Sleep: How Do We Get More?

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Not sleeping enough turning you into a monster? In one of our most popular episodes, we bring you the cutting-edge science that helps us understand why. And we sort through the fads to find out, what really works to get more ZZZs. We speak with lab coordinator Pam DeYoung, sleep researcher Dr. Brady Riedner, and circadian scientist Prof. Russell Foster. Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsSleep2023 In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Not sleeping sucks (03:00) What does lack of sleep do to us? (06:07) Our beer vs. sleepiness experiment (10:56) What happens in a sleepy brain (17:45) How circadian rhythm affects sleep (21:19) Does melatonin help with sleep? (23:50) Does blue light keep us awake? This episode was produced by Rose Rimler and Lexi Krupp with help from Wendy Zukerman, Michelle Dang, Meryl Horn and Kaitlyn Sawrey. Editing by Caitlin Kenney. Fact checking by Diane Kelly and Erica Akiko Howard. Mix and sound design by Peter Leonard and Bumi Hidaka. Music written by Peter Leonard, Emma Munger, Bobby Lord, and Bach. Recording assistance from Dave Drexler, Tim Peterson, Zoe Sullivan, and Martin Wiggins. Sonification of EEG data came from Dr. Gerold Baier and Dr. Thomas Hermann. A huge thanks to Dr. Amandine Valomon, Prof. James Krueger, Dr. Ari Shechter, Dr. Jade Wu, Dr. Bei Bei, Dr. Connor Sheehan, Dr. Jennifer Ailshire, Dr. Agostinho Rosa, and everyone else we spoke to for this episode, especially our frustrated sleepers. Thank you so much for all the voice messages! And special thanks to Chuma Ossé, the Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, I know that it's time to go to sleep, like my body's tired, but my brain is not.
0:11.6	It's 2 a.m. and I can't fall asleep because my mind is just racing, racing, racing through
0:20.4	just random s**t.
0:21.4	Hi, I'm Wendy Sookum and you're listening to Science Versus from Kimlet.
0:28.9	This is the show that pits facts against 40 winks on today's show, Sleep.
0:40.3	We asked people to send us a little note when they were tossing and turning at night, and
0:44.5	by the next morning, our email was full of frustrated sleepers.
0:49.3	I have tried to get back to sleep, I have trimmed my toenails, I've brushed my hair.
0:56.7	So it's 3 a.m., it used to be 2 a.m., but I decided to look on Facebook.
1:04.5	I've drafted a text, six texts to a dude, I'd like to go on a date with, it's sort of kind
1:10.6	of driving me nuts.
1:12.4	I'm now watching a spider build a web on my set of shelves, f**king infuriating.
1:21.6	For some people, this was something that happened every now and then.
1:25.2	For others, it had become the new normal.
1:49.7	It really sucks when you're tossing and turning at night, and it turns out that a lot of
1:54.0	us just aren't getting enough sleep, around a third of Americans, in fact, that's according
1:59.4	to the CDC, a third.
2:02.2	And the number of sleep deprived suckers out there seems to be going up, it's a nightmare.
2:08.6	So we have to take this line down.
2:12.3	On today's show, we are diving into the cutting edge research on the signs of sleep, to find
2:17.4	out one.
2:19.5	What happens to our brains and our bodies when we don't get enough sleep?
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