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#250 Why Sleep is the Most Important Pillar of Health with Professor Matthew Walker (Re-Release)

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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How to Get a Good Night of Sleep

Many people use alcohol as a sleep aid, and it is anything but an assistant to sleep. Sedation is not sleep oler different a. So what you're doing when you have a nightcap or you use alcohol to try and get to sleep - you're just knocking your qortex out. Alcohol is bad at fragmenting your sleep, produces poor quality. The final thing alcohol is good at does is blocking your dream sleep,. Rem sleep is critical for emotional first aid. And alcohol will block that ream sleep quite viciously. Those would be the five tips, i think, for better sleep. Matthew, thanks.

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