Ep171 - Matthew Walker | Sleep in Uncertain Times
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How Much Should We Be Getting?
One week of six hours of sleep in healthy adults will distort well over 700 gens. Even the verysot of knuck and cranny of your dna, neuclaic alphabet that spells out your daily health narrative is impacted by a lack of sleep. The average range should be somewhere between seven to nine hours of sleep at night. And we know that once you drop below seven hours, that's when things start to become deleterious. Short sleep predicts or cause mortality. But it's not just about your life span. I think what is more critical is our health span. It's living longer with health that we want to do. Sleep provides port for both parts of that
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