Ep56 - Matthew Walker: "Why Sleep Matters"
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How Do You Know You Look Tired?
A lot of what you cover in the book and if you've covered in your research is the health issues that arise from lack of sleep. What happens to you? Cognitively, fitness-wise, illness-wise, attractiveness-wise, what are the things that happen? Let me start with attractiveness. We've all heard of this thing called beauty sleep, this old tale that you would get. Well, it's actually true. There was a wonderful study done in Sweden where they took a group of healthy young individuals and gave them a full night of sleep and then deprived them a night of sleep. And even though these judges knew nothing about the experimental conditions, they routinely rated you when you
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