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Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

Sleep Well - Ep 2: Use the morning light

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Get comfortable, let go of the cares of the day and take a sonic journey with Dr Michael Mosley. In this new sound-filled podcast series, designed to help you drift off, each episode focuses on a scientifically proven sleep technique and takes a deep dive through some incredible sleep-related bodily mechanisms.

The light of the morning can be a powerful ally when it comes to the evening and falling asleep. Also: special eye sensors that have nothing to do with vision, a master timekeeper in the brain that’s smaller than a grain of rice, and the hormone of night.

Guest: Dr Christine Blume, psychologist and sleep researcher at the Centre for Chronobiology in Basel, Switzerland.

Producer and Sound Design: Richard Ward Assistant Producer: Gulnar Mimaroglu Editor: Zoe Heron A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them?

0:06.0

Anonymity is our most valuable gift.

0:09.0

I'm Kristi Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self.

0:16.0

Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer.

0:20.0

Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B.

0:24.1

I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things.

0:30.0

Young again, with me, Kirstie Young.

0:33.0

Listen on BBC Sounds. Sleep is an ellixia. A good night's rest can reset and boost your mood, your energy.

0:52.0

It can in the long term transform your health. But sleep can also be elusive.

1:00.3

A third of us struggle with it, myself included.

1:04.0

So, for all of you who crave better sleep, help is at hand.

1:10.0

I'm Dr Michael Mosley, and this is sleep well.

1:15.0

This is a podcast series with a difference.

1:20.0

We've designed it to help you get more rest. I'm going to guide you through some simple

1:27.1

scientifically proven ways to make it easier to drift off and tools for getting a better night's sleep.

1:37.0

So please get yourself comfortable and let's begin. Whatever your sleep experience, it's likely that time is going to be on your mind.

1:59.0

So it may be comforting to know that one of the best things you can do if you struggle to doze off at night and fixate on the clock is set your alarm and then turn the clock away.

2:12.0

Leave everything else till the morning.

2:17.0

In this episode we're going to focus not on what you do just before bed but what you do at the beginning of

2:26.6

the day. Because one of the best things you can do to help you sleep in the evening is to get up at the same time each day and

2:36.6

then to head outside into the morning light. It's all about setting a rhythm and working with the sleep related signals which are

2:51.8

operating inside your body. We'll dive into all this in a

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