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Paywall, so apologies if the articles covers this but I couldn’t see it in the sector could read. I recently finished reading “Why We Sleep” which is an intere
by glenngillen 4y ago
Paywall, so apologies if the articles covers this but I couldn’t see it in the sector could read.
I recently finished reading “Why We Sleep” which is an interesting exploration of this topic for those that are curious. Written by a researcher in the area, with call-outs to the actual research and IMO a reasonably measured approach to clarifying the difference between “what we know”, “what we have correlation to believe, but…”, and “what intuition / studies in mice / others has suggested might be true, but…”.
It’s definitely given me a lot to think about with my own life choices.
- eadler 4y agoI haven't read "why we sleep" but this is an interesting article: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/ https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/ which claims the book isn't all that great.
- laserlight 4y agoThere’s another article [0], which states Guzey’s article isn’t all that great. [0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sbcmACvB6DqYXYidL/counter-theses-on-sleep https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sbcmACvB6DqYXYidL/counter-th...
- glenngillen 4y agoThanks for sharing this, I've got more reading to do! Though it's not off to a great start because the very first claim "U-shaped relationship between length of sleep and longevity, i.e. both short- and long-duration sleep are associated with higher mortality" is actually stated in the book :/