How to get a good night’s sleep in 2024
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🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Struggling to drift off? If your goal in the new year is to sleep better, neurologist and sleep expert Prof Guy Leschziner unlocks the mysteries of sleep and the impact of a good night’s rest on our overall health.
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Guest: Guy Leschziner, Professor of Neurology and Sleep Medicine, King's College London.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Links: ‘The Secret World of Sleep: Journeys Through the Nocturnal Mind’ by Guy Leschziner https://timesbookshop.co.uk/the-secret-world-of-sleep-9781471176388
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| 1:20.0 | As a little gift for 2024, we're bringing you an episode on what feels like a national |
| 1:26.6 | obsession. Not the weather, not the footy, but sleep and how we can get more of it. |
| 1:34.0 | Recent polls show that 89% of people in the UK |
| 1:38.0 | say their lives would be improved |
| 1:40.0 | if they could just sleep more. |
| 1:50.0 | But while we know that a lack of sleep is incredibly bad for your health, there's still a lot about what happens when you sleep that science doesn't fully understand. |
| 1:57.0 | The tools that we have to track sleep properly were not around in the 80s even. They certainly weren't around |
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