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From the Ted Talk by Matt Walker: Sleep is your superpower

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Now those genes that were switched off by a lack of sleep were geens associated with your inumme sytesm, so once again, you can see that immune deficiency. In contrast, those genes that were actually upregulated or increased by way of a lack of sleep, were genes associated with the promotion of tumors, genes associated with long-term cnrohic inflammation within the body, and genes associated with stress, and, as a consequence, cardiovascular disease. There is simply no aspect of your wellness that can retreat at the sign of sleep deprivation and get away ucnahtsed. It's rather like a broken wtaer pipe in your home. Sleep loss will leak down into every nook and cranny of your pyhiglosoy, even tampering with the very DNA nucleic alphabet that spells out your daily health narrative.

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Now those genes that were switched off by a lack of sleep were _____ associated with your ______ ______, so once again, you can see that immune deficiency. In contrast, those genes that were actually upregulated or increased by way of a lack of sleep, were genes associated with the promotion of tumors, genes associated with long-term _______ inflammation within the body, and genes associated with stress, and, as a consequence, cardiovascular disease. There is simply no aspect of your wellness that can retreat at the sign of sleep deprivation and get away _________. It's rather like a broken _____ pipe in your home. Sleep loss will leak down into every nook and cranny of your __________, even tampering with the very DNA nucleic alphabet that spells out your daily health narrative.

Solution


  1. system
  2. unscathed
  3. genes
  4. chronic
  5. immune
  6. water
  7. physiology

Original Text


Now those genes that were switched off by a lack of sleep were genes associated with your immune system, so once again, you can see that immune deficiency. In contrast, those genes that were actually upregulated or increased by way of a lack of sleep, were genes associated with the promotion of tumors, genes associated with long-term chronic inflammation within the body, and genes associated with stress, and, as a consequence, cardiovascular disease. There is simply no aspect of your wellness that can retreat at the sign of sleep deprivation and get away unscathed. It's rather like a broken water pipe in your home. Sleep loss will leak down into every nook and cranny of your physiology, even tampering with the very DNA nucleic alphabet that spells out your daily health narrative.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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sleep loss 5
sleep deprivation 4
natural killer 3
full night 2
heart attacks 2
immune system 2
cell activity 2
short sleep 2
shift work 2


Important Words


  1. alphabet
  2. aspect
  3. body
  4. broken
  5. cardiovascular
  6. chronic
  7. consequence
  8. contrast
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  10. daily
  11. deficiency
  12. deprivation
  13. disease
  14. dna
  15. genes
  16. health
  17. home
  18. immune
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  20. inflammation
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  22. leak
  23. loss
  24. narrative
  25. nook
  26. nucleic
  27. physiology
  28. pipe
  29. promotion
  30. retreat
  31. sign
  32. simply
  33. sleep
  34. spells
  35. stress
  36. switched
  37. system
  38. tampering
  39. tumors
  40. unscathed
  41. upregulated
  42. water
  43. wellness