Neuroscientist Matthew Walker Destroys the Biggest Sleep Myths — From 5-Hour Nights to Melatonin Use

The LIVING Room Podcast | Inside The WNDR Lab · Aug 12, 2026 · 1h 51m · transcript

What if everything you're doing for your health — the diet, the exercise, the supplements — depends on something you may be overlooking every night?

Matthew Walker, PhD, neuroscientist, sleep expert, and professor of neuroscience and biomedical engineering at UT Dallas, founder of the Center for Human Sleep Science, and author of the New York Times bestseller Why We Sleep joins The LIVING Room Podcast to reveal why sleep is not the third pillar of health — it's the foundation on which everything else rests.

For decades, we've treated sleep as the thing we'll fix after we get our diet…