Ep171 - Matthew Walker | Sleep in Uncertain Times
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Sleep and Mental Health
In the past 20 years of study, i have not been able to discover a single major psychiatric condition in which sleep is normal. We know that individuals who are highly anxious typically have worse total sleep time. They wake up more throughout the night and they also have less deep quality sleep. But when we gave those people a full, healthy night of sleep, the amount of overnight reduction in their anxiety was predicted by how much deep sleep they were getting. This thing called a night of sleep is right there for you in reat prescription every single night if you wish to pick it up. And it is one of the most powerful, what we call an angiolytic, a sort of medications
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