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12 Powerful Lessons From The Book "Why We Sleep"

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Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day.

Practice does not make perfect.

It is practice, followed by a night of sleep, that leads to perfection.

Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain.

Many people walk through their lives in an underslept state, not realizing it.

Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours a night demolishes your immune system, more than doubling your risk of cancer.

if you don’t sleep the very first night after learning, you lose the chance to consolidate those memories, even if you get lots of “catch-up” sleep thereafter.

Sleep for memory consolidation is an all-or-nothing event.

Regularity is a key: going to bed at the same time, waking up at the same time no matter what.

Inadequate sleep—even moderate reductions for just one week—disrupts blood sugar levels so profoundly that you would be classified as pre-diabetic.

the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life.

The leading causes of disease and death in developed nations—diseases that are crippling health-care systems, such as heart disease, obesity, dementia, diabetes, and cancer—all have recognized causal links to a lack of sleep.

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.

After all, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Humans are not sleeping the way nature intended.

The number of sleep bouts, the duration of sleep, and when sleep occurs has all been comprehensively distorted by modernity.

Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death.

Thanks for reading.

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