Sleep debt

Everyone tells you not to accrue credit card debt, but almost no one tells you not to accrue sleep debt. Sleep debt, do you even know what that is?
The recommended amount of sleep for the average person is about 7-8 hours. The fact of the matter is that with larger work demands, longer commute hours, and just wanting to do more, most Americans are not falling into the recommended bracket. For every hour your body gets deprived of sleep, it tries to make it up in the following day. If deprived for 2 days, it will try to make it up in the third, and so on, racking up your debt like a Saturday night at the bar. Recent studies are now showing however that while the body can easily make up sleep debt here and there, the body loses its ability to do so when sleep loss occurs too often.