The only way to make up for lost time is to go to sleep when you’re tired and wake up when you wake up, perhaps devoting ten hours to sleep for months at a time – a scary concept for those of us penciling sleep in pretty low on the priority list. But, it could be with worth it in the long run: When you put away sleep debt, you become Replica Chanel H1420 J12 Ladies' Watch superhuman, Stanford psychologist William C. Dement to Scientific American. For a step-by-step guide to reclaiming that elusive eighth hour, don’t miss Outside’s June issue, on newsstands Tuesday.-Claire Napier Galofaro
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