405. The Neuroscience of sleep and its effects on mood, weight, memory and attention
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The ultimate SLEEP episode.
In this episode I dive into how sleep affects your moods, alerterness, weight gain or maintenance, memory, addictive behaviours and MORE.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my beautiful. |
| 0:11.7 | Hello, my beautiful beans and welcome to the ultimate episode on sleep, the effects of a good sleep and the effects of a bad sleep. |
| 0:21.4 | How to sleep better, how you can turn it around if you have shit sleep. |
| 0:25.6 | Everything sleep related. |
| 0:27.3 | I am so excited for this episode. |
| 0:29.2 | This is an episode that I released back in the day and I actually went through and was |
| 0:35.4 | kind of like I'm kind of organizing my episodes. |
| 0:37.9 | And I stumbled across this one and I thought, I'm going to listen to my own old episode. |
| 0:42.3 | And it is just honestly one of my favorites because I feel like there's so much information packed in here. |
| 0:48.5 | It talks about basically my aim for this episode is to change how you view and how you value sleep. |
| 0:58.1 | I want you, by the end of this episode, to look at sleep as the foundation of everything |
| 1:03.4 | that matters to you in this life. |
| 1:05.8 | So if that is the case, if this is the primary pillar, the primary foundation, then hopefully that would inspire |
| 1:12.9 | you to put in a lot more effort into your sleep quality, your sleep hygiene, the wind |
| 1:19.8 | down at the end of the day, and certain things that you can do throughout the day to improve |
| 1:23.9 | your sleep. People who have a lack of sleep and a history of poor sleep are more |
| 1:29.3 | likely to have addictive behaviours, poor memory, mood disorders, neurological illnesses, |
| 1:34.8 | degeneration, weight gain. There's so many things that change on a chemical level and on a |
| 1:41.3 | psychological level when your sleep is not intact. And if you're someone who's thinking, oh my God, I've got really, really bad sleep |
| 1:46.9 | and it's always been that bad, hopefully there's going to be some tools in here that you find |
| 1:53.2 | useful that you'll be able to start to put into practice to start to improve your sleep. |
| 1:57.9 | If you're someone that is going through a season in your life, like parenting or a |
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