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Using Play to Rewire & Improve Your Brain

Huberman Lab

Sleep and Wakefulness Are in Homeostatic Balance

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In general, sleep and wakefulness are in homeostatic balance. If you don't drink any fluids for a while, you tend to get more thirsty. You drink fluids and your thirst tends to diminish. Likewise with food, likewise with most all motivated behaviors. One of the most important discoveries of the last century was largely the work of a guy named jak pengsep who really pioneered this understanding of the biology of play.

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