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Dec 2021
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The "Sleep Loss Epidemic"

AUBREY GORDON & MICHAEL HOBBES
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Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" was one of the most popular and acclaimed wellness books of 2017. There's just one problem: Much of it isn't true. 

Thanks to University of Ottawa Postdoctoral Fellow Dylan Smith for helping us with the research!

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