#250 Why Sleep is the Most Important Pillar of Health with Professor Matthew Walker (Re-Release)

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

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🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This is the first in a series of re-released episodes from the Feel Better Live More back catalogue. I originally recorded this conversation over 4 years ago and Professor Matthew Walker is one of our most popular guests on the podcast.

Sleep is one of the most undervalued components of our health yet neglecting it can have devastating consequences. In this episode, I talk to world-leading sleep researcher, author of the international best-selling book Why We Sleep and Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, Matthew Walker.

We discuss everything you ever needed to know about sleep. Matthew shares some brilliant tips to combat jet lag, explains how sleep can enhance athletic performance and decrease risk of injury and reveals just how much caffeine consumption can impact sleep. We explore the reasons behind the current global sleep-loss epidemic and how sleep deprivation can affect every aspect of our health – from our blood sugar levels and our risk of heart attack to our mental health.

Finally, we discuss alcohol’s impact on sleep and the staggering financial costs associated with lost sleep. Matthew also shares what he has changed in his own life since starting his research. This is an invaluable conversation – I hope you enjoy it!

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0:00.0	You look across epidemiological studies, millions of individuals in these studies,
0:04.1	a very simple truth comes out which is that the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life,
0:08.5	that short sleep predicts all cause mortality.
0:11.6	You know, the global sleep loss epidemic that is underway right now,
0:15.2	which I believe is probably one of the greatest public health challenges that we now face
0:19.2	in the 21st century, it is a slow form of self-euthanasia.
0:23.8	Hi, my name is Rongen Chastjee.
0:27.6	Welcome to Feel Better Live More.
0:38.6	If you are a regular listener for my show, you will know that the usual pattern of release
0:43.6	for this podcast is a new conversation every Wednesday and a shorter 10 minute bite size
0:49.4	episode every Friday.
0:51.4	But over the next few weeks, what I've decided to do is re-release some of the most popular
0:56.6	podcast episodes to date at the weekends.
0:59.6	Now, the reason I've decided to do this is because at the moment there are a lot of
1:05.3	new listeners coming to this show.
1:07.6	And that's because there's a lot of publicity in the media, the newspapers on television,
1:13.4	and on other people's podcasts, surrounding the release of my brand new book, Happy Mind,
1:19.2	Happy Life.
1:20.2	So for new listeners, I really want to be able to showcase what this podcast is about and
1:26.2	the variety of different topics that I try to cover every week.
1:30.5	Now, if you're a long time listener, I hope that you will enjoy being reminded about
1:35.2	some of the classic episodes from the archive.
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