Sleep Immunity and The Corona Vaccine- Podcast

There are some people during the pandemic who will have been struggling with sleep and been getting less, and it's more difficult - and then others who are actually getting more.

...But I think what we're really seeing in this data is that people are starting to sleep more in harmony with what we call your chronotype.

...Well, perhaps when people return to work, what if we asked everyone to fill out a very brief set of questions and we asked them about their preferred sleep times - when they would prefer to wake up, when they would prefer to go to bed?

...And in that way they allow the employee to start sleeping in a much more compatible way with their biology, rather than in conflict, which is what many of us seem to do in this modern world.

...Researchers found that if you're not getting sufficient sleep in the week before you get your standard flu shot, you produce less than 50% of the normal antibody response, rendering that vaccination far less effective.

...Can we try to enhance immunity, enhance the effectiveness of that vaccination, simply by timing that vaccination with the moment when people are well rested. when they are best slept?