Sleep deprivation and growth

[Agent]

Is it true that sleep deprivation will make you growth slow down or even totally stop? Because, I really like to stay awake really late(like, sometimes even till 5:00 AM). I don´t have insomnia, I just like staying awake late. I usually sleep like 5-9 hours and I don´t even feel tired after sleeping only 5 hours. I heard that you sleep more when you are in puberty. But, I feel that 5 hours is enough for me and I am in puberty. Like, at the first night I can sleep only 5 hours and the next day I can still say awake as long as the first day and I don´t even feel tired.

Can it harm my growth? I´m worried especially about my penis growth. I don´t want my penis growth to stop or anything. In the other hand, I also don´t want to stop staying awake late...
So, what do you think?

[Beretta]

i'm the same as you..stay up all night and can run on little sleep...but i'm afraid I dont know the answer to your question sorry. I've heard that you're supposed to have at least 9 hours sleep every night for your body to function properly, but i'm not sure how that applies in puberty

[Snorlax Myther]

I want to know this too.

[Snorlax Myther]

Sorry, double post.

[supernova8]

i think this is quite true to some extend. i stay up late at night and i think im more skinny and smaller in size than my peers

[Giles]

i doubt it, but i really want to know... sometimes i go days on end without sleeping, then i just sleep wherever i drop.

[Wonder.]

It shouldn't affect your growth. You don't need 9 hours of sleep to work properly.

1. You always work properly.
2. It's different for everyone. I need about 5 hours of sleep. Nine is too long to sleep for me.

[pkid]

This is true. Scientific studies were made and kids especially in their teen/puberty stages should atleast have 8-9hours of sleep every night to grow to their full height, but the studies didn't say anything about the length of the penis so idk about that

[byee]

Sleep is important, but unless you're basically never sleeping, and not eating, either, it should have no affect on growth or puberty at all. it takes some pretty extreme things over a very long period of time to cause permanent damage.

[Buddy]

it shouldnt i hardly ever go to sleep and im 13 and 6feet tall

[Poetic Folly]

Yes.
When you sleep, your cells rebuild and repair. You need about 8 hours of sleep.
Recent studies have suggested that sleep downtime of the brain, so active during the day, may replenish dwindling energy stores that cells need to function, repair cellular damage caused by our busy metabolism, and even grow new nerve cells in the brain.

[Poetic Folly]

it shouldnt i hardly ever go to sleep and im 13 and 6feet tall

I think you might be exaggerating... just a bit. That's hereditary and genetics, too, though.
It also effects growth of muscle.