Dr. Matt Walker
5 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 22, 2022 by Dr. Matt Walker · across every show →
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Feb 22, 2022
Walker: Falsely telling people they slept poorly degrades cognitive performance
“And then you have them perform a set of tests, and lo and behold, despite both groups having, on average, about the same amount of sleep, the group that was psychologically informed as to having insufficient sleep performs insufficiently on the cognitive level…”
Feb 22, 2022
Walker: Average US sleep dropped from 7.9 hours in 1942 to 6.5 hours
“There was a Gallup poll that was performed back in 1941 or 1940, I think it was 1942, sorry. And what they found was that On average the human adults in that survey reported sleeping 7.9 hours a night on average. But now, based on data from the National Sleep …”
Feb 22, 2022 negative
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…”
Feb 22, 2022
Walker: Habitual 7.3-hour sleepers stabilized at 8.5 hours in sleep experiment
“They were sleeping about 7.3 hours every night, and they said subjectively, I feel fine. I feel well rested. So then they brought them into the laboratory for eight nights straight, And then they gave them an extended amount of time in bed. I think it was almo…”
Feb 22, 2022
Walker: Get out of bed if you cannot fall asleep after 25 minutes
“Let's call the average of 25 minutes. If it's been 25 minutes or longer, and you still haven't fallen asleep, then it's usually time to get out of bed and try and do something different, and just recognize that you're not, you've kind of missed your sleep trai…”