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- Author: Matthew Walker
Highlights
Within the brain, sleep enriches a diversity of functions, including our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions and choices. — location: 110
Downstairs in the body, sleep restocks the armory of our immune system, helping fight malignancy, preventing infection, and warding off all manner of sickness — location: 116
Sleep reforms the body’s metabolic state by fine-tuning the balance of insulin and circulating glucose. — location: 117
Adequate sleep is intimately tied to the fitness of our cardiovascular system, lowering blood pressure while keeping our hearts in fine condition. — location: 119
For me, answers were simply a way to get to the next question. — location: 139
The answer it had provided me, like all good answers, only led to more fascinating questions, — location: 149
the good, the bad, and the deathly of sleep and sleep loss. We will explore — location: 165