Earlier this week, the National Sleep Foundation reported that more than half of American women are suffering from sleep deprivation. These women are too tired to have a good work and personal life and are completely stressed out. (I’m sure many of us can identify!) And if they also happen to have the long version of the PER3 gene, they’d also have issues with cognitive function.
A small study of 24 people, half of whom carried two copies of the long version of PER3 and the other half with two copies of the short version, found that those with the long …read more