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Ep56 - Matthew Walker: "Why Sleep Matters"

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How Do You Know When It's Time to Get Out of Bed?

When do you actually know that it's time to get out of bed? Without setting your alarm supposedly. When would you do that? So yes it's a great question. It's very difficult to figure that out just at the weekend because at the weekend what you're doing is trying to sleep off the debt that you created during the week. And this is why most people will often say to me well you know when I sleep late during the weekend sometimes I feel worse, it's almost like I've got a sleep hangover. You don't have an insomnia masquerading as insomnia you simply have a mismatch between when your biology wants to sleep and when you're trying to sleep. That

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