The book is called, “Why We Sleep” written by Matthew Walker, Ph.D.
After learning more about sleep, I now believe “lack of sleep” is behind most ill health, from common cold to cancer. I cringe that many of us sabotage deep sleep cycles by caffeine and alcohol (and sleeping pills) on a regular basis.
Here are some shocking stats:
“After being awake for 19 hours, people who were sleep-deprived risk being cognitively impaired as those were legally drunk.”
“This coming week, more than 2 million people in the US will fall asleep while driving their motor vehicle. That’s more than 250 thousand every day.”
Operating on less than five hours of sleep, your risk of a car crash increases threefold. Get behind the wheel of a car when having slept just four hours or less the night before and you are 11.5 times more likely to be involved in a car accident. Note how the relationship between decreasing hours of sleep and increasing mortality risk of an accident is not linear, but instead exponentially mushrooms.
Ooof, Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
Seems like his PhD credentials are hard to verify, too, hmmm....
Well, that's one less book on my already-too-long reading list :)
See discussion of this essay on the forum, Hacker News (a), Marginal Revolution (a), Andrew Gelman’s blog 1 (a), 2 (a), 3 (a), 4 (a), /r/slatestarcodex (a), Twitter (a), listen to BBC interviewing me and Walker himself about it or listen to my interview with Smart People Podcast discussing it. Note: I link to a bunch of paywalled studies in this essay. Please do not use sci-hub to access them for free and do not use this trick (a) to easily redirect papers to sci-hub. For the clearest …
最近在读 #WhyWeSleep ，深刻感叹工作日能没压力地睡到自然醒是个巨大的 privilege。万万没想到一个健康科学书被我读成了转码鸡娃（？
作为一个老司机（……），自认为应很清楚疲劳驾驶的危害了，但是偶尔还是会睡四个小时就去开车。今天听 #WhyWeSleep 里的 sleep deprived 实验结果发现一定程度（which 我出去玩经常达到）的疲劳驾驶对人的影响跟醉酒驾驶相当了甚至更致命 
以前运气好饶我狗命但是把朋友和路人们 put in danger 了！我以后再也不逞强了！ 
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