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Do you really need 8 hours of sleep?

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

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Sleep and Insomnia

Enslave people were deliberately worked to the point of and beyond the point of exhaustion as a way to ensure that when they were off labor, they didn't have a lot of energy left over. Sleep even became part of the labor campaign for an eight hour work day. Doctor carney says insomnia builds on itself. It's a cascade of damage to your sleep. People with insomnia stop going to bed and waking up at their usual times. And so it's kind of like their bed becomes pared with wakefulnesso where the bed used to be the place where you slept, now the bed is the place where i don't sleep. They try to address this spiral by getting your clock on

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