Let’s shift gears a little and go back to the polysom.Stages of sleep, sleep cycles, and brainwaves That was NOT banned by Guinness, but sleep deprivation was – gives you sense of how dangerous it is not to sleep.Felix Baumgartner went up in hot air balloon to outer surface of Earth and then jumped out, fell over 1000/km/hr, broke sound barrier.Guinness has banned trying to set record for sleep deprivation (record might have been up to 24 days) because it’s so dangerous (cancer, mental health, CVD, metabolic syndrome, suicidality). Deprivation of sleep causes the quickest reduction of health.The record someone survived without food might be 382 days (a lean person maybe 30 days).It’s not the third pillar of good health, I think it is the foundation ” “ Sleep is the foundation on which those two other things sit.Nutrition and exercise are important, but sleep is the foundation.In terms of de-risking just about every disease that is killing us in the developed world, it’s very hard to look no further than sleep.It’s a remarkable health insurance policy, it’s largely democratic, free and largely painless ”‒ Matt Walker “ Sleep is the greatest life support system you could ever wish for. Overnight it changed the way Peter thought about sleep, which was that evolution went to great lengths to do this. You just decided that you’re going to sleep half of what is evolutionarily programmed? … Does it strike you as odd that evolution would have designed us to spend a third of our life, not mating, not watching out for predators, not hunting for food, but doing this thing for some other purpose? Do you think that thing must have been important? ”
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