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What Your Bedtime Says About You with Professor Matt Walker

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

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The Importance of Sleep Supplements

Melatonin has cases where it works quite well for jet lag, sleep cycle issues. But once you're stable in a new time zone, melatonin is not the solution for most people's sleep problems. A meta-analysis found that melatonin only increased total amount of sleep by about 3.9 minutes. And then it only increased your sleep efficiency by 2.2%, which again, isn't much.

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