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“My name is Matthew Walker, I am a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and I am the author of the book 'Why We Sleep.'”

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“Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours a night demolishes your immune system, more than doubling your risk of cancer.”

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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 lovely if…

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“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”VII”

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I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science,…

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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.

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The time of night when you sleep makes a significant difference in terms of the structure and quality of your sleep.

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Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you're trying to sleep off a debt you've accumulated during the…

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No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead.

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If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it's the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made.

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Your subjective sense of how well you're doing under conditions of sleep deprivation is a miserable predictor of, objectively, how you actually are doing.

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