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And the decimation of
sleep
throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact on our health, our wellness, even the safety and the education of our children.
It's a silent
sleep
loss epidemic, and it's fast becoming one of the greatest public health challenges that we face in the 21st century.
I believe it is now time for us to reclaim our right to a full night of sleep, and without embarrassment or that unfortunate stigma of laziness.
And with that soapbox rant over, I will simply say, good night, good luck, and above all ... I do hope you
sleep
well.
Since we can't catch up on sleep, what are we supposed to do?
Sleep
is not like the bank.
I should also note the reason that it's so catastrophic and that our health deteriorates so quickly, first, it's because human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of
sleep
for no apparent reason.
MW: And I make that point because it means that Mother Nature, throughout the course of evolution, has never had to face the challenge of this thing called
sleep
deprivation.
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony
sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
My lab uses fruit flies to study
sleep
and wake patterns, but what I want to talk today is primarily light and its impact on health.
Well, if I closed you in a dark room where you would have no external source of light, no alarm clocks, no clocks of any kind, you would still retain rhythmic
sleep
and wake patterns at least for a little while, because your clock was previously trained to light-dark cycles and one of the main functions of the clock is to regulate behavioral rhythmicity.
But think about it for a second, this is very good for us because now we can use these animals as a model system to understand more about
sleep
biology, and how light influences our clock and our health, and this is what my lab is doing.
So, they
sleep
just like we do, they
sleep
at night.
If we deprive them of sleep, then they crash the next day during the time they would normally be active.
If we deprive them of
sleep
for a long time, they die; so
sleep
is very important for them.
The same genes that regulate
sleep
in humans regulate
sleep
in flies.
Two people in my lab: a postdoc, Iris Titos Vivancos and a PhD student, Michelle Frank, are asking exactly what is this barrier that's established in the brain that prevents sensor information from coming through during
sleep?
So now we're engaged, for instance, here I'm speaking to you, I'm engaged, I'm aware of you, of my surroundings, I'm aware of my internal state; but tonight when I go to sleep, I will be in a completely different state.
And another thing that we're asking which is relevant to what I talked about, to light, is how light coming through the eye is regulating
sleep
and wake patterns?
You can imagine that now we can use this as a model organism to understand what it is that happens in the brain when it's getting light information and how this is interfacing with
sleep
and wake centers in the brain.
You can play computer games, you can sleep, you can read on the way.
I actually go to
sleep
to come up with my ideas, and I've taught myself to wake up to write them down.
So in Kenya with our colleagues, we designed an experiment where we had participants, children in Kenya,
sleep
inside tents.
He said, "Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world."
Despite this early warning, the West chose to go to
sleep
at precisely the moment when China and India and the rest of Asia woke up.
Now what do I mean when I say the West chose to go to
sleep?
Unfortunately, like a dangerous opiate, this essay did a lot of brain damage to the West because it put them to
sleep
just at precisely the moment when China and India were waking up and the West didn't adjust and adapt.
It can also be social withdrawal, when an animal just takes himself or herself away from friends and stays by themselves, or a failure to eat or
sleep
properly, sometimes a depressed posture or vocalization.
These details are so overwhelming Funes has to spend his days in a dark room, and can only
sleep
by imagining a part of town he has never visited.
Health care in the United States assumes that you have a home with a refrigerator for your insulin, a bathroom where you can wash up, a bed where you can
sleep
without worrying about violence while you're resting.
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