00:00 | Trailer
03:47 Brian’s thoughts on the episode
06:03 Brian’s introduction
06:56 Why Matthew’s book is more comprehensive than just the top 10 tips for sleep
09:04 How he came to study the importance of sleep and detrimental effects from lack of it
11:58 How a lack of sleep affects dieting and exercise
14:02 Sometimes, to unmask the lack of sleep you are having you have to put the system under load
16:13 Alcohol as an aid to sleep is a major misconception
19:25 Other issues affecting sleep: light; body temperature; regularity;24:24 Schools give lectures about drugs and sex, but nothing on the importance of sleep
27:23 Sleep deprived parenthood
32:58 Wakefulness is low level brain damage, sleep is a life support mechanism
36:39 Sleep is not a passive state; how surprising activity in phases of sleep aids the memory
46:42 Success secrets
47:35 Social jetlag or sleep bulimia is disastrous
50:54 The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life
Sleep is absent as a voice in medicine
1:02:00 Reaction of the medical world to his article in The Lancet
1:03:56 The sleep divorce concept is a huge issue on a taboo subject
1:08:30 Sleeping pills come with deleterious consequences
1:15:10 Matthew could help reduce Theresa May’s promised 30 million pound injection into NHS
1:18:14 Why and what it is like, to come out of the lab into the limelight
1:20:08 Passion for sleep will drive Matthew’s mission to promote its benefits to industrialised nations
1:23:05 Sleep is the single most effective thing you can do to reset your brain and body health
1:23:41 Brian’s summing up.