Dr. Gina Poe: How to Get Better Sleep and Boost Your Learning, Memory and Energy

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Are you getting the sleep you need? Do you wish you could improve your sleep, but you’re not sure how? Dr. Gina Poe is an accomplished researcher and trained neuroscientist with a PhD in basic sleep. Currently a professor at UCLA, Dr. Poe has been researching the functions of sleep for over 30 years and has authored nearly 200 publications on the topic. Today, Dr. Poe is here to answer your questions like, Why do you sleep? What is your brain doing as you sleep? What is REM sleep? What are sleep cycles? What are circadian rhythms? And perhaps most importantly, you’ll get 5 research-backed recommendations from Dr. Poe on how anyone, including you, can not only improve their sleep but also get a “perfect” night’s sleep, as defined by a neuroscientist. In this conversation, Dr. Poe discusses topics such as: What is the “perfect night's sleep”? How long are you supposed to sleep every night? What is a sleep cycle, and why should you care? What is N1 sleep? What is N2 sleep? What is N3 sleep? What is paradoxical sleep and how can you tell someone’s in that state? What REM sleep really is and how often we must be in it. The physiological and neurological difference between being awake and asleep. What a neurotransmitter is and how it changes composition when asleep. What the functions of our brain’s two hemispheres are. How sleep cleans the brain. The connection between sleep and neuroplasticity. The link between sleep and brain health. The scientific reason why they call it “falling” asleep. How sleep directly affects longevity and vitality. Why you don’t remember your dreams. How sleep impacts how we learn during the day. What happens to your body and brain when you close your eyes at night. The one phase of sleep you cannot miss. A neuroscientist's top 5 recommendations for better sleep. What the purpose of vasodilation is. Which hours of sleep are absolutely critical for memory processing. How many hours of sleep you really need for optimal functioning. Why a consistent bedtime is the start of the best sleep of your life. Follow Dr. Poe: Instagram: instagram.com/poe.gina Webpage: bri.ucla.edu/people/gina-poe-ph-d/ Watch the episodes on YouTube: https://bit.ly/45OWCNr My book! ‘High 5 Habit’, here: https://a.co/d/g1DQ8Pt Follow me: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QfG8bb The Mel Robbins Podcast Instagram: https://bit.ly/49bg4GP Linkedin: https://bit.ly/46Mh0QB TikTok: https://bit.ly/46Kpw2v Sign up for my newsletter: https://bit.ly/46PVnPs Want more resources? Go to my podcast page at melrobbins.com/podcast. Disclaimer

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0:00.0	Hey, it's your friend Mel and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast.
0:07.8	Today you and I are going to learn all about the science of sleep from one of the world's leading
0:13.2	neuroscientist and researchers. I'm talking about UCLA's Dr. Gina Poe and before I jump into her
0:18.7	credentials and everything that we're going to cover, I just want to thank you. Thank you for being
0:22.9	here because when you're here with me, I know it's not about me. It's about you. You listen because
0:28.9	you want to learn. You want to feel inspired and you're investing time in yourself right now.
0:33.3	And I don't take that lightly because I love you for being interested in improving your life.
0:39.0	I mean, that's why I'm here too. So I'm proud of both of us. And today,
0:43.8	we have a private class with one of the most renowned experts and researchers in the science of
0:50.4	sleep. Dr. Gina Poe is here. Now, Dr. Poe is a neuroscientist at UCLA. She's been studying the
0:57.0	science of sleep for 30 years. Her lab has done pioneering research right now. She's looking to
1:02.3	the connection of sleep and healing mental illness. Dr. Poe is going to cover the fundamentals today
1:08.4	and questions like, why do you sleep? What is your brain doing as you sleep? What is REM sleep?
1:14.6	What are sleep cycles and how many do you need? If you've been hearing about circadian rhythms,
1:19.2	she is going to break it down and explain what they are and why they matter. And you're going to
1:23.0	leave with five recommendations from Dr. Poe's extraordinary research. Recommendations on how
1:28.8	anyone, including you, can improve your sleep. And if you're sitting there thinking,
1:34.4	oh, mal, sleep, this sounds like a snooze fast. I think I'm going to skip this one. Don't you dare
1:41.7	because I thought I knew what I needed to know about sleep too. And then I started
1:46.1	preparing for this episode. I learned so many things that I didn't know, but you and I need to know
1:52.4	we should know. I'm talking profound, profound information about how sleep is critical for your
2:00.3	memory, for neuroplasticity, for locking in new habits, for creativity, for healing, for so much more.
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