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SLEEP TO WIN | Improving Our Lives Through Quality Sleep | Dr. Kirk Parsley

15 Aug 2017 · 1 min

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Excerpt from a YouTube interview (SLEEP TO WIN) with Dr. Kirk Parsley arguing that cultural attitudes treat sleep as weakness or luxury and that chronic sleep deprivation severely harms health and performance — claiming it 'takes about 16 years off your life', increases risk for many diseases, and numbs one to their environment, degrading ability to enjoy life and perform.

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Wellness force Radio episode 125 with Dr. Kirk Parsley. Social programming has convinced us that sleep is a form of weakness. It's a form of laziness. It's a luxury. Chronic sleep deprivation takes about 16 years off your life. I mean, there's very few things that take 16 years off your life. Increases your risk for every disease, every kind of problem. To me, I think more importantly is what we talked about earlier is, like, it numbs you to your environment. It decreases the whole purpose of being here. Like, to me, this is all about squeezing as much joy out of life as I can possibly get. Performance is, you know, seriously degraded if you're physiologically broken. And the fastest way to physiologically break yourself is sleep deprivation.