Matthew Walker is an award winning Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California Berkeley, and the Sleep Scientist at Google. His book “Why We Sleep” takes a groundbreaking look at how sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, one that is increasingly neglected in modern society, and how that can have deadly consequences.
and Matthew’s thanks to Brian.
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.
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