Inside John Mayer’s Private Concert to Benefit New Study Into Veteran Sleep: ‘Science Will Eventually Catch All of These Wounds’

John Mayer gathered a fortunate fewer radical into a Henson Recording Studios soundstage successful Hollywood connected Thursday nighttime (Sept. 18) successful hopes of bettering the lives of countless veterans.

Around 100 supporters and vets attended the backstage performance benefiting Mayer’s Heart and Armor Foundation for Veterans Health, which served arsenic the motorboat for a caller run to enactment University of California, San Francisco’s probe into the relation of slumber successful seasoned health.

“Heart and Armor is heavy scientific, but it is affectional and comprehensible arsenic well,” Mayer says of the instauration helium helped motorboat successful 2019 to enactment the wellness of veterans of war. “The humanity down the statistic is hard and touching. Science volition yet drawback each of these wounds – PTSD, insomnia, traumatic encephalon injuries. They don’t person to past forever. We person shown that we tin accelerate the bully enactment of immoderate of the champion minds connected world to beforehand healthcare for a procreation of veterans.”

Before his 11-song concert, Mayer joined a sheet of experts to sermon the value of slumber erstwhile it comes to seasoned wellness — with Heart and Armor saying 60% of vets conflict with slumber problems (three times the complaint for non-veterans) and that the fig jumps to 93% for vets who conflict with PTSD. Sleep struggles are besides linked to bosom disease, neurodegeneration and intelligence wellness challenges, according to Heart and Armor.

“Sleep is 1 of the astir captious issues impacting seasoned health,” said...