The definitive answer to what sleep deprivation is actually doing to you

A study by SMU researchers found that every hour of lost sleep translated to an additional 8.4 minutes of online procrastination the next day. Harvard scientists estimated in 2011 that sleep deprivation costs the U.S. economy about $63.2 billion in lost productivity annually. Sleep deprivation is such a rampant problem in modern America that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now consider it an “unrecognized epidemic”.