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From the Ted Talk by Matt Walker: How sleep can improve your immunity

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So in one study, they took a group of inldvuiiads and they limited them to four hours of sleep a night for six nights. And in the other gourp, they gave them a full night of sleep each and every one of those nights. And then during that time peirod, they gave them a flu shot and they measured the response to that flu shot. What they discovered is that in those individuals who were sleeping just four hours a nhgit, they went on to produce less than 50 pnercet of the normal aitodnby response. So in other words, if you're not getting suifcnfeit sleep in the week or the days before you get your flu shot, it may render that vaccination far less effective as a consequence.

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So in one study, they took a group of ___________ and they limited them to four hours of sleep a night for six nights. And in the other _____, they gave them a full night of sleep each and every one of those nights. And then during that time ______, they gave them a flu shot and they measured the response to that flu shot. What they discovered is that in those individuals who were sleeping just four hours a _____, they went on to produce less than 50 _______ of the normal ________ response. So in other words, if you're not getting __________ sleep in the week or the days before you get your flu shot, it may render that vaccination far less effective as a consequence.

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So in one study, they took a group of individuals and they limited them to four hours of sleep a night for six nights. And in the other group, they gave them a full night of sleep each and every one of those nights. And then during that time period, they gave them a flu shot and they measured the response to that flu shot. What they discovered is that in those individuals who were sleeping just four hours a night, they went on to produce less than 50 percent of the normal antibody response. So in other words, if you're not getting sufficient sleep in the week or the days before you get your flu shot, it may render that vaccination far less effective as a consequence.

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