Dr. Matt Walker

It's like empty photons.

Yeah, you've all heard of junk food.

Well, there's something called junk light.

And if you get your whole foods during the day, just like you get your whole kind of encompassed light during the day, that's great.

But then if you start binging on junk light at night, it's profoundly deleterious to your sleep and everything that sleep depends on.

It's lovely.

So when people hear me in future public spheres talking about junk light, you know where it came from.

I will give you full credit.

Well, I place myself firmly underneath a pedestal.

But yes, we all try to stand on the shoulders of giants.

Thank you for allowing me to both

voice and narrate the important story of sleep and mental health.

It's something I'm immensely passionate about, both from a personal perspective, but also from a professional research perspective.

Yeah, I think many of us can resonate with the idea of dental hygiene.

But it turns out there's something called sleep hygiene.

And there are probably, I would say, five edicts of sleep hygiene.

I offer them as...

as tools and not necessarily rules because I don't think people respond to rules.

People respond to reasons and not rules.

So if it's okay, I'll probably just unpack each one of them rather than just sort of bark them at you and hope people assume that it's the right answer.