Hidden Brain

Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

People who slept fewer than six hours a night were 4.2 times more likely to catch a cold when exposed to the virus than those who slept more than seven hours. It didn't matter how old you were, your stress levels, whether you smoked, or any other factor the researchers could think of — sleep was the single most important factor in predicting susceptibility to the common cold.

Hidden Brain

Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

When people are worried about not sleeping, they often do things that make the problem worse. They go to bed earlier, they cancel social engagements, they nap during the day, and they lie in bed tossing and turning. All of this is completely understandable, but it profoundly disrupts the body's ability to consolidate sleep.

Hidden Brain

Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

People who slept less than six hours a night were 4.2 times more likely to catch a cold when exposed to the virus than those who slept more than seven hours. This was true even after the researchers controlled for other factors like stress, personality, and whether people smoked.

Hidden Brain

Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

People who sleep less than six hours a night are more likely to develop high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke. They're more likely to be overweight, to develop type 2 diabetes, and to experience depression. They're even more likely to die younger.

Hidden Brain

Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

Most people think of sleep problems as a nighttime issue. But Burnett says the seeds of a bad night's sleep are often sown during the day. The way we live our waking hours — how much light we get, how much we move, what we eat and drink, how we manage stress — all of these things shape what happens when we finally lie down and close our eyes.

Hidden Brain

Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

sleep researcher Chris Barnes says a chronic lack of good sleep can also affect how we make decisions and even what we value.

TED

I Thought I Was Lazy. Turns Out I Had a Sleep Disorder | Lindsay Scola | TED

We've been taught to push through exhaustion instead of asking about it. This isn't an epidemic of laziness. It's a failure of diagnosis.

TED Intersections

How Tech Will (and Won’t) Replace Your Doctor | TED Intersections

I think there's a problem when people have to look at their sleep tracker to figure out whether they feel well rested. You shouldn't have to like wake up like a how did I sleep last night? Like that should be something that people can get from kind of being in touch with their own bodies.

Code Switch

Freedom from fatness: Why GLP-1s go after Black bodies

Weight loss is not reparations. What we need is compassion and care and the understanding that people can be healthy at any size.

TED Radio Hour

Tracking what your body needs

When we kind of learn how to check back in with our bodies, right? And we don't have to rely on external cues to do that, right, that behavior is much more likely to stick.

TED Radio Hour

Tracking what your body needs

When we exercise, it rewets the sponge. But eventually, that sponge dries out if you get little to no movement the rest of your day.

Fresh Air

The “bullies of the tick world” are on the hunt

And all the way to some people I spoke to in Missouri and in Virginia, if they just walked by someone frying bacon in a pan, the fumes from that, they said, made their throats seize up.

Fresh Air

Tennis rivals Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova team up against cancer

And she ignored the symptoms because, like most women who are nurturers, they're caring about their kids and their husband and their family. They forget about themselves. And that's probably one of the messages I want to get out there. If you feel anything different at all slightly, you know, go get it tested.

Radiolab

Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms

For most of human history, people were infected with intestinal worms. The worms, in turn, evolved to modulate their hosts' immune responses — keeping inflammation in check so the host could survive and the worms could keep living inside them. The modern, wormy-free immune system, the hypothesis goes, never got that memo and remains primed to overreact.

Radiolab

Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms

For most of human history, people went about their daily lives with a worm or two (or fifty) in their guts. Only in the past century, with pharmaceuticals and sanitation practices, have we made significant strides towards deworming the whole of humanity. And that's typically been thought of as a good thing, because having too many worms in your body can–quite literally–suck the life out of you. But is it possible to have… too few worms?

Fresh Air

Humorist Annabelle Gurwitch faces stage 4 cancer, finds ‘unexpected joys’

I felt like it was a story I could understand. And it was a way I could feel kind towards myself. The language of battling and fighting made me also feel at war with my own body, which I don't find helpful.

Fresh Air

Comic Jeff Ross on roasting, loss and his epic bar mitzvah

I think we might be finding a direct connection from the kosher catering business to me getting colon cancer.

Prof G Markets

The Next Inflation Wave Is Already Here | Prof G Markets

People think old people need less sleep. We don't. We just don't sleep well and just walk around slightly tired all the time.

The Tim Ferriss Show

#856: Jim Collins — What to Make of a Life and How to Maximize Your Return on Luck

I really do feel that I have more energy. I had a lot of energy at 37. I had a lot of energy at 17. I have more energy at 67 when I wrote that, 68 now. I need less sleep. My clarity, if anything, I think is higher.