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Do You F*cking Mind?

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

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.9915 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. 
I hope you enjoy and put these tips into practise. 


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Transcript

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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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