With the caveat that, to a man with a hammer everything, everything looks like a nail, I cannot recommend enough episodes 47, 48, and 49 from the Peter Attia, MD podcast. This three-part series with Matthew Walker, professor of neuroscience at UC Berkeley, emphasizes the importance of sleep for health and longevity. I do not listen to this podcast on a regular basis, so I cannot recommend it generally or vouch for Dr. Attia. But this series was a massive wake-up call to me on the (short and, importantly, long-term!) ill effects of sleep deprivation. Here’s the link to the first episode: During my time in the Marine Corps I developed a very unhealthy relationship with sleep. In fact, there were a handful of times I’d be so sleep-deprived that I would, and I mean this, hallucinate. Sitting in some Humvee or looking over some map, I would start tasting a specific pizza from Minnesota that I particularly like. “Power Through It” became my motto. And I’ve never really dropped that motto. “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” is something I’ve said many times in my life to many different people. If I had to guess, I’d say that I now…Continue reading Sleep when you’re dead?