I just tell people I'm a dolphin trainer. It's better for everyone. — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night. — Matthew Walker Every night Copy Share Image
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”VII” — Matthew Walker Good night Copy Share Image
By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure. — Matthew Walker 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
“Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's… — Matthew Walker Biology 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
It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually… — Matthew Walker 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
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 Deprivation Copy Share Image
“Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours a night demolishes your immune system, more than doubling your risk of cancer.” — Matthew Walker Cancer 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 Copy Share Image
Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including… — Matthew Walker Compromise 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 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 Copy Share Image
“the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. The leading causes of disease and death in developed nations—diseases that are crippling health-care… — Matthew Walker Death Copy Share Image
The fact that we don't have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
I think the first general point to make from epidemiological studies across millions of people is the following - that short sleep… — Matthew Walker 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 Copy Share Image
“new report has discovered that medical errors are the third-leading cause of death among Americans after heart attacks and cancer. Sleeplessness undoubtedly… — Matthew Walker Death Copy Share Image
“Without sufficient sleep, amyloid plaques build up in the brain, especially in deep-sleep-generating regions, attacking and degrading them. The loss of deep… — Matthew Walker Sleep Copy Share Image
“From this cascade comes a prediction: getting too little sleep across the adult life span will significantly raise your risk of developing… — Matthew Walker Adult life Copy Share Image
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” — Matthew Walker Despair Copy Share Image
“After all, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” — Matthew Walker Absence Copy Share Image
When did a doctor prescribe, not sleeping pills, but sleep itself? It needs to be prioritised, even incentivised. — Matthew Walker Doctor Copy Share Image
I think many people walk through their lives in an under-slept state not realizing it. It's become this new natural baseline. — Matthew Walker 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
No aspect of our biology is left unscathed by sleep deprivation. It sinks down into every possible nook and cranny. And yet… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. It's not a consequence of evolutionary habituation. — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
“It is disquieting to learn that vehicular accidents caused by drowsy driving exceed those caused by alcohol and drugs combined.” — Matthew Walker 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 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
Some people actually sleep better when the significant other is with them. For other couples, it's the opposite. — Matthew Walker 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 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 Copy Share Image
