Welcome to Three Things with Rick Elias, featuring fascinating conversations with some of the world's most insightful people and three inspiring life lessons at the end of every episode.

Today's episode is all about sleep, featuring one of the world's top experts dr. Matthew Walker he's a professor

of neuroscience and psychology of the University of California Berkeley the founder

and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science and author of the book

Why We Sleep Unlocking the power of sleep and Dreams his groundbreaking research

covers everything from why we sleep what happens to us when we sleep, what happens when we dream, and how sleep impacts our concentration, our memory, our immune system, and more.

His current focus is on the possible link between not getting enough sleep and likelihood of developing Alzheimer's disease.

We tried to keep this short, but there was so much to learn from.

We went ahead and shared the full conversation. Don't miss the end when Rick and Matt go through a

lightning round of things in your life that could be affecting your sleep, like caffeine, alcohol,

what you eat, when you eat, and more. This is three things with Dr. Matthew Walker.

Today on the podcast, we have somebody that I've been looking forward so much to having on the show.

I wanted to wait until we were in person.

So Matt Walker, welcome to Three Things.

Thank you so much for having me here.

It is such a privilege and a pleasure just to, I had a quick look around

for adventures and it is a special place. There is an energy that is undismissible here when you

arrive. So I can imagine it's been a very hard thing to build and you make it look easy.

That's very kind of you.

Non-trivial.

Thank you.

Listen, I've listened to most of your stuff because I'm a student of sleep and therefore a disciple of yours in many regards.

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