From The Vault: Neuroscientist Matthew Walker On Why Sleep Is Your Superpower
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Firstly, it's during sleep and particularly during deep sleep where the body will be stimulated to produce many more of those critical immune factors. Even better, the sleep will actually increase the sensitivity and the receptivity of your body to those increased immune factors. So you wake up the next morning as a more robust immune individual. Sleep will restock the weaponry in your immune arsenal.
You know, starting with this recommended sweet spot of between seven to nine hours a night, going in the downward direction, there's a very simple truth, which is that the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. Short sleep predicts all cause mortality. Sleep is the single most effective thing that we can do each day to reset the health of our body. brain and our body. I'm Matt Walker and this is the Rich Roll Podcast.
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