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Why We Sleep The New Science of Sleep and Dreams / Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Midlife Crisis QUOTES

1 " Littered throughout their corporate headquarters are dedicated relaxation rooms with “nap pods.” Employees can indulge in sleep throughout the workday in these “shh” zones, germinating productivity and creativity while enhancing wellness and reducing absenteeism. "

― Matthew Walker , Why We Sleep The New Science of Sleep and Dreams / Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Midlife Crisis

2 " In the mid-1990s, NASA refined the science of sleeping on the job for the benefit of their astronauts. They discovered that naps as short as twenty-six minutes in length still offered a 34 percent improvement in task performance and more than a 50 percent increase in overall alertness. "

― Matthew Walker , Why We Sleep The New Science of Sleep and Dreams / Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Midlife Crisis

3 " Other simple practices? Supply all patients with earplugs and a face mask when they first come onto a ward, just like the complimentary air travel bag you are given on long haul flights. Use dim non-LED lighting at night and bright lighting during the day. This will help maintain strong circadian rhythms in patients, and thus a strong sleep wake pattern. "

― Matthew Walker , Why We Sleep The New Science of Sleep and Dreams / Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Midlife Crisis

4 " In a report that brought together findings from studies over the past forty years of more than 100,000 employed women, those working irregular nighttime hours resulting in poor-quality sleep, such as nurses who performed shift work (a profession occupied almost exclusively by woman at the time of these earlier studies), had a 33 percent higher rate of abnormal menstrual cycles than those working regular daytime hours. Moreover, the woman working erratic hours were 80 percent more likely to suffer from issues of sub-fertility that reduced the ability to get pregnant. Woman who do become pregnant and routinely sleep less than eight hours a night are also significantly more likely to suffer a miscarriage in the first trimester, relative to those consistently sleeping eight hours or more a night. "

― Matthew Walker , Why We Sleep The New Science of Sleep and Dreams / Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Midlife Crisis

5 " I would suggest a "sleep credit system" with sleep time being exchanged for either financial bonuses or extra vacation days. "

― Matthew Walker , Why We Sleep The New Science of Sleep and Dreams / Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Midlife Crisis

6 " Halsted founded the surgical training program at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, in May 1889. As chief of the Department of Surgery, his influence was considerable, and his beliefs about how young doctors must apply themselves to medicine, formidable. The term “residency” came from Halsted’s belief that doctors must live in the hospital for much of their training, allowing them to be truly committed in their learning of surgical skills and medical knowledge.
Halsted’s mentality was difficult to argue with, since he himself practiced what he preached, being renowned for a seemingly superhuman ability to stay awake for apparently days on end without any fatigue. But Halsted had a dirty secret that only came to light years after his death, and helped explain both the maniacal structure of his residency program and his ability to forgo sleep. Halsted was a cocaine addict. "

― Matthew Walker , Why We Sleep The New Science of Sleep and Dreams / Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Midlife Crisis

7 " Those with insomnia need not be penalised. Rather, this method of routine sleep tracking would help them identify this issue and cognitive behavioural therapy could be provided through their smart phones. Insomnia treatment could be incentivised with the same credit benefits, further improving individual health and productivity, creativity and business success. "

― Matthew Walker , Why We Sleep The New Science of Sleep and Dreams / Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Midlife Crisis

8 " This entrenched pomposity, prevalent in so many senior-driven dogmatic institutional hierarchies, has no place in medical practice in my opinion as a scientist intimate with the research data. Those boards must disabuse themselves of the we-suffered-through-sleep-deprivation-and-you-should-too mentality when it comes to training, teaching and practicing medicine. "

― Matthew Walker , Why We Sleep The New Science of Sleep and Dreams / Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Midlife Crisis

9 " That it remains this way in the stoic grip of senior medical officials appears to be a clear case of “my mind is made up, don’t confuse me with the facts. "

― Matthew Walker , Why We Sleep The New Science of Sleep and Dreams / Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Midlife Crisis