Speaker 2
interesting, i was having a conversation with friends last night about how surprising the final health statistics coming out of this whole thing may look. Because if if people, a, have more sleep, a, b ar being isolated, so they're not catching all the other diseases they might be getting. I think, i think flu stats are way down compared to a typical year at this point, partly because of the isolation, um less road deaths, less, who knows what else. I mean, just possiivly there'll be some compensation for the horrifying am death rates that we're goingto see from covit but em, it'st so interesting trying to put those pieces together. And here's, here's what it's also interesting to me, like one of the key symptoms of this virus is to make people incredibly tired, like a fever and incredibly tired. And i afirm, like, it's striking to me that, in principle, we see those things as these awful things that happen. That though those are the viruss weapons, actually, in a way, they're not, right? There are bodies weapons to try to beat the virus. We have a fever to try and burn it off. I think that's medically correct. That's that's a body's natural response with a lo reigens and um. And with sleep. Umit should be just for you, ifyo ifyou're having symptoms and you're feeling realy tired. Does it help at all to say, this isn't the bug, this is me, and to listen to your body and and tojust and to get all the sleep you don wil can?
Speaker 1
I think its a beautiful example, and it's another demonstration of that relationship that we spoke about. I think everyone knows that when you get sick or you common cold, what you really want to do is just curl up in bed and and sort of sleep, sleep it off, as it were. And in fact, we understand that relationship, that when you become infected, there are a set of am changes in immune factors that not only go to work to try and fight these infections, but they actually will signal to sleep that sleep in its in times of its duration is needed in greater amounts. And in fact, there are immune factors that are sleep stimulating factors, because the body knows that the best efforts, a of the most a powerful health curse system that it can call up in its weaponary defence against infection is this thing called sleep. And that's why we actually feel as though we want to sleep more. It's not just because we at home and we're not at work and we have the chance to sleep more. It's that your immune system is actually coopting and bringing sleep into the equation to help fight that infection. Because sleep is so powerful in that regard.
