The Colin McEnroe Show features 3 guests who discuss sleep.

We become more impulsive, less mentally agile, and we make more mistakes. Long term, lack of sleep (six hours or less per night) can mess with mood, hormones, immune systems, and increase our risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. 

There’s lots of reasons we can’t control that keep us up too late, such as crying babies and shift work. But there’s lots of reasons we can control, like how much caffeine we consume and whether we take our phone to bed.

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