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Dr. Matt Walker: The Science & Practice of Perfecting Your Sleep

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Do You Need to Start at the Beginning of the Race?

Will your system leap into rapid eye movement sleep, or does it have to start at the beginning and get slow wave sleep first? Great question. There is some degree of reciprocity between the sleep states. When we drive one of those up, we often, but not always, see a change in the other. Some pharmacologis that have shown an independence to that. And sometimes you can, you know, nudge one and not seem to upset or perturb the other. But to your ar, i think, lovely point, the answer is, it's mostly the latter.

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