Happy Thursday, everybody.

Hope you guys are finishing up the week.

Doing well, hanging in there, doing your thing.

What a week it's been.

The news is never dull, never dry.

It's fascinating how it's really dynamic times these days.

It really is.

New study shows that the scent of your partner can improve your sleep efficiency.

I get that. It's very soothing. It's normalizing, especially that person's frequently sleeping over,

becomes a habit. People often ask, why do I not sleep well when there's someone new sleeping over?

Well, it's a natural, evolutionarily built-in protective mechanism. We're not supposed to be

able to sleep, which is when we're at a most vulnerable around what might be perceived as danger.

And if you're not familiar or comfortable with that individual or not a heavy sleeper,

often we register that there's a strange person next to us. And so people that infrequently have

someone sleep over because they're casually dating, it can be hard to to us. And so people that infrequently have someone sleep over

because they're casually dating, it can be hard to fall asleep. And that's when maybe you want to do

a little sleepy time tea, take a little bit of a sleep aid. But yeah, it needs familiarity. Then what

happens is while we sleep, some really powerful bonding chemicals can occur. And we get familiar and

comfortable with the body nearest next to us, maybe the sound of their sleeping, their smell.

But there's ways around that.

We learn this also with pets.

If a pet needs surgery, you can sometimes provide a T-shirt with your smell on it.

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