Biology Quote by Matthew Walker

““Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death.””

Matthew Walker

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

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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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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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If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? If the answer is yes, then there is clearly more…

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