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This One Habit Is Slowly Killing You — And You Do It Every Night
It’s not what you eat — it’s how you sleep.
It’s something we do night after night.
Dimming the lights, having a last check on our phones, and blacking out the lights, usually after checking out Instagram or watching a few episodes of a show until the eyes burn.
Surely, such assumptions must seem at least a bit virtuous.
But what if I told you that sleep, that most elementary act of repose, could be slowly killing you?
Not from sleeping too much. From sleeping incorrectly. Even worse, you probably don’t even know it.
As published in the book Why We Sleep by the neuroscientist and sleep researcher Dr. Matthew Walker, two-thirds of adults in developed nations do not achieve the required 8 hours of sleep.
This is no mere statistic: sleep deprivation consequences are so dire that the World Health Organization has now declared it a global epidemic.
Meanwhile, in the face of carb overload, cholesterol hail, and CrossFit panics, we neglect the real killer: sleep deprivation.
