Sleep is your superpower | Matt Walker
TED Health
TED
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🗓️ 13 October 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker. In this deep dive into the science of slumber, Walker shares the wonderfully good things that happen when you get sleep -- and the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don't, for both your brain and body. Learn more about sleep's impact on your learning, memory, immune system and even your genetic code -- as well as some helpful tips for getting some shut-eye.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:03.0 | It's Ted Talk's Daily. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Elis Hugh. |
| 0:10.0 | It's Ted Talks Daily. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Elise Hugh. I don't know about you, but it seems like no one is getting enough sleep these days. |
| 0:17.0 | Not just because we're going through one of the most stressful periods in recent history, but also just because of modern life. |
| 0:24.7 | Today's archive talk from TED 2019 features sleep scientist Matt Walker who shares the key |
| 0:30.4 | insights from his research about the importance of sleep and how all of us can get better, more quality shut-eye. |
| 0:38.0 | For more facts and secrets about our nightly slumber, check out Matt's video series Sleeping with Science on TED.com. at least audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to |
| 0:53.8 | respond please visit survey dot PRX.org slash health to take the survey today |
| 1:00.6 | that survey dot PRX.org. |
| 1:03.4 | Thanks. |
| 1:06.4 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:08.4 | Well, I would like to start with testicles. Men who sleep five hours a night have significantly smaller testicles |
| 1:20.0 | than those who sleep seven hours. |
| 1:22.0 | In addition, men who routinely sleep just four to five hours a night |
| 1:27.0 | will have a level of testosterone, |
| 1:29.5 | which is that of someone 10 years their senior. |
| 1:34.1 | So a lack of sleep will age a man by a decade |
| 1:37.9 | in terms of that critical aspect of wellness. |
| 1:41.8 | And we see equivalent imperments in female reproductive health caused by a lack of sleep. |
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