You are probably not getting enough sleep, and it is killing you
Rocker Warren Zevon is often credited with coining the mantra that’s been embraced by everyone from partying college kids to early-morning exercise evangelists: “You can sleep when you’re dead.” Or as Bon Jovi put it, “Gonna live while I'm alive, I'll sleep when I'm dead.” It’s an intoxicating thought, but the truth is that not getting enough sleep is literally killing us. That’s what neuroscientist Matthew Walker, who directs the sleep and neuroimaging lab at UC Berkeley, says in his book, ‘Why We Sleep,’ which was published in October 2017.
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