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Ep171 - Matthew Walker | Sleep in Uncertain Times

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The Health Benefits of Kafine

Many people, when ther struggling with sleep, will turn to alcohol when over the counter remedies. Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call the sedatives. And unfortunately, sedation is not sleep. The second problem with alcohol is that it fragments your sleep. It's one of the most potent blockers of your rem sleep. But rem sleep is the most powerful predictor of all stages of sleep in terms of your mortality. Is very linear. So i'm just a scientist, and am not here to tell any one how to live their life. That's not my job. All i want to do is gift you with the science of sleep, so that then you are empowered o make whatever

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