Name: Why Some People Can Sleep Only 2 Hours a Night
Uploaded: 2023-10-26T17:38:36.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Some People Can Sleep Only 2 Hours a Night' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Some People Can Sleep Only 2 Hours a Night' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-26. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- I'm drawing a blank on a term,
but what is it called when your body
sets its time for the day from the sun?
- Circadian rhythm.
- Yeah, circadian rhythm.
- Yeah.
- Supposed to be great for that.
So it benefits your sleep a lot, right?
To get sunlight early in the morning.
- Yeah, supposedly.
- 'Cause it sets your body's clock, your mind's clock.
- I've never had a problem with sleep.
- Yeah, I mean either.
- Luckily, I'm just one of those guys.
- That suck.
- Suck.
- Yeah, I have friends that really struggle with sleep.
- My wife struggles with sleep.
I can go to sleep on a fucking train station floor.
- Yeah, I don't get it at all.
And I'm not super empathetic about it too,
'cause sometimes like my wife will be up
like doing something in the middle of the night
and she's like, "She can't sleep."
And I'm like, "What are you doing?"
Like, "Go back to sleep."
She's like, "Don't you think I want to?"
- Yeah, some people just can't sleep.
Well, Jocko only sleeps like four hours a night.
- Dude, that's not good for you.
- He says he doesn't need anymore.
- Yeah, but his brain does.
- I don't know, I don't know.
- Maybe not like for functioning right now,
but like long term, like you asked
Andrew Huberman and that's one of the things
you could do to like help your brain function
as long as possible.
And like with Alzheimer's and all kinds of brain issues,
like long term, sleep is a major factor.
- Yeah, it's a major factor if they look at the correlation
between like the amount of hours you sleep
and the instances of Alzheimer's.
It seems to be some sort of a connection.
- Yeah, huge.
- Yeah, I don't know.
Jocko's a different kind of animal though.
- Hmm.
- Maybe.
- He definitely seems built different.
- Yeah, maybe he just doesn't need it.
I think there's certain people,
I think Arnold is one of those people too,
Schwarzenegger.
I think he said he only sleeps a few hours a night.
- Yeah.
- I think there's certain people that just like,
they have just different requirements.
There are people that like physically don't need as much sleep.
Like everybody needs some sleep,
but I think there are people, I'm not one of them.
I can notice the difference between six and eight hours.
I know it's a big difference.
Six hours, I'm like, oh, I gotta push.
It's an extra push.
Whereas eight hours, good to go.
- Yeah.
I sleep six or seven hours a night.
But I feel like everybody's different.
There must be outliers.
To only sleep four hours a night and function well,
it must not affect your hormones as much as most people.
Because I feel like most people,
if you sleep four hours a night,
it's terrible for your hormones.
- It really depends.
- It causes a crazy crash in your hormones.
- I think it really depends on what you're doing.
Like for some people, like if you're only sleeping four hours,
but your job is very engaging and very intense
and a lot of adrenaline, you're fired up.
Like at the end of that day,
you're probably going to crash hard,
but you might be able to pull it off and keep going.
But if you have like some fucking paperwork job
and you only slept like four hours,
you're going to be yawning and falling asleep.
You're going to be barely able to get through it.
- Or even this job,
there's like the brain function aspect, you know?
- Oh, here it is, huge.
- After 10 years search,
scientists find second short sleep gene.
After a decade of searching,
UC San Francisco scientists who identified the only human gene
known to produce natural short sleep,
lifelong nightly sleep that lasts just four to six hours,
yet leaves individuals feeling fully rested,
have discovered a second.
It says before we identified the first short sleep gene,
people really, excuse me,
really weren't thinking about sleep duration
in genetic terms, said Ying-Hue Fu,
PhD Professor of Neurology
and member of the UCSF Whale Institute for Neurosciences.
Fu led the research teams that discovered both short sleep genes,
the newest of which is described in a paper published
August 28, 2019, the Journal of Neuron.
According to Fu, many scientists once thought that certain sleep
behaviors couldn't be studied genetically.
Sleep can be difficult to study using the tools of human genetics
because people use alarms, coffee, and pills to alter their natural sleep
cycles, she said.
These sleep disruptions, the thinking went, made it difficult for researchers
to distinguish
between people who naturally sleep for less than six hours and those who do so
only with the aid of an artificial stimulant. And natural short sleepers
remained a mystery until 2009 when a study conducted by Fu's team discovered
that people who had inherited a particular mutation in a gene called DEC2
average only 6.25 hours of sleep per night. Study participants lacking the
mutation averaged 8.06 hours. The finding provided the first conclusive
evidence that natural short sleep is, at least in some cases, the first conclusive
evidence that natural short sleep is, at least in some cases, the first conclusive
evidence of the mutation, the first conclusive evidence of the gene.
In some cases, genetic. But this mutation is rare. So while it helped explain
some natural short sleepers, it couldn't account for all of them. Interesting.
Yeah, that is interesting.
Yeah, that is interesting.
I think Jocko's just an animal.
Yeah, just must vary.
I think he likes being tired. I think he likes waking up tired and then pushing
through it.
He's probably so used to suffering on a daily that that just becomes his
baseline. If he's not suffering, he probably doesn't feel right.
Yeah.
Right?
Well, how many fucking, go to his Instagram. How many photos are there of his
watch?
Yeah.
At 4:30 in the morning.
He's got the worst but best, best Instagram but the worst Instagram.
Yeah.
You're just like another watch photo. But you know he's getting after it.