Ep56 - Matthew Walker: "Why Sleep Matters"
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REM Sleep Behavior Disorder - A New Biomarker for Parkinson's Disease
When you go into dream sleep which is rapid eye movement sleep the brain essentially paralyzes the body so the mind can dream safely. If you have REM sleep behavioral disorder it markedly increases your risk probability of Parkinson's disease we've been finding. Sleep seems to carry within it nested in its static of electrical brain waves at night. It seems to have lots of these health biomarkers that are disease risk protective or predictive. So there are things in your sleep that can foretell, that can forecast your disease risk 10 or 20 years ahead of time and this is a lot of work that we're doing right now at the sleep center. How can we use sleep as a new biomarker that is predicting
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