7 Quotes from Why We Sleep
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1)The less you sleep, the more you are likely to eat.
2)The two most feared diseases through developed nations are dementia and cancer.
3)Sleep Loss and Sports Injury
4)Older Adults simply need less sleep is a myth. Older adults appear to need just as much sleep as they do in midlife, but are simply less able to generate that sleep.
5)Sleep before learning refreshes our ability to initially make new memories.
6) it is clear that a tired, under slept brain is little more than a leaky memory sieve, in no state to receive, absorb, or efficiently retain an education.
7)Compared to reading a printed book, reading on an iPad suppress melatonin released by over 50% at night. Indeed, iPad reading delayed the rise of Melatonin by up to 3 hours, relative to the natural rise in these same individuals when reading a printed book.
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