Good day!
This video is long overdue, so let's dive right into it!
The habit I want to talk about today is sleep!
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Most of you heard the phrase - "i'll sleep when im dead" or maybe some of you still use it. Once I learned the consequences of sleep deprivation I Shift + deleted it from my vocabulary.
Some time ago I watched Joe Rogan's podcast, he had a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology as a guest - Matthew Walker.
This guy blew my mind, here is the full podcast if you are interested! I highly recommend!
But if you have just a few minutes, that's good enough! I will list a couple of facts that might make you reconsider your sleeping routine.
Effects of having a high-quality 7-9 hour sleep:
- You will perform newly learned tasks 20-30% better than the day before. (When sleep deprived, same tasks - 20 to 30% reduction in performance)
- Natural perfomance enchancing drug;
- Higher levels of testosterone;
...and much more.
I want to focus more on the effects of sleep deprivation, let's take a look:
- Time to physical exhaustion is 30% faster. (You can probably notice that running after 5h sleep is way harder);
- Short sleep predicts all cause mortality (The shorter the sleep, the shorter the life)
- Night shifts can cause cancer because they disrupt sleep wake rhythm (i'm working night shifts lol)
- Tendencies to eat on average 300ckal more than an average day;
- Tendencies to eat crappy foods;
- Brain has no capacity to regain all of the lost sleep. (sleep is not a bank. You can't accumulate all the debt through the week and try to repay it on the weekend)
- 4 hours of sleep will reduce critical anticancer immune cells by 70%. (Less cells are protecting your from cancer when sleep deprived)
If that doesn't freak you out, you probably have a healthy sleeping pattern. Good for you haha
Okay here is one more last fact:
When we loose 1 hour of sleep with the daylight savings time, there is a 24% increase in heart attacks Worldwide.
When we gain an hour of sleep - 21% reduction in heart attacks.
So I what I'm trying to say is that I am freaked out by the negative side effects and will work on improving my sleeping habits, and I invite you to do the same!
That's it for today. Stay tuned for more content!
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