash forward to today in my mid-30s and all of this has improved dramatically (though has room for improvement), and yet lack of sleep is much harder on me now than it was back then.
Youth is a hell of a drug.
I'm curious what you suspect (or know) is the mechanism that makes sleep less effective now, than prior?