If our immune system works best when sleeping, would we get over illnesses faster if we took sleeping pills and slept for three days straight rather than taking it medications? Assuming you stayed hydrated, what would be the downside to “sleep therapy?” It would even slow the spread of illnesses if people just slept for days when they started feeling ill. What is the upside to medicating (medications ranging from cold medicines and fever reducers to antibiotics)?
In: Biology
We simply don’t have the technology to put people to sleep for 3 days, let alone to do it safely. In addition, remaining stationary for long periods of time is bad for your body; you run the risk of things like bed sores and blood clots.
Tl;dr we can’t and we shouldn’t
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