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Dr. Gina Poe: Use Sleep to Enhance Learning, Memory & Emotional State

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Is Alcohol a REM Sleep Suppressant?

Alcohol is a REM sleep suppressant and it even suppresses some of that stage two transition to REM with those sleep spindles. Until we've metabolized alcohol and put it out of our bodies, it will affect our sleep badly. We can change our minds best during the second and third 90 minute blocks of sleep. Those are the times in sleep when the most creativity can happen.

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