Sep 3, 2019
Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep.
Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of
why we sleep, or what good it served, or why its absence is so
damaging to our health. Compared to the other basic drives in life
- eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained
elusive.
Professor Matthew Walker discusses with Matt Brittin twenty years
of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters,
how caffeine and alcohol affect sleep and why our sleep patterns
change across a lifetime -- this is a talk that will change how you
think about bedtime!
Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.