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Dr. Matthew Walker

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The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

Yeah.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

Yeah.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

Yeah.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

All of the above plus more. So there's not necessarily just one cause. Let's start at the hierarchical government level. There is no first world nation that I know of that has had a major public health campaign regarding sleep. Why not? We've had it for drunk driving. We've had it for safe sex. We've had it for all of these different things, but there's nothing there for sleep.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

All of the above plus more. So there's not necessarily just one cause. Let's start at the hierarchical government level. There is no first world nation that I know of that has had a major public health campaign regarding sleep. Why not? We've had it for drunk driving. We've had it for safe sex. We've had it for all of these different things, but there's nothing there for sleep.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

All of the above plus more. So there's not necessarily just one cause. Let's start at the hierarchical government level. There is no first world nation that I know of that has had a major public health campaign regarding sleep. Why not? We've had it for drunk driving. We've had it for safe sex. We've had it for all of these different things, but there's nothing there for sleep.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

And yes, you could argue from a cynical perspective, it's because we want you, from a capitalist society, we really want you to be doing two things. You're either producing things or you're buying things or you're consuming things. And if you're asleep, you're not doing either of those two. So you could argue conspiracy. I don't think it's that.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

And yes, you could argue from a cynical perspective, it's because we want you, from a capitalist society, we really want you to be doing two things. You're either producing things or you're buying things or you're consuming things. And if you're asleep, you're not doing either of those two. So you could argue conspiracy. I don't think it's that.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

And yes, you could argue from a cynical perspective, it's because we want you, from a capitalist society, we really want you to be doing two things. You're either producing things or you're buying things or you're consuming things. And if you're asleep, you're not doing either of those two. So you could argue conspiracy. I don't think it's that.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

And I've actually just recently started a public charity, a foundation specifically designed for global sleep education. Take it a step down. There is the World Health Organization that I spoke to recently. There is no educational module for children translated into 37 different languages across different age ranges that educates them on the importance of sleep.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

And I've actually just recently started a public charity, a foundation specifically designed for global sleep education. Take it a step down. There is the World Health Organization that I spoke to recently. There is no educational module for children translated into 37 different languages across different age ranges that educates them on the importance of sleep.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

And I've actually just recently started a public charity, a foundation specifically designed for global sleep education. Take it a step down. There is the World Health Organization that I spoke to recently. There is no educational module for children translated into 37 different languages across different age ranges that educates them on the importance of sleep.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

So no wonder there is a parent to child transmission of sleep neglect. We have to change that too. Some of it is about education. The second part is mental health. We have a rising tide of anxiety in society. People are so stressed and we get people coming into the center at UC Berkeley and they will say, I am so tired. I am just so tired, but I'm so wired that I can't fall asleep.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

So no wonder there is a parent to child transmission of sleep neglect. We have to change that too. Some of it is about education. The second part is mental health. We have a rising tide of anxiety in society. People are so stressed and we get people coming into the center at UC Berkeley and they will say, I am so tired. I am just so tired, but I'm so wired that I can't fall asleep.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

So no wonder there is a parent to child transmission of sleep neglect. We have to change that too. Some of it is about education. The second part is mental health. We have a rising tide of anxiety in society. People are so stressed and we get people coming into the center at UC Berkeley and they will say, I am so tired. I am just so tired, but I'm so wired that I can't fall asleep.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

It's this tired but wired phenomenon. So the anxiety epidemic is causing sleep problems. And that's adrenal too, right? That's the cortisol rise at night. It's cortisol rise at night. It's because of that, what we call the HPA axis, the sort of the cortisol descending chain.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

It's this tired but wired phenomenon. So the anxiety epidemic is causing sleep problems. And that's adrenal too, right? That's the cortisol rise at night. It's cortisol rise at night. It's because of that, what we call the HPA axis, the sort of the cortisol descending chain.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

It's this tired but wired phenomenon. So the anxiety epidemic is causing sleep problems. And that's adrenal too, right? That's the cortisol rise at night. It's cortisol rise at night. It's because of that, what we call the HPA axis, the sort of the cortisol descending chain.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

It's also because the nervous system almost is forced into a locked position of the fight or flight branch, what we call the sympathetic nervous system, which is anything but sympathetic. It's very agitating. Yeah. And we cannot sleep when we are wired into the fight or flight branch. We have to switch over to the quiescent branch, the parasympathetic.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Sleep Rewires Your Brain, Balances Your Hormones & Extends Your Life | Dr. Matthew Walker

It's also because the nervous system almost is forced into a locked position of the fight or flight branch, what we call the sympathetic nervous system, which is anything but sympathetic. It's very agitating. Yeah. And we cannot sleep when we are wired into the fight or flight branch. We have to switch over to the quiescent branch, the parasympathetic.