This is fascinating. I started a sleep log to track results from my Whoop band, and there is a lot of variation between night-to-night sleep cycles. I have 20 nights of data so far, so I am starting to look at the averages instead of obsess about what happened the previous night.Verax wrote:Although the minor (5%) T (A) allele of the ADA gene is associated with more deep sleep, it has both positive and negative aspects and might be worth checking out when setting sleep goals...
People get less deep sleep as they age, decreasing from an average of 17% at age 20 to 12% at age 70...
My SWS so far is 15%, at the top of the reported Fitbit average, so deep sleep does not appear to be an issue as I originally thought. I checked my 23andme data, and I am heterozygous for the T allele on the rs73598374 SNP. Never knew about that one before! This clears up my question on whether I should stop drinking coffee. After watching Chris Masterjohn's Lite episode on coffee and the ADA gene, I'm going to drink more!
My REM sleep, on the other hand, seems lower than average. running about 14% with 20 days of tracking.
I'll do some more exploring and experimenting. Thanks for this info!