Episodes

  • Appendix

    Appendix
    Mar 8 2025
    Appendix Twelve Tips for Healthy Sleep I 1. Stick to a sleep schedule. Go to bed and wake up at the same time each day. As creatures of habit, people have a hard time adjusting to changes in sleep patterns.
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    22 mins
  • Acknowledgments

    Acknowledgments
    Mar 7 2025
    Acknowledgments The staggering devotion of my fellow sleep scientists in the field, and that of the students in my own laboratory, made this book possible.
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    5 mins
  • Conclusion

    Conclusion
    Mar 6 2025
    Conclusion To Sleep or Not to Sleep Within the space of a mere hundred years, human beings have abandoned their biologically mandated need for adequate sleep—one that evolution spent 3,400,000 years perfecting in service of life-support functions.
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    4 mins
  • A New Vision for Sleep in the Twenty-First Century

    A New Vision for Sleep in the Twenty-First Century
    Mar 5 2025
    CHAPTER 16 A New Vision for Sleep in the Twenty-First Century Accepting that our lack of sleep is a slow form of self-euthanasia, what can be done about it?
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    18 mins
  • Sleep and Society: What Medicine and Education Are Doing Wrong; What Google and NASA Are Doing Righ

    Sleep and Society: What Medicine and Education Are Doing Wrong; What Google and NASA Are Doing Righ
    Mar 4 2025
    CHAPTER 15 Sleep and Society: What Medicine and Education Are Doing Wrong; What Google and NASA Are Doing Right A hundred years ago, less than 2 percent of the population in the United States slept six hours or less a night. Now, almost 30 percent of American adults do.
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    23 mins
  • Hurting and Helping Your Sleep: Pills vs. Therapy

    Hurting and Helping Your Sleep: Pills vs. Therapy
    Mar 3 2025
    CHAPTER 14 Hurting and Helping Your Sleep Pills vs. Therapy In the past month, almost 10 million people in America will have swallowed some kind of a sleeping aid. Most relevant, and a key focus of this chapter, is the (ab)use of prescription sleeping pills.
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    17 mins
  • iPads, Factory Whistles, and Nightcaps: What’s Stopping You from Sleeping?

    iPads, Factory Whistles, and Nightcaps: What’s Stopping You from Sleeping?
    Mar 2 2025
    CHAPTER 13 iPads, Factory Whistles, and Nightcaps What’s Stopping You from Sleeping? Many of us are beyond tired. Why? What, precisely, about modernity has so perverted our otherwise instinctual sleep patterns, eroded our freedom to sleep, and thwarted our ability to do so soundly across the night?
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    28 mins
  • Things That Go Bump in the Night: Sleep Disorders and Death Caused by No Sleep

    Things That Go Bump in the Night: Sleep Disorders and Death Caused by No Sleep
    Mar 1 2025
    From Sleeping Pills to Society Transformed CHAPTER 12 Things That Go Bump in the Night: Sleep Disorders and Death Caused by No Sleep Few other areas of medicine offer a more disturbing or astonishing array of disorders than those concerning sleep. Considering how tragic and remarkable disorders in those other fields can be, this is quite a claim.
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    43 mins