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The Best Sleep Podcast Ever: Everything You Need To Know About Sleeping Better, Hacking Sleep, Sleep Cycles, Insomnia, Sleep Apnea & More

Ben Greenfield Life

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The Importance of Targeted Memory Reactivation

Sleep deprivation therapy is a way to deal with like insomnia well usually if you have insomnia yeah they recommend to consolidate the time in bed. The classic study is that imagine you're doing some kind of cognitive assessment and so we're building this association between smell i'm trying to use sound in my technology because i think it's more adaptable. We replay that stimulus when you're in different stages of sleep at first i thought it would be best to do rem but the recent evidence is suggesting to do it in lighter stages of sleep  and then that association primes those neurons and you actually do better on that cognitive assessment the next day.

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