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Unveiling the Sleep Crisis: Implications for Adolescent Health,
Academic Performance, and Policy Reform
centers on sleep physiology, making him one of the rare experts in Taiwan dedicated to
fundamental sleep studies.

We start by investigating what kinds of signs could be an indication of insufficient sleep:

We: How to verify whether you are getting enough sleep every day?

Dr. Fang-Chia Chang: You will feel tired when you get up, and that means it is not enough.
You will be tired when you get up. After you get up, you will not feel awake and feel that today is
another good day, but you are just tired. That just wasn't enough.

Then, we delve into the negative impacts of insufficient sleep:

We: We have also seen that long-term short-term sleep, or sleep that is often disturbed,
can cause many diseases. Are these related?

Dr. Fang-Chia Chang: There are many, such as insomnia caused by some stress, which
will affect some of your mental illnesses. For example, depression and anxiety are actually related
to lack of sleep. There are some infectious diseases, your resistance and immunity will be reduced.
This has been reported in the literature. So this part will increase your susceptibility to colds or
COVID-19, etc. These are all directly related. Even more serious, in the long term, there may be
some neurological diseases, which will also have some impact, especially if you have some
neurological diseases yourself. Lack of sleep will aggravate neurological diseases such as
epilepsy, which will worsen due to lack of sleep. Yes, it will worsen epilepsy, so this part is
relevant. There is definitely a certain correlation, so this part may have to be considered.
Therefore, lack of sleep will indeed cause some subsequent antibiotics and some consequences.

He also adds on that inadequate sleep could also cause sports injuries, stating:

Dr. Fang-Chia Chang: Because your concentration will be poor, your coordination will
become worse, especially the body parts. This is certain, and they will all have different effects.

Then, we asked potential solutions for inadequate sleep:

We: So if I had a very short sleep and a very lack of sleep the day before yesterday, how
can I adjust this state today?

Dr. Fang-Chia Chang: If you have been in a short-term sleep for a long time, and you
suddenly try to sleep for many hours a day, there is no way to make up for it. For example, is it
helpful to catch up on sleep during the weekend or on the 6th? It helps a little bit. But it doesn’t
help much, because you have been in a state of long-term insomnia and lack of sleep for a week
and five days, so I can’t say it’s useless, but the effect is limited. So the way to cure cauldron
cramps is to get enough sleep every day. Basically, you need to get enough sleep every day. This
is the most basic thing.

We also asked about how long an adolescent should sleep:

We: So let’s put it this way, we are about 16 or 15 years old. How much sleep should we
get every day? What time do we go to bed and what time do we get up?

Dr. Fang-Chia Chang: Let me give you a reference, it takes about 8.2 hours between 19
and 30 years old. People aged 19 to 30 have an average of 8.2 hours. Then at your age, the

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