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How to sleep well, reducing cravings and matcha versus coffee with Russell Foster

The Wellness Scoop

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Do Not Sleep and Its Impact on Your Immune System?

If we are not getting the sleep that we need, and it's the sleep is mis alined with what we need to do, then we activate the stress axis. The classic example of this would be nightshift workers. High levels of cartesal will suppress the immune system which is probably the mechanism why people who are chronically tired have higher rates of infection. And that's probably also the vulnerability to increase rates of cancer. If we eat the same amount of food either in the morning or in the evening, our ability to get rid of glucosins appropriately is much more effective than if they were eaten in the evening. We really take them for granted, don't we? One last

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