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Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker)
Matthew Walker's 2017 bestseller on what sleep does for memory, emotion, immunity and metabolism, the two-process model, REM and deep sleep, his practical rules, and the criticisms of its more dramatic claims.
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Prereqs: Sleep basics. Next: Fixing your sleep; Alcohol, caffeine & the body. Sources: Matthew Walker, *Why We Sleep* (2017); Alexey Guzey, 'Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep is riddled with scientific and factual errors' (2019); AASM adult sleep guideline (7+ hours).Next: 1. The model