Dr. Matt Walker

That's why, to me, that final T of QQRT is so critical.

Does that sort of unpack and explain this?

Beautifully.

If I have an appendicitis at 4 a.m.

in the morning, I'm very grateful for people who can help save my life.

I'm going to put you in my car.

I'm going to do an intervention.

You are going to be in bed by nine o'clock this evening.

Non-negotiable.

So there are certainly some ways that we do it in science and clinically, but let's let those go for a second and just say for people listening, what are some very easy tests?

I think the first test that I would offer is if your alarm clock didn't go off tomorrow morning, would you sleep past your alarm clock?

And if the answer is yes, which for many people it will be, then you're not getting enough sleep.

No other species as well, by the way, artificially terminates their sleep.

It's so interesting.

But we humans will do it.

We will wrench ourselves out of sleep.

I told you that regularity is key.

And I do have an alarm clock.

I usually wake up close to it or a little bit before it.

So I do advocate an alarm clock.