The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
if you are not getting sufficient sleep in the week before you get your flu shot and this is just another example of how sleep is critical for your immune system if you're not getting that sleep in the week before you get your flu shot you produce less than 50% of the normal antibody response therefore rendering that flu shot largely ineffective in terms of vaccinating you
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what was interesting in that immunization study they looked at around i think it was somewhere between you know 11 to 14 days after the flu shot and they just saw this you know catastrophic reduction in antibody response but then they did something smart they said well maybe it's just delayed maybe they do get to that level and it just takes them a little longer so sleep is just slowing the true peak of that antibody response but they kept assessing them you know 20 to 30 days later and they just still sought or nothing so it really did seem to be that it had just blunted it and you'd lost that chance and it wasn't coming back
She looked at the amount of sleep that you were getting in the week before you get your flu shot. And what she found is that if you're getting sort of less than five or six hours of sleep in the week before you get your flu shot, you only produce half of the normal antibody response, rendering that flu shot largely useless, which stuns me that, you know...
And it was tracking your sleep. And through an app, it would say, "Hey, you've had a great week of sleep this weekend in December," or "this week in November. Now is the time to come and get your flu shot. I've listed out three appointments. Just tap on the one that you want." Or it says, "Look, I know that you scheduled yourself for a flu shot. You haven't quite got the good sleep that you need this past week. Let's try again next week."
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