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143: Dr David Cunnington (MD) - Sleep Specialist, Melbourne Sleep Disorders Centre

The Physical Performance Show

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The Role of Temperature and Lighting in Sleep

As long as there is some time off getting stuff done, that's the time that the brain is going to gradually wind down and then be ready for sleeping. We don't need a perfect sleep environment for sleeping again. You think back to us being biological, being sleeping on the ground in a cave with a fire in the open air. That's how human beings biologically are designed to sleep. Not on a $10,000 mattress with blackout blinds and sound insulated,. sort of noise proofing around the bedroom otherwise you'll ruin my sleep. It's not biologically how we're geared up to sleep.

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