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Our
sleep
isn't as regenerative as it could be, but maybe one day soon, we could wear a small device and get more out of our
sleep.
And first, what surprised us was
sleep
was the biggest peak of the day.
Well, it turns out that our physiology during
sleep
is very different than our physiology during wake, and while there's still a bit of a mystery why these peaks are usually the biggest of the day during sleep, we now believe they're related to memory consolidation and memory formation during
sleep.
The blue in the middle, the boy's sleep, is usually the biggest peak of the day.
This is now commercialized by Empatica, a start-up that I had the privilege to cofound, and the team there has done an amazing job improving the technology to make a very beautiful sensor that not only tells time and does steps and
sleep
and all that good stuff, but this is running real-time AI and machine learning to detect generalized tonic-clonic seizures and send an alert for help if I were to have a seizure and lose consciousness.
So here are some designers who are trying to understand what it might feel like to
sleep
in a confined space on an airplane.
I don't
sleep
that much, and I've come to this thing about, like, not sleeping much as being a great virtue, after years of kind of battling it as being a terrible detriment or something.
Sometimes they
sleep
overnight outside the arena, and our first task is to deliver for an audience on their anticipation, to deliver their first sight of the performer.
And Brooks told me in a break here, he said he's found so much stuff he can't sleep, because there's so many great technologies out there, we're essentially buried.
They sleep, eat and even give birth.
A lot of people say: How do you
sleep
at night when you're wrestling with a problem of that magnitude?
I tell them I
sleep
like a baby: I wake up crying every two hours.
Men who
sleep
five hours a night have significantly smaller testicles than those who
sleep
seven hours or more.
In addition, men who routinely
sleep
just four to five hours a night will have a level of testosterone which is that of someone 10 years their senior.
So a lack of
sleep
will age a man by a decade in terms of that critical aspect of wellness.
Not only will I tell you about the wonderfully good things that happen when you get sleep, but the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don't get enough, both for your brain and for your body.
Let me start with the brain and the functions of learning and memory, because what we've discovered over the past 10 or so years is that you need
sleep
after learning to essentially hit the save button on those new memories so that you don't forget.
But recently, we discovered that you also need
sleep
before learning to actually prepare your brain, almost like a dry sponge ready to initially soak up new information.
And without sleep, the memory circuits of the brain essentially become waterlogged, as it were, and you can't absorb new memories.
So we took a group of individuals and we assigned them to one of two experimental groups: a
sleep
group and a
sleep
deprivation group.
Now the
sleep
group, they're going to get a full eight hours of slumber, but the deprivation group, we're going to keep them awake in the laboratory, under full supervision.
I think this should be concerning, considering what we know is happening to
sleep
in our education populations right now.
And when you look at this structure in those people who'd had a full night of sleep, we saw lots of healthy learning-related activity.
So that's the bad that can happen if I were to take
sleep
away from you, but let me just come back to that control group for a second.
Do you remember those folks that got a full eight hours of
sleep?
Well, we can ask a very different question: What is it about the physiological quality of your
sleep
when you do get it that restores and enhances your memory and learning ability each and every day?
And by placing electrodes all over the head, what we've discovered is that there are big, powerful brainwaves that happen during the very deepest stages of
sleep
that have riding on top of them these spectacular bursts of electrical activity that we call
sleep
spindles.
And it is important that we understand what during
sleep
actually transacts these memory benefits, because there are real medical and societal implications.
But what we've also discovered is that a physiological signature of aging is that your
sleep
gets worse, especially that deep quality of
sleep
that I was just discussing.
And it suggests that the disruption of deep
sleep
is an underappreciated factor that is contributing to cognitive decline or memory decline in aging, and most recently we've discovered, in Alzheimer's disease as well.
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