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Food, We Need To Talk

Sleep Divorce, Melatonin, Watching TV Before Bed and More

Food, We Need To Talk

Juna Gjata

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Today, we continue our conversation with Professor Frank Scher from Harvard University. This episode, we focused on your questions! Should you consider sleep divorcing your partner? Is it okay to take melatonin for a long time? What about watching TV before bed? And the most important question of all, at conferences, do the sleep scientists party?! Find out in today's episode!

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another episode of the talk.

0:04.0

Today we are back with Frank Shear and we're talking all about sleep and we have all of you guys' questions about sleep.

0:10.0

So our first question is about sleep divorce Eddie do you want to read it?

0:14.0

I don't have to read it.

0:16.0

Okay.

0:17.0

Eddie knows all about this.

0:19.0

I'll read the question from one of our listeners sleep divorce I told my husband in our

0:25.3

next home I'm getting my own room our sleep habits are so very different and I sleep

0:30.4

so much better when he isn't in the bed he is having a hard time with this but I hear

0:35.2

it's pretty common yes Dr. Shear what are your thoughts sleep divorce you're

0:40.6

gonna break up a lot of marriages so be careful what you say right now.

0:43.4

No, this keeps people together.

0:45.2

I have to tread carefully here.

0:47.2

I think it's an interesting point, so you know, it may bring people together by separating them.

0:55.0

Isn't that a nice summary?

0:57.0

Yes.

0:58.0

So, you know, I think people should feel comfortable to not sleep in the same bed.

1:06.7

And this is a little bit out of my area of expertise,

1:09.6

but this is my perspective, is that, you know,

1:11.6

people can still be intimate with each other but then separate later, sleep in separate beds,

1:20.9

and then in the morning they can cuddle back together or so.

1:25.6

So with other words there is you can have the best of both worlds in a way and so

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