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Hey everybody, Emily Quang here. So obviously we're all focused on staying healthy right now.

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

and get a good night's sleep. So I just woke up. I read a little bit of a sleep, prepared

myself for this interview. Had a cup of tea. Now I'm here. On a cup of tea, you can do anything.

Yeah. A person can do anything.

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

For the whole year, all you do is have sleep clinics and sleep studies. So by the end,

you are in a unique position to address people who have sleep disorders and to help people who have

not been sleeping well. And recently on Twitter, he wanted to explain that a good night's sleep,

you know, the kind where you feel restored and energized can happen at different times for different

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

not lazy if you are waking up at noon. All caps. Yes. Moin, what compelled you to tweet this?

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