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How to Pay Off Sleep Debt from a Sleep-Deprived Teenager | Aarya Karmarkar | TEDxRVA Youth
TEDx Talksยท 2025-12-04 17:34
I can guarantee that at least 30% of you in this room are in crippling debt, especially the students. See, I'm not talking about monetary dues, but a deficit and something more accessible and perhaps more crucial. Sleep.Sleep debt is an idea that reflects the amount of sleep loss over the amount you need and accumulates over time. The term was first coined in 1963 by physiologist Nathaniel Cleman who proposed that sleep tech can be liquidated by increasing the time of recovery sleep. Yet, how accurate is th ...