Dr. Michael Grandner

It's about sorting through information, processing information, consolidating information, integrating information.

And if you're not able to do those things, you're operating

Inefficiently, you're not performing those functions.

But memory is also a function of attention where if you're not able to focus and attend, even if your memory machinery was working perfectly, you have nothing to process because it never got in there.

This is the thing with people taking sedating medication.

Sometimes it impairs memory.

Sometimes it impairs attention, which also impairs memory.

Wow.

Um, so, I mean, that's why a lot of these medications and stuff, um,

And really anything that is impairing your ability to focus will have ripple effects to memory and decision-making as well because the information you took in informs those other processes.

I mean, just like most simply, you can't recall a memory that never got stored because your working memory couldn't process it because you didn't attend to it in the first place.

Maybe.

Maybe.

I mean, there's a lot of untreated sleep apnea out there.

And there's a lot of other sleep problems, too.

And they all... I mean...

sleep does a lot sleep.

You know, we live in this society that sees sleep as an unproductive use of time, especially people who are training, especially people who are like trying to maximize their day.

And sleep is not an unproductive use of time.

Sleep is an extremely productive use of time.