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The Science of Sleep (Dr. Matthew Walker)

3 Things (with Ric Elias)

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What Is Deep Sleep?

Deep sleep is perhaps one of the very best forms of blood pressure medication that you could ever wish for. It allows for long transfer of information across vast distances within the brain. When we go into deep sleep, upstairs in the brain, it's erupting with these brain waves. Downstairs in the body, we shift over to a quiescent, passive branch of the nervous system called the para sympathetic nervous system. And this non fight or flight state also releases the break on what's called the vegal system, the vagus nerve. So two things happen as a result: your body can start to restock the immune system so you wake up as a more resilient organism than when you

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