This is optimal living daily episode 3177 and I'm Justin Mollick.

Welcome back to a Sunday bonus episode where I give you a little extra content from a podcast in our

network that I think will also help you live a life that's a bit more

meaningful and happier. And this episode is coming from Optimal Health Daily. I could use some

health. I've been sick this week. And this one's an interesting Q&A episode that I thought would be a good

fit here. By the way if you send in a question to that show I'll visit the post office

and physically mail you a copy of our hardcover optimal living daily workbook if you're in the US.

If you're outside the US I'll send you a PDF version.

You can email a health-related question to health at old podcast.com.

And with that here's my brother Dr. Neal with the Q&A episode as we optimize your life. Today's question came via email.

Debbie writes, hi Dr. Neil, love your show.

My question is, is it harmful to your ears to listen to podcasts? your sleep more soundly listening to either movies or podcasts as a form of white noise

while we sleep but we use headphones because we like different shows.

We're not using wireless headphones and we turn our phones face down to

eliminate the light.

I often dream while doing this, so I assume I'm going through all the sleep cycles.

Thanks, your input would be appreciated.

Thank you so much for taking the time to send in your question Debbie and I'm so glad that you enjoy the show. Thank you so much for listening.

Oh, and I'm hoping that you don't fall asleep while listening to this podcast of course. Now whatever I respond to

listeners questions I try and find published studies based on that topic that way

whatever I share is not just my opinion or anecdotal evidence, but instead based on actual research.

Well, when I tried to find published studies on this topic, they were actually really difficult to find.

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