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559: Fix Your Sleep with Russell Foster

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I Don't Sleep Well and Mental Health

Lucas: I want to talk about mental health because you mentioned this idea of having a warning label on shift work. There's an overlap in the mental circuits sorry the circuits in the brain and if there's a change in one neurotransmitter let's say dopamine that predisposes you to a mental health issue it's going to have an effect upon sleep at some level. We can now think ofSleep as very valuable not only as a predictor of perhaps a crisis whether it's depression be or bipolar but also as a target to reduce the effects and therefore reduce the severity of the condition.

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