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The Science of Sleep and How to Improve it, With Devin Burke

The Paul Taylor Podcast | Expert in Hardiness and Mental Fitness

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The Role of Temperature in Sleep

A Dutch study showed that alcohol and marijuana inhibit REM sleep, which is the only time in a person's life when their brain blocks stress hormone adrenaline. The body needs to drop two to three degrees Fahrenheit for sleep to actually happen. "I think we need to talk about two other drugs, which are used quite a lot," he says.

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