17 Quotes by Matthew Walker about Sleep
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The natural peak of the human circadian rhythm is in the early afternoon.
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For every day you are in a different timezone, your suprachiasmatic nucleus can only readjust by about one hour.
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Every time I watch this stunning act of neural synchrony occurring at night in my own research laboratory, I am humbled: sleep is truly an object of awe.
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People consuming even moderate amounts of alcohol in the afternoon and/or evening are thus depriving themselves of dream sleep.
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When sleep is abundant, minds flourish. When it is deficient, they don't.
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the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span
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While some have contested how accurate or sound the Edina test case is, well-controlled and far larger systematic studies have proved that Edina is no fluke. Numerous counties in several US states have shifted the start of schools to a later hour and their students experienced significantly higher grade point averages.
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Humans are not sleeping the way nature intended. The number of sleep bouts, the duration of sleep, and when sleep occurs has all been comprehensively distorted by modernity.
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