Sleep Is the New Status Symbol
Found on New York Times on Monday, 10 April 2017
For years, studies upon studies have shown how bad sleep weakens the immune system, impairs learning and memory, contributes to depression and other mood and mental disorders, as well as obesity, diabetes, cancer and an early death.
We’ve lost the simplicity of sleep. All this writing, all these websites, all this stuff. I’m thinking, Just sleep. I want to say: ‘Shh. Make it dark, quiet and cool. Take a bath.’”
People are too focused on tracking and monitoring every aspect of their lives; how many steps they move, how much food they eat, how long they sleep and so on. It would be much more efficient, cheaper and better to just return to the basics and listen to what your body tells you it needs.