Just like financial debt, sleep debt also adds up: “If I do the same thing the next night and the night after that, that adds up to a lot of hours I need to catch up on,” Dasgupta notes. If the recommendation for healthy adults is seven to nine hours of sleep per night, but you only get four to six, that creates a sleep debt of one to three hours per night, explains Raj Dasgupta, M.D., FAASM, a pulmonary and sleep medicine specialist in California. Here, learn more about sleep debt, how it affects your health, and how you can avoid it in the future. The key to avoiding the adverse effects of sleep debt: prevention. Plus, there’s compound interest - and eventually, it adds up so much that you can’t pay it off. When you lose hours of sleep, you accumulate “sleep debt.” “Sleep debt is a way of taking out a loan… against your health,” says Mark Burhenne, D.D.S., a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), and author of The 8-Hour Sleep Paradox. But can you really make up for lost hours of shuteye by sleeping in on the weekend? If you’ve been burning the midnight oil, you’re likely looking forward to the weekend (or a much-deserved vacation) to “catch up” on sleep.
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