Qualy #129 - Evolutionary reasons to sleep

The Peter Attia Drive

Peter Attia, MD

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Fitness

4.7 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode of The Qualys is from podcast #47 – Matthew Walker, Ph.D., on sleep – Part I of III: Dangers of poor sleep, Alzheimer’s risk, mental health, memory consolidation, and more.

The Qualys is a subscriber-exclusive podcast, released Tuesday through Friday, and published exclusively on our private, subscriber-only podcast feed. Qualys is short-hand for “qualifying round,” which are typically the fastest laps driven in a race car—done before the race to determine starting position on the grid for race day. The Qualys are short (i.e., “fast”), typically less than ten minutes, and highlight the best questions, topics, and tactics discussed on The Drive.

Occasionally, we will also release an episode on the main podcast feed for non-subscribers, which is what you are listening to now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Peter Atia Qualies, a member exclusive podcast.
0:16.3	The Qualies is just a shorthand slang for Qualification Round, which is something you do prior
0:20.6	to the race, just much quicker.
0:22.5	The Qualies highlight the best of the questions, topics and tactics that are discussed in previous
0:28.0	episodes of the drive.
0:30.1	So if you enjoy the quality, you can access dozens more of them through our membership
0:33.6	program.
0:35.2	Without further delay, I hope you enjoy today's quality.
0:40.9	Firstly, it took Mother Nature 3.6 million years to put this 8-hour thing called a night
0:46.7	of sleep in place.
0:49.0	And within the space of 70 years, if you look at the data, we've locked off almost 20-25
0:54.4	percent of that.
0:55.4	Imagine coming along and saying, you know, in the next 100 years, I think what I'm going
1:00.3	to do is for the entirety of human society, I'm going to reduce their oxygen saturation
1:06.2	by about 20-25 percent.
1:08.2	Do you think that's a good idea?
1:10.0	I'm the answer is no.
1:12.2	No, it's such a great example.
1:13.7	I'll pause for a moment just to tell a funny story that you and I have talked about
1:17.2	off-mic, which is, I've been told about 2012.
1:20.3	I was in the, I'll sleep when I'm dead camp.
1:22.8	And I know what led to that.
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