Sleep Unplugged with Dr. Chris Winter
Sleep Unplugged with Dr. Chris Winter
Chris Winter, MD
#222 - How Much Is A Night of Sleep Worth: Break It On Down
36 minutes Posted Sep 21, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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A courtroom, an insurance formula, and a supermarket receipt don't usually belong in the same sentence — but together they answer the question this episode is built around: what does a bad night's sleep actually cost, in dollars, tonight? Not the economy. You. We take the number everyone quotes and can't act on — sleep deprivation costs the U.S. $411 billion a year — and rebuild it from the ground up using the data that was actually measured on individuals, not GDP models. In this episode we ...