Do This Today To Sleep Well Tonight

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🗓️ 3 November 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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From the moment you wake up, your body starts to prepare for sleep. We show you how to adjust your daytime habits to get the best possible night of rest.

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0:00.0	You know the downside of not getting enough sleep? Let me tell you, it is a scary long list.
0:05.6	I'm a health reporter and every week I see a new study.
0:08.8	Lack of sleep, it's linked to anxiety, depression, weight gain, type 2 diabetes, even certain kinds of cancer.
0:15.5	If you understood the damage that insufficient sleep has on the brain and the body as I do, you would choose to do
0:22.1	nothing else. It's purely a selfish act on my behalf that I give myself that eight-hour sleep.
0:28.1	That is sleep guru Matthew Walker. He's a sleep researcher at UC Berkeley and the author of Why
0:33.4	We Sleep. He has made it his mission to convince the world that sleep is important. What is it that you found over the years that really gets people's attention?
0:45.3	I think it's different facts for different populations. You know, for example, sometimes I'll go and speak to a lot of Fortune 500 companies where there is a large dominance of sort of type A males in the audience.
0:56.5	One of the first things I usually say in those speeches is regarding testicles that men who sleep five to six hours a night have significantly smaller testicles than those who sleep seven hours or more.
1:07.9	In addition, that gets their attention.
1:10.4	Yeah, it's the best opening that I've found yet.
1:13.3	Testicles is probably one of the best hooks for maintaining people's attention.
1:17.3	You hook them with small testicles.
1:19.1	Yep.
1:21.6	So clearly all kinds of things can happen to you if you don't get enough sleep.
1:26.1	But scientists have also learned a lot
1:28.3	about how to get those eight hours in and how to improve the quality of our sleep. And it turns out
1:34.1	that process starts from the moment you wake up. This is your NPR life kit for getting better
1:42.4	sleep. I'm Alison Aubrey. I cover health and wellness here at NPR.
1:45.9	And in this episode, we've got five things for you to do today to help you sleep better tonight. support for this NPR podcast and the following message come from LinkedIn and the new LinkedIn learning,
2:04.8	which offers over 13,000 online courses to help you achieve your goals. You can take a course like
2:10.6	mindfulness about the importance of listening, thinking and communicating positively, acting with compassion,
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