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It's Okay To Sleep Late (But Do It For Your Immune System)

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🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Syed Moin Hassan was riled up. "I don't know who needs to hear this," he posted on Twitter, "BUT YOU ARE NOT LAZY IF YOU ARE WAKING UP AT NOON." Hassan, who is the Sleep Medicine Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, speaks to Short Wave's Emily Kwong about de-stigmatizing sleeping in late, and why a good night's rest is so important for your immune system.

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0:00.0

You're listening to shortwave from NPR.

0:04.8

Hey everybody, Emily Quang here.

0:08.1

So obviously we're all focused on staying healthy right now.

0:12.4

And one of the most important things you can do for your body is to hit that pillow and

0:17.8

get a good night's sleep.

0:18.8

So I just woke up, I read a little bit about sleep, prepared myself for this interview,

0:23.3

had a cup of tea.

0:24.3

Now I'm here.

0:25.3

On a cup of tea you can do anything.

0:27.2

Yeah.

0:28.2

A person can do anything.

0:30.2

Moe and Hassan is a sleep medicine fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

0:36.2

For the whole year all you do is have sleep clinics and sleep studies.

0:40.9

So by the end you are in a unique position to address people who have sleep disorders

0:46.2

and to help people who have not been sleeping well.

0:49.4

And recently on Twitter he wanted to explain that a good night's sleep, you know the

0:54.0

kind where you feel restored and energized can happen at different times.

0:58.7

For different people.

1:00.3

So on March 1st you tweeted the following, I don't know who needs to hear this but you

1:05.0

are not lazy if you are waking up at noon, all caps.

1:08.8

Yes.

1:09.8

Moe and what compelled you to tweet this?

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