The "Sleep Loss Epidemic"
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
4.8 • 16.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" was one of the most popular and acclaimed wellness books of 2017. There's just one problem: Much of it isn't true.
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Links!
- Walker's TED Talk
- Alexey's blog post: Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
- Walker’s Response
- Trouble With TED
- Does daylight savings kill people?
- Why We Sleep: A Tale Of Institutional Failure
- Is Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors?
- Up All Night: The science of sleeplessness
- Exploring the Necessity and Virtue of Sleep
- Why Do We Sleep?
- Siesta in Healthy Adults and Coronary Mortality in the General Population
- A Chronobiological Evaluation of the Acute Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Traffic Accident Risk
- Has Adult Sleep Duration Declined Over the Last 50+ Years?
- Americans Are Sleeping More, If Not Necessarily Better
- High-profile sleep researcher loses paper for duplication
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:11.4 | Hi everybody and welcome to Maintenance Phase, the podcast that already knows it's gonna die, |
| 0:15.4 | you don't have to tell us it's fine. |
| 0:17.2 | We're a J-shaped podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | We've been shaped mortality. |
| 0:20.8 | I always thought of this as an Apple-shaped podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | I am Michael Hobbs. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm Aubrey Gordon. |
| 0:26.0 | If you would like to support the show, you can do that at patreon.com slash maintenance |
| 0:29.8 | phase where you can get bonus episodes like this month's forthcoming bonus episode where we are |
| 0:34.0 | doing an award ceremony. |
| 0:36.8 | Yes, so we're gonna do the best and worst wellness influencers. |
| 0:40.7 | We're gonna do the best and worst wellness trends of 2021 and we have been taking nominations |
| 0:46.8 | and we are really excited to dive in and give the uh, |
| 0:51.3 | smelly moon juice crown to somebody. |
| 0:54.0 | Why is it smelly? |
| 0:55.2 | I don't know. I don't know where I was going with that. |
| 0:57.1 | I just, I just was talking. |
| 0:58.4 | I don't know either but I like it. |
| 1:01.3 | Okay, we just learned like 30 seconds before we started recording that I had switched topics |
| 1:07.9 | for this week and I thought that I told you but I did not in fact tell you. |
| 1:12.2 | So I was supposed to do an episode on obesity and COVID but I got sidetracked and pulled by my own |
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