Professor Annie Curtis

So, you know, we can manage better maybe in a little bit less sleep.

But then on the right hand side, this is when you have too much sleep.

Now, we kind of knew for a while that excessive sleep actually wasn't too good for us.

But now we really know what's going on.

And in terms of excessive sleep, what it is, is

It's not like you're generating new disease.

It's like it's enhancing disease that you already have, right?

Absolutely.

Now, the difference, and they have some tips about what you do if you have short sleep versus long sleep, which I think is really interesting.

But so the long sleep, the excessive sleep, is associated with sort of disease that you're already maybe susceptible for having, right?

And that could include...

depression, chronic inflammation and neurodegenerative disease.

Because we know if you have too much sleep, I always think about sleep like a dishwasher, right?

So when you sleep in the nighttime, the dishwasher goes on and all the things kind of flow through from the brain into kind of the periphery and the kidney and then it gets sent out.

So if you have too much sleep, you don't put the dishwasher on on the highest cycle, okay?

I'm struggling with this.

Sometimes I think you can, you know, drive the arse out of an allergy and that's what I've just done.

Okay.

So then... So then if you have too little sleep, again, what you get is, you know, you sort of get metabolic disease and less amount of glucose being taken up into the tissues.

So if you have too little sleep, what you want to do, like that's less than six hours, what you want to do, and this kind of feeds into circadian rhythms, you want to have consistent timing of when you go to bed.