Episode Summary
In this episode, Greg, Pak, and Milo take a deep dive in the research around sleep and health, from sleep duration to the latest data on sleep regularity and shift work.
Episode Notes
In this episode, Greg, Pak, and Milo take a deep dive in the research around sleep and health, from sleep duration to the latest data on sleep regularity and shift work.
00:00:00 – Intro & Plugs
00:20:48 – Sleep duration and all-cause mortality
00:42:58 – Sleep regularity and all-cause mortality
01:15:13 – Shift work & sleeping irregular hours
01:26:40 – Chronotypes & health
01:41:47 – The effect of sleep on weight regulation
02:23:24 – Practical takeaways
References:
- Sleep duration and risk of all-cause mortality: A flexible, non-linear, meta-regression of 40 prospective cohort studies
- Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration: A prospective cohort study
- Total and Cause-Specific Mortality of U.S. Nurses Working Rotating Night Shifts
- Associations between chronotype, morbidity and mortality in the UK Biobank cohort
- Chronotype and mortality – a 37-year follow-up study in Finnish adults
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