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Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?
Is it possible to cut your total sleep time in half, yet feel completely refreshed?
Timothy Ferriss • The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
Segmented sleep appeared to remain quite common even until the late 1800s,
Pamela Douglas • The Discontented Little Baby Book
Anthropological studies of pre-industrial hunter-gatherers have also dispelled a popular myth about how humans should sleep.III Around the close of the early modern era (circa late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries), historical texts suggest that Western Europeans would take two long bouts of sleep at night, separated by several hours of w
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