Dr. Matthew Walker

It changes your ability to dispose of food and specifically regulate your blood sugar. So you are more obesogenic in terms of your profile of weight gain. You crave more carbs and sugar.

Yeah. That's all you want. And that's exactly, it's not just that you eat more, which you do. It's what you eat. That's the problem. You go after the heavy hitting stodgy carbohydrates, simple sugars, and you shy away from the, the sort of, you know, the leafy greens, the nuts and the good proteins, because you are just on a junk food binge.

Yeah. That's all you want. And that's exactly, it's not just that you eat more, which you do. It's what you eat. That's the problem. You go after the heavy hitting stodgy carbohydrates, simple sugars, and you shy away from the, the sort of, you know, the leafy greens, the nuts and the good proteins, because you are just on a junk food binge.

Yeah. That's all you want. And that's exactly, it's not just that you eat more, which you do. It's what you eat. That's the problem. You go after the heavy hitting stodgy carbohydrates, simple sugars, and you shy away from the, the sort of, you know, the leafy greens, the nuts and the good proteins, because you are just on a junk food binge.

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That's right. And you can see that same replication of failure across multiple organ systems. So for example, I take a young healthy set of males, I limit them to let's say four or five hours of sleep for five nights, they will have a level of testosterone, which is that of someone 10 years their senior. So I can age a healthy young man by 10 years by short sleeping them for a week.

That's right. And you can see that same replication of failure across multiple organ systems. So for example, I take a young healthy set of males, I limit them to let's say four or five hours of sleep for five nights, they will have a level of testosterone, which is that of someone 10 years their senior. So I can age a healthy young man by 10 years by short sleeping them for a week.

That's right. And you can see that same replication of failure across multiple organ systems. So for example, I take a young healthy set of males, I limit them to let's say four or five hours of sleep for five nights, they will have a level of testosterone, which is that of someone 10 years their senior. So I can age a healthy young man by 10 years by short sleeping them for a week.

You can take people who have perfectly regulated blood sugar, no problems with their blood glucose whatsoever. Put them on that same regiment of four or five nights of short sleep. And at the end of it, someone like you would look at their blood work and you would say, you are bordering on being pre-diabetic right now. Again, that's within the space of days.

You can take people who have perfectly regulated blood sugar, no problems with their blood glucose whatsoever. Put them on that same regiment of four or five nights of short sleep. And at the end of it, someone like you would look at their blood work and you would say, you are bordering on being pre-diabetic right now. Again, that's within the space of days.

You can take people who have perfectly regulated blood sugar, no problems with their blood glucose whatsoever. Put them on that same regiment of four or five nights of short sleep. And at the end of it, someone like you would look at their blood work and you would say, you are bordering on being pre-diabetic right now. Again, that's within the space of days.

So I think it's, again, a demonstration to us that sleep, we don't have any real wiggle room.

So I think it's, again, a demonstration to us that sleep, we don't have any real wiggle room.

So I think it's, again, a demonstration to us that sleep, we don't have any real wiggle room.

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 safe sex, we've had it for, you know, all of these different things, but there's nothing there for sleep.

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 safe sex, we've had it for, you know, all of these different things, but there's nothing there for sleep.

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 safe sex, we've had it for, you know, all of these different things, but there's nothing there for sleep.

And yes, you could argue from a cynical perspective, it's because we want you, you know, from a capitalist society, we really want you to be doing two things. You're either, you know, 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.