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What Your Bedtime Says About You with Professor Matt Walker

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

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The Importance of Sleep

Sleep is non-negotiable. It's unfortunately not an optional lifestyle luxury. A lack of sleep will age a man by a decade within just a week in terms of hormonal health. After one week of short sleep, your blood sugar levels are so disrupted that someone like you, the GP, after doing a blood test would actually classify them as being prediabetic. Don't get too anxious to go out at night if you're struggling with sleep. Even I do have bouts of insomnia throughout my life and it happens to all of us. You can stop listening to my voice; don't freak out about the views and the clicks. But please, if people who are struggling with sleep

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