Synchronizing your body clock, with Prof Russell Foster
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How to Improve Your Quality of Sleep
Sleep is a lot more than just the body clock. There's also the factor of sleep pressure, the longer you've been awake,. And so the clock and this sleep pressure usually interact. Most individuals won't have a sleep problem at all. But most of us will be either anxious or stressed. That will interact with our abilities to sleep. It's always assumed that the perfect night of sleep is this eight hours of uninterrupted sleep. Some people as low as six hours, some people may need 10, 10 and 1-1-1. Maybe even 11 hours. We go through a cycle of a REM, non-REM sleep cycle. And we almost wake up every 70 to 90 minutes
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