Why We Sleep

Nine ideas from the book “Why we sleep: unlocking the power of sleep and dreams” 😴

➡️ The shorter our sleep, the shorter our life.

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

➡️ When sleep is abundant, our mind flourishes. When it is deficient, it doesn’t.

➡️ 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.

➡️ Inadequate sleep disrupts blood sugar levels so profoundly that we would be classified as pre-diabetic.

➡️ The leading causes of disease and death in developed nations all have recognized causal links to a lack of sleep.

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

➡️ We are not sleeping the way nature intended. The number of sleep bouts, the duration and when sleep occurs have all been distorted by modernity.