I just went down a rabbit hole reading Guzey's post & responses to his post. I must admit, I'm doubtful about Matt Walker's data on sleep duration specially. Even though he addressed some of the concerns, he didn't talk about data manipulation, which is not cool.
And his statement on "the shorter your sleep, the shorter your lifespan" see…
I just went down a rabbit hole reading Guzey's post & responses to his post. I must admit, I'm doubtful about Matt Walker's data on sleep duration specially. Even though he addressed some of the concerns, he didn't talk about data manipulation, which is not cool.
And his statement on "the shorter your sleep, the shorter your lifespan" seems to be a correlation, not a causation.
I guess I might have been biased to believe Walker's research because I realized I personally do better on ~8 hours of sleep. But I'm not consistent with my sleep times (& duration at times too) which I wrote about and I think I feel fine for the most part except when I push my sleep time too late.
This makes me question some of the sleep data. But I still think that the protocols for improving sleep are effective for the most part. I am though a believer in people self-experimenting because health science is not a one size fits all model and we are too early in the studies to know a lot of the info or extrapolate from animal studies.
So people should discard what doesn't work for them and experiment!
I just went down a rabbit hole reading Guzey's post & responses to his post. I must admit, I'm doubtful about Matt Walker's data on sleep duration specially. Even though he addressed some of the concerns, he didn't talk about data manipulation, which is not cool.
And his statement on "the shorter your sleep, the shorter your lifespan" seems to be a correlation, not a causation.
I guess I might have been biased to believe Walker's research because I realized I personally do better on ~8 hours of sleep. But I'm not consistent with my sleep times (& duration at times too) which I wrote about and I think I feel fine for the most part except when I push my sleep time too late.
This makes me question some of the sleep data. But I still think that the protocols for improving sleep are effective for the most part. I am though a believer in people self-experimenting because health science is not a one size fits all model and we are too early in the studies to know a lot of the info or extrapolate from animal studies.
So people should discard what doesn't work for them and experiment!
Thanks again for pointing this out!