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>The scientist found that all the physical adverse effects of sleep deprivation were negated by the short power naps.

we don't even know if the "brain cleaning so, longterm, you don't get dementia" hypothesis is true, and here you/they are saying "we know it's false for these people".

nah, fam.




By physical I meant primarily the body. As I mentioned the cofnitive fuctions did start to suffer somewhat. Though they had quite short naps.




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