94.A Brand New Magic Pill：Sleep Early

A Brand New Magic Pill：Sleep Early

Imagine: someone came over to sell a brand new magic pill. This pill can significantly improve your memory, overall cognitive performance, ability to learn new information, acceptance of facial expressions, emotions, ability to deal with problems, metabolism and immune system.

想象一下，有个人走过来推销一款全新的神奇药片，这种药片可以显著改善你的记忆力、整体认知能力、吸取新信息的能力、接受面部表情、情绪、处理问题的能力、新陈代谢和免疫系统。

Will you buy it? Yes, you guessed it: this pill is real, but not in the form of a pill. You can enjoy all these benefits for free, and all you need is to go to bed early. That's it.

你会买吗？是的，你猜到了：这种药片真实存在，但并不是以药片的形式。你可以免费享受所有这些福利，而你所需要的做的只是早点睡觉，仅此而已。

But! The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls sleep deprivation a public health crisis, and it says one-third of adults do not get enough sleep. About 80% of people report sleep problems at least once a week, and, according to a 2016 study, sleep deprivation "is costing the U.S. economy more than $ 400 billion a year and causing 1.23 million workdays a year.

但是！疾病控制和预防中心(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)把睡眠剥夺称作是一场公共健康危机，它表示三分之一的成年人睡眠不足。大约80％的人每周至少报告一次睡眠问题，并且，根据2016年的一项研究，睡眠剥夺“对美国经济造成的损失每年超过4000亿美元，并导致每年123万个工作日的损失”。

If that's not enough, here is an incomplete list of how sleep deprivation can harm you personally: Your overall cognitive performance—especially your visual attention and ability to form memories—will decline. Before and after you learn new information, your ability to learn new information will be impaired by lack of sleep.

如果这还不够，关于睡眠剥夺如何损害你个人，这里列出了一系列不太完整的影响：你的整体认知能力会衰退，特别是你的视觉注意力和形成记忆能力。在吸取新信息前后，你吸取新信息的能力都会因睡眠不足而受损。

In addition to your severely impaired mental capacity, your body is also affected: lack of adequate sleep can lead to weight gain, increase your risk of diabetes and heart disease, and reduce your resistance to the common cold .

除了严重受损的心智能力之外，你的身体也会受到影响：缺乏足够的睡眠会导致体重增加，使你患糖尿病和心脏病的风险更高，并使你对普通感冒的抵抗力大大降低。