Is Polyphasic enough for physical restoration?

[Reis]

According to what I've seen around or understood, REM sleep is mainly
to restore your mind and brain while other phases (Stage 3
specifically) serve to patch up your body tiredness and heal it.

Now on polyphasic sleeping, you're either forcing yourself to get less
of the other stages and more of REM or simply make your cicles much
shorter.

Either way, with polyphasic sleeping you seem to get less time to heal
up your body. Isn't this hazardous? I've been on Everyman2 for 13 days
now and even if I can function during the day (Between 5-9am is more
difficult because of work. Either I'm not truly adapted yet or I might
be but my biology isn't used to being awake at those hours). But for
the past days, I've been feeling a sort of burn inside my body.

I associate this with the need to be healed or rest. It doesn't seem a
mental factor but a physical one. Like it doesn't have enough time to
patch up.

So to everyone in polyphasic sleeping in general, could you say your
opinions on if we actually get enough physical rest, since we might be
trading a lot of mental rest for it instead?

[HalfABrain]

I don't think this is as big an issue as you're suggesting. I don't
know the Science behind it, but I can tell you my experience.

During adaptation, there were some major changes in how my body
processed things. Particularly digestive timing, but more than that.
I did feel somewhat run down for a while, but compared to the zombie
mode feelings it was relatively benign. Eventually my body resolved
those issues, and now, physically, I am convinced my body is better
off than it was under hibernation. As long as I am strict on my naps,
my physical restoration is fine. In fact in some areas it is better.

When the flu went around and my family caught it, I didn't. My back
aches much less. That's probably due to the fact that it gets six 20-
minute rests instead of one long 8-hour rest. When I was a hibernator
sometimes I would wake up with my back feeling WORSE than it did the
night before. No matter whether I slept on a hard or soft surface, it
was too long. But 20 minutes of my back on a semi-hard surface makes
it feel much better. I do that 6 times a day.

Another thing that I have noticed is that I have more cold-
resistance. I can get my tennis shoes wet and still go for hours and
my feet don't get as cold as they used to. Not even sure if it's even
related.

I don't do strenuous workouts at the gym, but I'm not sedentary. I'd
say I'm probably half a farmer. I get plenty of exercise chasing
cows, processing poultry, moving pipe, fixing fences, and hauling
hay. However, I don't do hard physical labor day and night. I also
get a lot of physically restful work done, especially in the late
evening and early morning hours. I do a lot of computer stuff, read,
and do paperwork. I'm not quite 50, so it's not just a case of being
young, but I think I'm more healthy this year than I was last year
when I was hibernating.

I think my body does more with 6 short rests than it did with one long
one.