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Medicine 3.0: Extending Human Lifespan with Dr. Peter Attia

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The Importance of Sleep

Sleep does more than just restore things in your brain, says Matthew Walker. It's also a time when some of the most important hormones are being synthesized or at least signals that tell those hormones to be made. A week of significant sleep deprivation will induce profound insulin resistance in about a week, he says.

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