A leading neurologist from Hyderabad is making headlines with a message about sleep.
Dr. Sudhir Kumar of Apollo Hospitals is stressing just how important sleep is to our health. He says that even losing one hour of sleep can have a big effect, and it can take days to fully recover. This is sparking a conversation about how much sleep we really need to be healthy.
“If you lose just one hour of sleep, it could take four days to recover from that,” Dr Kumar posted on X, stating the serious repercussions of inadequate rest, including headaches, poor focus, increased irritability, and impaired decision-making.
The post on X went viral with over 86.6K views, 695 likes and 146 reposts with many sharing their relationship with sleep. To a follow-up question of whether sleeping during the day can compensate for lost sleep in the night, Dr Sudhir replied: ‘Absolutely.’