
Ep. 947: Purpose, Audacity and Sleep with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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The Effects of Lack of Sleep on Gene Expression
A lack of sleep can erode the very fabric of biological life itself, which is your DNA genetic code. In one study, they limited a group of otherwise completely healthy adults to one week of six hours of sleep. A sizable and significant 711 genes were changed in their activity caused by that insufficient sleep. If we don't let our children get the sleep that they need, we are inflicting a similar genetic engineering experiment on them as well.
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