#357 BITESIZE | How to Master Your Sleep | Professor Russell Foster
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Dr Rangan Chatterjee
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The tired brain remembers negative experiences but forgets the positive ones. Is there a more powerful statement in favour of going to bed earlier and prioritising our sleep?
Feel Better Live More Bitesize is my weekly podcast for your mind, body, and heart. Each week I’ll be featuring inspirational stories and practical tips from some of my former guests.
Today’s clip is from episode 292 of the podcast Russell Foster, a Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford University.
In this clip, we discuss how lack of sleep can affect our health, and Russell shares some of his tips for better sleep.
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| 0:51.0 | Today's clip is from episode 292 of the podcast with Russell Foster, a professor of circadian |
| 0:58.3 | neuroscience at Oxford University. |
| 1:02.1 | In this clip, we discuss how a lack of sleep can affect our health and Russell shares some |
| 1:07.7 | of his top tips for better sleep. |
| 1:16.5 | How sleep deprived are we as a society and then secondly, what are those consequences? |
| 1:24.8 | Sleep deprivation varies a lot because of course sleep need varies a lot. |
| 1:32.4 | But I think on average people are saying that we're sleeping one maybe two hours less than |
| 1:38.5 | we were in the 1950s and I think those data are pretty robust and certainly that's the |
| 1:45.4 | case in adolescents big time. |
| 1:49.4 | So what are the consequences? |
| 1:51.1 | Well short term sleep loss, we see changes in our emotions and our cognitive performance. |
| 1:57.8 | So we increase levels of irritability, the failure to process information accurately, we do |
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