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“Why, then, would we expect sleep—and the twenty-five to thirty years, on average, it takes from our lives—to offer one function only?”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

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“a 20 percent learning advantage for those who slept.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

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“Universal parental wisdom knows that bad sleep the night before leads to a bad mood and emotional reactivity the next day.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

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“Not sleeping enough, which for a portion of the population is a voluntary choice, significantly modifies your gene transcriptome—that is, the very essence of you, or at least you as defined biologically by your DNA. Neglect sleep, and you are deciding to perform a genetic engineering manipulation on yourself each night, tampering with the nucleic alphabet that spells out your daily health story.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

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“Irwin demonstrated that a single night of four hours of sleep—such as going to bed at three a.m. and waking up at seven a.m.—swept away 70 percent of the natural killer cells circulating in the immune system, relative to a full eight-hour night of sleep. That is a dramatic state of immune deficiency to find yourself facing, and it happens quickly, after essentially one “bad night” of sleep.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

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