#43 - In A Deep, Deep Sleep: Where Do You Go For Deeper Sleep?
Update: 2023-04-17
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Everyone wants slow wave sleep, commonly referred to as deep sleep. It's the sleep of youthfulness. It's the sleep of performance. It's the sleep of recovery. It's the sleep through which growth hormone flows. Lots of things promise a deeper sleep, but what really delivers? In this episode we will:
- Revisit the reasons deep sleep is so important for optimal health
- Examine the research behind exercise and deep sleep
- Explore the links between mindfulness and meditation and sleep
- Determine if hydration plays a role in slow wave sleep enhancement
- Look at the surprising link between lavender and deep sleep
- Understand the role temperature plays in this process and why exercise my actually be utilizing body temperature as a pathway for its enhancement of deep sleep
- Untangle the complicated research looking at alcohol and its role as both an enhancement and degrader of deep sleep
Produced by: Maeve Winter
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Thanks for listening and sleep well!
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