Ask Me Anything Part 25: Sleep Talking, Long Covid, CBD/CBN, and Bedroom Environment

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Dr. Matt Walker

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🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Matt and Dr. Eti Ben Simon begin their latest AMA by exploring somniloquy as fragmented noise within Stage 2 NREM sleep. They distinguish these vocalizations from REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, where the brain’s paralysis mechanism fails. The pair also examines how Long Covid triggers chronic sleep fragmentation in half of all patients. This disruption is tethered to systemic inflammation and elevated C-reactive protein. The hosts find sparse evidence for CBD and CBN, noting a pattern of pharma...

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0:00.0	Hi there, it's Matt here and welcome back to the podcast and welcome back to another of our AMA
0:08.2	episodes, Ask Me Anything episodes.
0:10.1	I am joined as always by the scintillating, the stupendous, the super smart as ever sleep, savvy,
0:17.9	Dr. Etty, Ben, Simone, Etty, welcome back.
0:20.4	Hey, Matt. Okay, Eti, welcome back. Hey, Matt.
0:21.8	Okay, next question.
0:23.7	Next question is about sleep talking, which has a Latin name that I'm going to try and
0:30.9	pronounce somniloquai or some niloquit.
0:35.5	Someniloquit.
0:36.1	Right, Matt?
0:36.8	Correct.
0:40.2	Somnus from the Latin derivative of sleep.
0:45.1	And liquee is to speak in terms of its Latin roots.
0:47.5	Oh, so literally sleep talking.
0:48.6	Literally sleep.
0:50.0	Well, yes, sleep speaking.
0:50.6	Yeah.
0:51.8	Sleep speaking.
0:55.6	The question is, what does the neuroscience reveal about sleep talking?
0:57.8	What does it tell us about sleep stages?
0:59.9	Should we be concerned about it?
1:03.9	And how does it different from other parosomnias or sleep disorders?
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