Sleep is the Boss of You – Matthew Walker, Ph.D. : 616
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, my guest is Matthew Walker, Ph.D., aka “The Sleep Diplomat.” When it comes to matters of sleep, he does not mince words: “We’re in the midst of a “catastrophic sleep-loss epidemic,” he says.
As a professor of Neuroscience and Psychologyat the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science, his research examines the impact of sleep on human health and disease. He’s also the lead sleep scientist at Google.
His international best-selling book, “Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams,” has sold more than 1 million copies worldwide and been translated into 34 languages. But be warned—the startling science he presents about sleep may keep you up at night.
Matthew has been featured on television and radio outlets, including CBS’s 60 Minutes, the National Geographic Channel, NOVA Science, NPR, and the BBC, as well as in national and international publications, and on numerous podcasts. His main-stage TED Talk—Sleep is Your Superpower—was one of the fastest to reach 1 million views within hours of release. It’s been viewed well over 5.2 million times as of this episode air date and continues to climb.
I was eager to have Matthew on the show to talk about our lack of sleep and examine sleep’s connection to health and brain function. Our conversation covers all that and much more. “There is no single system of the body or the brain that isn't optimally enhanced by sleep when you get it, or detrimentally impaired when you don't get enough,” he says.
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| 0:00.0 | When you're stacking your biohacks, one of the most important things you can do is make sure that |
| 0:04.4 | you recover properly because you get rest. That's when your body recovers. In fact, that's part |
| 0:10.6 | of the laziness principle from my book Smarter Not Harder. And one of the things I like to use |
| 0:16.1 | is an infrared sauna like Sunlighten. That's because you actually rest while you're in the sauna, |
| 0:22.4 | but more importantly, it makes you get really good sleep at night. There are tons of studies |
| 0:27.7 | that show that sauna heat works really, really well. And the kind of deeply effective |
| 0:33.6 | rest you get when you get out of the sauna is what retarges you physiologically and mentally. |
| 0:39.3 | Better yet, because you're detoxing in the sauna, you'll be able to handle the stress that you |
| 0:43.7 | face every single day. Sunlighten has four sauna collections. Each has a different combination of |
| 0:49.6 | light and heat and invests in your rest. Go to sunlighten.com slash day. I mentioned day |
| 0:56.0 | vast free and you can save up to $600 on your sauna. I was grabbing a danger coffee with my friend |
| 1:00.9 | the other day and out of the blue, he said, Dave, what do you do for your skin? I left it first because |
| 1:06.0 | it's not like I have a complex skin care routine. But I do know that my skin is the largest organ in |
| 1:11.9 | my body and it is the first line of defense against the world and it's really permeable if you don't |
| 1:17.4 | take care of it. So I do take care of my skin. And one of the few things that I found that works |
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| 1:48.0 | your skin. It's made a big difference in how my skin looks and feels. So pay attention to your |
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