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Abi Jackson & Phil Norris

Still tired after heatwave? Expert says you may be suffering with 'sleep debt'

The heatwave took it out of most of us. Those long, sultry nights and the beating heat during the day that made the simplest task a real effort. And If you haven’t shaken off that hot weather tiredness yet, you’re not alone.

The sweltering peak of the heatwave might be over – at least for now - but many of us are still feeling sluggish and exhausted. So, now the mercury’s dropped back to a more reasonable summertime range, why haven’t our energy levels snapped back too?

It may all be to do with you having a ‘sleep debt', an expert has said. “People will have incurred a sleep debt – perhaps above and beyond their normal sleep debt,” suggests Dr Guy Meadows from Sleep School

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