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hey life kit listeners I I'm Claire Marie Schneider, a producer for this show. And today we have

launched a special new series. It is called Life Kit's Guide to Better Sleep.

It's a newsletter project that we've been working on for the last couple of months.

If you sign up, you will receive a series of emails over one week with lots of tips that you can try that very night to prioritize and improve your sleep. You can sign up by going to

NPR.org slash sleep week. You can also find the link in our episode description.

Again the way to sign up is by going to NPR.org

slash Sleep Week. I hope you sign up, and of course, I hope you sleep well tonight.

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How you sleep in these days? You getting 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

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