Exercise really helps boost the amplitude of our slow waves.

We don't know exactly why.

I mean, that's got to be the number one thing for brain health.

Yes.

Exercise is really good.

Cleaning the brain is really, really important to prevent neurodogenic diseases.

As we get older and older, the amplitude of our slow waves gets smaller and smaller, unfortunately.

But exercise can help reverse that.

Dr. Gina Poe. Hello, Dr. Holmes. I'm just beyond thrilled to have you here today. I've just

been such an admirer of your work. And I just look back on all the work that you've done,

you know, looking at, you know, memory and learning and,

you know, kind of digging into REM in a way that has really transformed our understanding of

that stage of sleep and its role. And when we look at how your work has evolved our

understanding of memory difficulties and PTSD and schizophrenia and Alzheimer's. And it's really

just a Herculean kind of level of contribution. So thank you.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it. When did you become, you know, interested in sleep?

Yeah, that's a great question. My mother was always a very regular, normal, good sleeper. And my father

felt like it was a waste of time. And so he did as little of it as possible. And that was to his detriment, really.

You know, he wanted to spend more time working.

He was a very hard worker.

But, you know, there's so FOMO. I never want to fall

asleep because I want to do, I want to see, I want to read. So I deprived myself of sleep a lot

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