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Matthew Walker: The World’s No.1 Sleep Expert (The 6 Sleep Hacks You NEED!)

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When you're struggling with sleep in the middle of the night and you're wide awake, in the last hour before bed, try this experiment. I'm s I'm sold. Matthew Walker, neuroscientist and selling author, and one of the world's leading researchers in sleep science. It's gonna blow your mind. we have this mentality in business. Less sleep equals more productivity. That is just not true. Insufficient sleep costs most nations about$411 billion. Jesus.

your rates of obesity, cardiovascular disease, mental health conditions, all of these things escalate. If that wasn't bad enough, if you're not getting sufficient sleep, then 60% of all of the weight that you lose. will come from lean muscle mass and not fat. Not the muscle. How would you redesign society to help us to sleep better? Feels like caffeine is a miracle job with no apparent cost. Was I wrong or was I right?

wrong. Caffeine will hurt your sleep in three ways most people are not aware of. So if you have a cup of coffee at midday, what happens is that Uh I have spent The longest time. trying to sit down with you on this podcast. So I'm very, very happy to spend some time with you today.

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