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How are you sleeping these days?

You get enough shut-eye?

Yeah, I mean, I guess we could all be sleeping a little better, right?

I feel like I do it to myself.

I know you're not

supposed to read the phone in bed. It's just so hard. I mean, sleep has a huge impact on our health.

It helps our brains function. It supports our immune system. Protects against heart disease and

diabetes. And without it, we would die. Though for something so important, we're never formally taught how to do it right.

In America, you learn about, you know, nutrition or sex ed in school growing up, but really

never about sleep.

And so a lot of the information that we have and the knowledge that we have is passed down

through our parents, for our caregivers, and it might not be evidence-based.

Rebecca Robbins is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a sleep

scientist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. She and some colleagues have published

research on common sleep myths, and there are a lot of them. On this episode of Life Kit, we'll walk through

some of those myths and give you tips on how to get better sleep.

Okay, Rebecca, let's get into some of the myths. One that stuck out to us is that it doesn't matter what time of day you sleep.

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