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Doctors, do you think i can die from lack of sleep?
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Fatal insomnia: There is a rare condition -- unfortunate individual cannot sleep due to damage to mechanism in brain that allows for sleeping. This is a fatal condition. However, for someone who has insomnia/poor sleep, most people eventually sleep with enough exhaustion. The body's ability to rebuild/recover requires getting enough sleep in different sleep stages. Negative health effects with poor sleep.
Answered 11/7/2014
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