“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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
I think sleep is probably the neglected stepsister in the health conversation today. I think we've done a good job regarding physical… — Matthew Walker Diet Copy Share Image
I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives… — Matthew Walker Human 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
The gross demonstration of caffeine is that it prevents you from falling asleep. The slightly more nefarious aspect of caffeine is that… — Matthew Walker Caffeine Copy Share Image
Stay away from screens, especially those LED screens. Those blue-light emitting devices fool your brain into thinking that it's still daytime, even… — Matthew Walker Brain Copy Share Image
Deep non-REM sleep almost hits the save button on those recently acquired informational pieces so that when you wake up the next… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
Regularity is a key: going to bed at the same time, waking up at the same time no matter what. But I… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. It is during dream sleep and only during dream sleep when our brain shuts… — Matthew Walker Brain 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
