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I'm Rufus Griskem, and this is the next big idea.

Today, how a better night's sleep can revolutionize your health.

I did not sleep very well last night.

I woke up around 3.30 in the morning.

I tried to reinsert myself into my dream, which is a technique I sometimes use without success.

I finally got out of bed and contemplated my big toe, squinted at it, drank a CBD drink

while thinking drowsy thoughts got back into bed.

No luck.

Then I resorted to a glass of wine.

Still, wide awake.

This was made all the worst by by newly expanded knowledge of the consequences of inadequate sleep.

Currency of an extraordinary new book by Oxford neuroscientist Russell Foster called Lifetime.

Your body clock and its essential roles in good health and sleep.

It turns out people who slept for four hours have a higher rate of car accidents than if they were legally drunk.

If you are sleep deprived, you are quite literally walking around intoxicated.

But it's not just about the cognitive impairment.

When we don't get enough sleep, we are cranky, less empathetic.

And we remember a higher proportion of negative experiences.

Isn't that remarkable?

Our immune systems are compromised.

And as if the news couldn't get any worse, repeated over many years sleep deprivation

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