Sleep Hacking: How to Control Your Mitochondrial Clocks | Dave Asprey | Big Think

Sleep hacking: How to control your mitochondrial clocks. You can go a month without food, or three or four days without water, but try to go three or four days without sleep. “It’s at least as important as water. But you don’t see people going on water diets very often, but you do see people who just don’t get enough sleep all the time,” says Dave Asprey. Quality sleep is foundational to good health, helping to ward off diabetes, cancer and Alzheimer’s. It’s also a key strategy for anti-aging. Dave Asprey shares what he’s learned about sleep hacking: Don’t eat after the sun goes down, turn the lights down as much as you can after the sun goes down, and black out your room—you’ll need more than regular black-out curtains. Watch the video to find out why.