Lack of sleep emerges as a major trigger for heart disease
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Sleep is an irreplaceable pillar of health, far more important than diet and exercise - medically speaking, sleep deprivation causes the fastest physiological decline. In the modern dilemma, sleep disorders are replacing obesity as the leading cause of cardiovascular disease, with 70% of patients in outpatient clinics suffering from them. There is no need to force perfect sleep, but we need to keep the bottom line of "no chronic sleep deprivation": deep sleep for neural repair and REM sleep for emotional memory consolidation. Although fragmented sleep can temporarily boost alertness, it cannot reverse the long-term sleep debt. The real key is to consider sleep as an uncompromising investment in life, rather than a "adjustable time slot".