Notas del episodio
A deadline, a new baby, a red-eye, or a night that just never handed you sleep. However you got here, you are coming up on twenty-four hours awake and wondering what it is doing to you.
We walk the shape of a single sleepless day and night — including the finding with the strongest data behind it and the one people find hardest to believe: at around twenty-four hours awake, performance matches a blood alcohol concentration of roughly 0.10 percent. The US legal limit is 0.08. Not to alarm you, but because knowing the shape tells you which hours to be careful in.
SOURCES:
Dawson & Reid — Fatigue, alcohol and performance impairment, Nature, 1997;388:235
Williamson & Feyer — Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2000
CDC / NIOSH — impairments due to sleep deprivation and alcohol intoxication
Written and fact-checked by Brent Burgess. Narration uses a synthetic voice model of his own voice.
This episode is general education and is not medical advice. Sleep problems can have serious underlying causes — talk to your doctor before changing medication, supplements, or treatment.