"After just one night of only four or five hours’ sleep," Walker tells The Guardian, "your natural killer cells—the ones that attack the cancer cells that appear in your body every day—drop by 70%." Sleep deprivation has such serious outcomes that "the World Health Organisation has classed any form of night-time shift work as a probable carcinogen."
^Matthew Walker, presumably the 70% drop is from work at his Berkeley lab
^Matthew Walker, presumably the 70% drop is from work at his Berkeley lab