Matthew Walker popularises sleep science as active and vital to health
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Updated · South China Morning Post · May 2
Matthew Walker popularises sleep science as active and vital to health
12 articles · Updated · South China Morning Post · May 2
His 2017 bestseller Why We Sleep helped shift advice beyond a simple eight-hour target toward understanding deep sleep’s role in memory and brain waste clearance.
Research over the past decade has recast sleep as essential to learning, metabolic housekeeping and potentially reducing proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease.
That change also fuelled wider interest in sleep hygiene, bedtime regularity, dark cool bedrooms and trackers, while experts now commonly recommend seven to nine hours.
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