Sleep Deprivation
topic on 3 shows · 7 statements across 6 episodes
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Lyon: Sleep Deprivation Suppresses Muscle Protein Synthesis
“When you have sleep deprivation, you are more likely to make mistakes. Not to mention your muscle protein synthesis, which is a big fancy word for it's kind of a proxy for muscle health is suppressed.”
Johnson: Human sexuality completely shuts down when individuals are sleep-deprived
“Often their sexual relationship goes straight downhill, and we can make all kinds of funny meanings about that, but the bottom line is, your sexuality shuts down when you're sleep deprived.”
Poe: Falling asleep within two minutes usually indicates sleep deprivation
“However, if you really are asleep in two minutes, like if you have a bed partner and they're snoring in two minutes time after their head hit the pillow, it's probably a sign that they're not getting enough sleep.”
Furman: Postpartum sleep deprivation mirrors tactics used in wartime torture
“When you're not, when you're sleeping in 2:03 hour increments, that's a form of war torture that people use still to this day. Sleep deprivation is a very common form of torture.”
Walker: Waking two hours early can cost up to 70% of REM sleep
“You may have lost 25% of your total sleep, but you may have lost 50, 60, even 70% of all of your rapid eye movement sleep. Because rapid eye movement sleep comes in those last couple of hours of the night.”
Walker: Sleep Loss Doubles Risk for Specific Cancers, Not All Cancers
“A lack of sleep can double your risk for Certain forms of cancer, and then name those cancers, and those, for example those cancers would be thyroid cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer myeloma, which is a form of a blood cancer linked to, it's in the ilk of so…”