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Why We Sleep

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by Matthew Walker

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Why Sleep is Important?

Why Sleep is Important?

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

• Insufficient sleep is a key lifestyle factor determining whether or not you will develop Alzheimer’s disease.

• Inadequate sleep—even moderate reductions for just one week—disrupts blood sugar levels so profoundly that you would be classified as pre-diabetic.

• Short sleeping increases the likelihood of your coronary arteries becoming blocked and brittle, setting you on a path toward cardiovascular disease, stroke, and congestive heart failure.

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Why Sleep is Important?

Why Sleep is Important?

• Sleep disruption further contributes to all major psychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety, and suicidality.

• Too little sleep swells concentrations of a hormone that makes you feel hungry while suppressing a companion hormone that otherwise signals food satisfaction.

• The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span.

• Sleep reforms the body’s metabolic state by fine-tuning the balance of insulin and circulating glucose.

• Human beings are in fact the only species that will deliberately deprive themselves of sleep without legitimate gain.

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Why Sleep is Important?

Why Sleep is Important?

• Sleep further regulates our appetite, helping control body weight through healthy food selection rather than rash impulsivity. Plentiful sleep maintains a flourishing microbiome within your gut from which we know so much of our nutritional health begins. Despite being full, you still want to eat more. It’s a proven recipe for weight gain in sleep-deficient adults and children alike.

• Sleep enriches a diversity of functions, including our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions and choices.

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Why Sleep is Important

Why Sleep is Important

• Sleep recalibrates our emotional brain circuits, allowing us to navigate next-day social and psychological challenges with cool-headed composure.

• Sleep restocks the armory of our immune system, helping fight malignancy, preventing infection, and warding off all manner of sickness.

• Adequate sleep is intimately tied to the fitness of our cardiovascular system, lowering blood pressure while keeping our hearts in fine condition.

• Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day.

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CHARLOTTE BRONTË

'' A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.''

CHARLOTTE BRONTË

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CURATOR'S NOTE

Sleep is essential in our lives.

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