Your Brain Changes Based on What You Did Two Weeks Ago | A workout or restless night from two weeks ago could still be affecting you—positively or negatively—today.

[u/chrisdh79]

https://www.newsweek.com/brain-changes-neuroscience-exercise-sleep-health-two-weeks-1965107

[u/[deleted]]

okay don't worry, let's figure out when you'll recover. so if one bad day has an impact for 2 weeks, that's t * 14 = recovery time (r), so r = 10 years * 14 = 140 years. no big deal, could be worse, right? right??

[u/stoptheworldjustto → u/[deleted]]

I feel like people are reading the results of this differently than I am. As far as I can tell, the recovery time is two weeks, period.

It’s not that one night of bad sleep affects you for two weeks, and two nights of bad sleep in a row affect you for four weeks.

There’s just a lingering effect that stretches up to 15 days from any (positive or negative) event

[u/CarPhoneRonnie → u/stoptheworldjustto]

I think you’d need 14 days of restful sleep in a row before you could judge the 15th night at a baselines of zero. If your 15th night is restless, you may feel the effects of the poor sleep from the 15th night for the next ~14 days.

[u/stoptheworldjustto → u/CarPhoneRonnie]

Right, but if every night of sleep for the next two weeks is restful, that’s the reset right there — not 140 years from now. It doesn’t accumulate that way

[u/[deleted] → u/stoptheworldjustto]

it was just a joke.