Matthew Walker Quotes

“After all, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

“Our lack of sleep is a slow form of self-euthanasia.”

“REM-sleep dreaming offers a form of overnight therapy. That is, REM-sleep dreaming takes the painful sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional episodes you have experienced during the day, offering emotional resolution when you awake the next morning.”

“Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours a night demolishes your immune system, more than doubling your risk of cancer.”

“Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day – Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death.”

“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”

“The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. The leading causes of disease and death in developed nations—diseases that are crippling health-care systems, such as heart disease, obesity, dementia, diabetes, and cancer—all have recognized causal links to a lack of sleep.”