Are you looking for that special edge over your competitors, or even over everyone in general?

You may have heard that getting better sleep will sharpen your mind, strengthen your body, boost your immune system, and all kinds of things.

You might decide to turn to TikTok to find out how the influencers are recommending

you can achieve this. And if you do, you're likely to find out that all you have to do is

embrace a huge laundry list of crazy sounding practices called sleep maxing. And in our extended content for premium members,

a quick primer on the one sleep intervention best proven to work for real.

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A skeptics guide to sleep maxing.

Welcome to the show that separates fact from fiction, science from pseudoscience, real history

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decisions by knowing what's real and what's not.

If you are one who eagerly follows wellness influencers on TikTok, you have no doubt heard

of the fad of sleep maxing, spelled with two X's because why not, a way to hack your sleeping and thus derive

a vast array of health benefits, which the rest of us are denied. Ordinary sleeping, we're told,

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