Dr. Matthew Walker

Everybody that's a shift worker that's listening to this, or most of the people that are shift workers, because I would imagine if you couldn't deal with it, if you were insufficiently sleep flexible when it comes to moving around your shift work, you would have lasted a couple of years and been like, I can't keep doing this. It's just going to kill me.

Everybody that's a shift worker that's listening to this, or most of the people that are shift workers, because I would imagine if you couldn't deal with it, if you were insufficiently sleep flexible when it comes to moving around your shift work, you would have lasted a couple of years and been like, I can't keep doing this. It's just going to kill me.

So yeah, again, we're very adaptable, at least for me, we're very adaptable. I had a full Intellix DNA genetic screen done, which was the super uber, Platinum, everything, everything, everything. Nothing came up for sleep. A bunch of stuff for sort of dopamine, epi, norepi, but nothing really came up for sleep. So that was kind of interesting to me. So I guess a question I've got

So yeah, again, we're very adaptable, at least for me, we're very adaptable. I had a full Intellix DNA genetic screen done, which was the super uber, Platinum, everything, everything, everything. Nothing came up for sleep. A bunch of stuff for sort of dopamine, epi, norepi, but nothing really came up for sleep. So that was kind of interesting to me. So I guess a question I've got

So yeah, again, we're very adaptable, at least for me, we're very adaptable. I had a full Intellix DNA genetic screen done, which was the super uber, Platinum, everything, everything, everything. Nothing came up for sleep. A bunch of stuff for sort of dopamine, epi, norepi, but nothing really came up for sleep. So that was kind of interesting to me. So I guess a question I've got

What happens to all of the Qs, the R and the T, as we age over time? What starts to get manipulated and changed in terms of all of those as we grow up, as we get older? Yeah, bloody great question.

What happens to all of the Qs, the R and the T, as we age over time? What starts to get manipulated and changed in terms of all of those as we grow up, as we get older? Yeah, bloody great question.

What happens to all of the Qs, the R and the T, as we age over time? What starts to get manipulated and changed in terms of all of those as we grow up, as we get older? Yeah, bloody great question.

The first two Qs get much harder. It's much harder to get the same amount of sleep that you did in your 30s, 20s or 40s when you're 60, 70 or 80. And this is one of the myths in sleep. People used to think, well, older adults need less sleep. And if you look, they'll on average get maybe six, six and a half hours of sleep.

The first two Qs get much harder. It's much harder to get the same amount of sleep that you did in your 30s, 20s or 40s when you're 60, 70 or 80. And this is one of the myths in sleep. People used to think, well, older adults need less sleep. And if you look, they'll on average get maybe six, six and a half hours of sleep.

The first two Qs get much harder. It's much harder to get the same amount of sleep that you did in your 30s, 20s or 40s when you're 60, 70 or 80. And this is one of the myths in sleep. People used to think, well, older adults need less sleep. And if you look, they'll on average get maybe six, six and a half hours of sleep.

What we now understand is that older adults still need the same amount of sleep as they did when they were in their 40s. The difference is their brain simply can't generate the sleep that they need. And I've always been perplexed by that mentality of people just saying, well, older adults get less sleep, so older adults need less sleep.

What we now understand is that older adults still need the same amount of sleep as they did when they were in their 40s. The difference is their brain simply can't generate the sleep that they need. And I've always been perplexed by that mentality of people just saying, well, older adults get less sleep, so older adults need less sleep.

What we now understand is that older adults still need the same amount of sleep as they did when they were in their 40s. The difference is their brain simply can't generate the sleep that they need. And I've always been perplexed by that mentality of people just saying, well, older adults get less sleep, so older adults need less sleep.

That's the equivalent of saying, well, older adults have weaker bones because older adults just don't need bones that are as strong in later life. No, we don't say that. We treat them with calcium and resistance training to try to maintain that bone density. Why don't we take the same mentality with sleep? So firstly, quantity gets much harder. It's harder to generate the sleep.

That's the equivalent of saying, well, older adults have weaker bones because older adults just don't need bones that are as strong in later life. No, we don't say that. We treat them with calcium and resistance training to try to maintain that bone density. Why don't we take the same mentality with sleep? So firstly, quantity gets much harder. It's harder to generate the sleep.

That's the equivalent of saying, well, older adults have weaker bones because older adults just don't need bones that are as strong in later life. No, we don't say that. We treat them with calcium and resistance training to try to maintain that bone density. Why don't we take the same mentality with sleep? So firstly, quantity gets much harder. It's harder to generate the sleep.

And we know why, because as we get older, just like our body deteriorates. our brain also deteriorates. The problem is that your brain does not deteriorate in a homogeneous manner. What I mean by that is some parts of your brain rapidly deteriorate, or at least more rapidly than other parts of the brain.

And we know why, because as we get older, just like our body deteriorates. our brain also deteriorates. The problem is that your brain does not deteriorate in a homogeneous manner. What I mean by that is some parts of your brain rapidly deteriorate, or at least more rapidly than other parts of the brain.

And we know why, because as we get older, just like our body deteriorates. our brain also deteriorates. The problem is that your brain does not deteriorate in a homogeneous manner. What I mean by that is some parts of your brain rapidly deteriorate, or at least more rapidly than other parts of the brain.