Essentials: The Science & Practice of Perfecting Your Sleep
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Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials, where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance. And now my discussion with Dr. Matt Walker. Let's start off very basic. What is sleep?
Sleep is probably the single most effective thing you can do to reset your brain and body health. Sleep as a process, though, is an incredibly complex physiological ballet. Sleep is broadly separated into these two main types, and we've got non-rapid eye movement sleep on the one hand, and then we've got rapid eye movement sleep on the other. When you go into REM sleep, you are completely
completely paralyzed. You are locked into a physical incarceration of your own body. Amazing. The brain paralyzes the body so that the mind can dream safely. Because think about how quickly we would have all been popped out of the gene pool.
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