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"It's really interesting -- they do studies where they give people a hepatitis-A vaccination, and then sleep-deprive them for one night, and then three weeks later when the antibody production has peaked, those people only have half as much antibody to the hepatitis as the controls. They take college students, and they reduce their sleep to four hours a night for five days and then give them a glucose tolerance test, and they look diabetic. It's an incredibly important part of our lives. So what do we have? We've got memory, we've got immune function, we've got endocrine function: if you don't get enough sleep, you're going to end up fat, sick, and stupid!" -- Dr. Robert Stickgold, head of Harvard's Center for Sleep and Cognition, on the NPR program You're The Expert (WBUR, Boston), 2015-01-08 (emphasis in text reflects what I hear in= the audio)