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Can you catch up on sleep?

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Can you catch up on sleep?

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Feeling like you'll never catch up on sleep? You can--up to a point. In this HealthMakers video, Michael Timothy Smith, MA, PhD, director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at Johns Hopkins University, explains.

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