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Dr. Matthew Walker

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Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

It's simply removing what is blocking your brain's natural ability to generate the sleep that it could do. If only it could try to reduce the anxiety that's getting in the way. And when I say anxiety here, I'm meaning the physiological, biological anxiety within the body. That's, I think, what CBD is potentially doing to get you into good sleep.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

It's simply removing what is blocking your brain's natural ability to generate the sleep that it could do. If only it could try to reduce the anxiety that's getting in the way. And when I say anxiety here, I'm meaning the physiological, biological anxiety within the body. That's, I think, what CBD is potentially doing to get you into good sleep.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

So new technologies, I think CBD is an interesting one. But then we come on to an area that I've been doing a fair amount of work in over the past eight years or so, which is the artificial enhancement of human sleep. Because what I started to realize is that, you know, I can come on lots of podcasts, I can give you the scientific data,

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

So new technologies, I think CBD is an interesting one. But then we come on to an area that I've been doing a fair amount of work in over the past eight years or so, which is the artificial enhancement of human sleep. Because what I started to realize is that, you know, I can come on lots of podcasts, I can give you the scientific data,

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

So new technologies, I think CBD is an interesting one. But then we come on to an area that I've been doing a fair amount of work in over the past eight years or so, which is the artificial enhancement of human sleep. Because what I started to realize is that, you know, I can come on lots of podcasts, I can give you the scientific data,

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

But in truth, there's only so much I can do to get people sleeping the same amount that I would wish them to sleep. So the next question would then be, well, could I create technologies that act like a zip file for sleep that I can compress sleep into six down from eight? Now, I think that that's, You've got to... I think that's a dangerous thing because I think it's hubristic.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

But in truth, there's only so much I can do to get people sleeping the same amount that I would wish them to sleep. So the next question would then be, well, could I create technologies that act like a zip file for sleep that I can compress sleep into six down from eight? Now, I think that that's, You've got to... I think that's a dangerous thing because I think it's hubristic.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

But in truth, there's only so much I can do to get people sleeping the same amount that I would wish them to sleep. So the next question would then be, well, could I create technologies that act like a zip file for sleep that I can compress sleep into six down from eight? Now, I think that that's, You've got to... I think that's a dangerous thing because I think it's hubristic.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

Because it took Mother Nature 3.6 million years to put this thing called the seven to nine hour sleep necessity in place. Sleep is the most idiotic thing that you can conceive of. You're not finding a mate, you're not foraging for food, you're not reproducing, you're not caring for your young, and you are vulnerable to predation.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

Because it took Mother Nature 3.6 million years to put this thing called the seven to nine hour sleep necessity in place. Sleep is the most idiotic thing that you can conceive of. You're not finding a mate, you're not foraging for food, you're not reproducing, you're not caring for your young, and you are vulnerable to predation.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

Because it took Mother Nature 3.6 million years to put this thing called the seven to nine hour sleep necessity in place. Sleep is the most idiotic thing that you can conceive of. You're not finding a mate, you're not foraging for food, you're not reproducing, you're not caring for your young, and you are vulnerable to predation.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

On any one of those grounds, sleep should have been strongly selected against in the course of evolution. If Mother Nature had found some magical zip file solution to compress eight hours of vulnerability nonsense down to six, guaranteed she would have done it. And the fact that it hasn't emerged.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

On any one of those grounds, sleep should have been strongly selected against in the course of evolution. If Mother Nature had found some magical zip file solution to compress eight hours of vulnerability nonsense down to six, guaranteed she would have done it. And the fact that it hasn't emerged.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

On any one of those grounds, sleep should have been strongly selected against in the course of evolution. If Mother Nature had found some magical zip file solution to compress eight hours of vulnerability nonsense down to six, guaranteed she would have done it. And the fact that it hasn't emerged.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

And then I come along and I say to you, Chris, I'm going to be, you know, some, you know, scientific genius who comes along with the compression zip file for sleep. You know, good luck. Take care. We are starting to get there with some things, though. One of the things that we developed was an electrical brain stimulation device. So we've moved from pharmaceuticals to electroceuticals.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

And then I come along and I say to you, Chris, I'm going to be, you know, some, you know, scientific genius who comes along with the compression zip file for sleep. You know, good luck. Take care. We are starting to get there with some things, though. One of the things that we developed was an electrical brain stimulation device. So we've moved from pharmaceuticals to electroceuticals.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

And then I come along and I say to you, Chris, I'm going to be, you know, some, you know, scientific genius who comes along with the compression zip file for sleep. You know, good luck. Take care. We are starting to get there with some things, though. One of the things that we developed was an electrical brain stimulation device. So we've moved from pharmaceuticals to electroceuticals.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

Because if you want to change sleep, sleep is an electrical phenomenon. It's an electrophysiological state. It's brainwave activity. It's electrical activity. And if you want to speak in the currency of the brain, you should deal in the same currency, which is electricity.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

Because if you want to change sleep, sleep is an electrical phenomenon. It's an electrophysiological state. It's brainwave activity. It's electrical activity. And if you want to speak in the currency of the brain, you should deal in the same currency, which is electricity.

Modern Wisdom
#883 - Dr Matthew Walker - The Science Of Perfect Sleep

Because if you want to change sleep, sleep is an electrical phenomenon. It's an electrophysiological state. It's brainwave activity. It's electrical activity. And if you want to speak in the currency of the brain, you should deal in the same currency, which is electricity.