{"id":214586,"date":"2025-05-23T13:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/natural-short-sleepers-have-a-genetic-mutation-finds-new-study"},"modified":"2025-05-23T13:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:10:57","slug":"natural-short-sleepers-have-a-genetic-mutation-finds-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/natural-short-sleepers-have-a-genetic-mutation-finds-new-study","title":{"rendered":"Natural short sleepers have a genetic mutation, finds new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/natural-short-sleepers-have-a-genetic-mutation-finds-new-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep to function properly. Some people can feel well-rested and show no negative effects of sleep deprivation, even after just 4 hours of sleep, which is likely the result of a genetic mutation.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study has reported that a mutation in salt-induced kinase 3 (hSIK3-N783Y)\u2014a gene critical for regulating sleep duration and depth\u2014may be the reason why some people are natural short sleepers (NSS).<\/p>\n<p>The findings of this study are published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep to function properly. Some people can feel well-rested and show no negative effects of sleep deprivation, even after just 4 hours of sleep, which is likely the result of a genetic mutation. A recent study has reported that a mutation in salt-induced kinase 3 (hSIK3-N783Y)\u2014a gene critical for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}