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Maintenance Phase · December 14, 2021 · 56m
The Sleep Loss Epidemic
Is there really a sleep loss epidemic? Hobbes examines Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep claims and finds significant exaggerations: the data on sleep duration decline is weaker than claimed, and the health effects of modest sleep reduction are overstated.
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Hobbes notes the paradox: sleep tracking devices, sold to improve sleep, often worsen it by creating performance anxiety around sleep scores — a new metric to fail at.
Highlights
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Sleep science is more nuanced than the panic suggests — Walker's claims are overstated
Hobbes documents that Walker's 'sleeping less than 7 hours doubles your cancer risk' claim was based on cherry-picked studies, and that the actual dose-response curve for sleep and health is much flatter than presented.Was this useful?