“Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours a night demolishes your immune system, more than doubling your risk of cancer.” — Matthew Walker Immune system Copy Share Image
You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be… — Matthew Walker Body Copy Share Image
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”VII” — Matthew Walker Hope Copy Share Image
I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of… — Matthew Walker Right Copy Share Image
It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it. — Matthew Walker Older Copy Share Image
The time of night when you sleep makes a significant difference in terms of the structure and quality of your sleep. — Matthew Walker Night Copy Share Image
Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you're trying to sleep off a debt you've accumulated… — Matthew Walker Debt Copy Share Image
No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead. — Matthew Walker Entertainment Copy Share Image
If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it's the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made. — Matthew Walker Biggest mistake Copy Share Image
Your subjective sense of how well you're doing under conditions of sleep deprivation is a miserable predictor of, objectively, how you actually… — Matthew Walker How Copy Share Image
If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? If the answer is yes, then there is… — Matthew Walker Alarm Copy Share Image
Friends say, 'Shall we go out to dinner at 8?' I say, 'I can't, I'm a 10 A.M.-till-6:30 P.M. kind of guy.'… — Matthew Walker Dinner Copy Share Image
I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night. — Matthew Walker Every night Copy Share Image
We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the… — Matthew Walker Brain Copy Share Image
As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you… — Matthew Walker Details Copy Share Image
Sleep-deprived individuals also generate fewer and less accurate solutions to problems. — Matthew Walker Accurate Copy Share Image
When I give lectures, people will wait behind until there is no one around and then tell me quietly, 'I seem to… — Matthew Walker People Copy Share Image
Creativity is, after all, lauded as the engine of business innovation. — Matthew Walker Business Copy Share Image
Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're… — Matthew Walker Alcohol Copy Share Image
Many business leaders still believe that time on-task equates to productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was… — Matthew Walker Believe Copy Share Image
Our circadian biology, and the insatiable early-morning demands of a post-industrial way of life, denies us the sleep we vitally need. — Matthew Walker Biology Copy Share Image
No one would look at an infant baby asleep, and say 'What a lazy baby!' We know sleeping is non-negotiable for a… — Matthew Walker Abandoned Copy Share Image
The gross demonstration of caffeine is that it prevents you from falling asleep. The slightly more nefarious aspect of caffeine is that… — Matthew Walker Deep Copy Share Image
What is dreaming, and what happens, and are there any real benefits to dreaming? Well, to take a step back, I think… — Matthew Walker Back Copy Share Image
The amount of sleep - the total amount of sleep that you get - starts to decrease the older that we get.… — Matthew Walker Age Copy Share Image
