Welcome to the Shillux in Conversation podcast with me, Charlotte Collins.

This week we're going to be talking about sleep, because if there's one topic

consistently making the headlines in the wellness world, it's sleep or our lack of it.

Getting through the days in just a few hours

sleep used to be seen as a bit of a badge of honour, but with recent studies linking sleep

deprivation to everything from diabetes to depression, we all want to know how to get more sleep.

So whether you take ages to fall asleep or wake in the early hours with insomnia,

millions of us are struggling to get that good night's sleep. So I am hugely

excited to be joined by Dr. Katharina Lidela and Dr. Guy Meadows, both sleep experts from the

renowned sleep school, who are going to be answering your sleep questions from the signs you

could do with more sleep, what effect your sleep patterns, and ultimately how to go to sleep

and stay asleep. I feel like I've said

sleep many, many times in the last few minutes. Welcome, Kat and Guy. I mean, it's the hot

topic. It's such a hot topic, isn't it? It is. And it's been a hot topic for a decade. And that's

a good thing because we definitely need more sleep. Is our sleep getting worse?

Good question.

I think for some people it definitely is.

And interestingly, for some people, it may get a little better.

So it's a mixed bag.

I would add on to that as well, that obviously we're recording this, you know, as we've been going through a global pandemic.

And actually, Sleep school did some research

at the beginning this year, which showed that 49% of the UK population were experiencing

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