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Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

Sleep Well - Ep 3: Enjoy your bed

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 14 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.

There are some simple yet powerful steps you can follow to form new and positive connections around bedtime habits, your bed, and sleep itself. And encounter a chemical that’s in every cell in the body and which makes us drowsy.

Guest: Dr Colleen Carney, Director of the Sleep and Depression Laboratory at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.

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

BBC Sounds.

0:02.0

Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers.

0:06.0

But you sit down and be bright.

0:08.0

Celebrating women's voices.

0:10.0

You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn.

0:14.8

This is juicy. No limits, no limits.

0:17.2

Celebrating women.

0:18.8

Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being.

0:23.1

We're on a quest to find out where in the world women are living their best lives.

0:27.6

Celebrate yourself.

0:28.8

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

0:48.0

It can in the long term transform your health.

0:52.0

But sleep can also be elusive. A third of us struggle with it, myself included.

1:00.5

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

1:07.0

I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is Sleep Well.

1:12.0

This is a podcast series with a difference. We've designed it to help you get more rest.

1:20.9

I'm going to guide you through some simple scientifically proven ways to make it easier to drift off and tools for getting a better night sleep.

1:32.0

So please get yourself comfortable and let's begin. Bed is where it all happens. It's the backdrop for our sleep stories and if you struggle sometimes to fall or stay asleep, then you'll

1:56.2

know all too well that your sleep story can quickly become a psychodrama and that's never going to help you to drift off.

2:07.2

But there's one simple thing you can do to change that story.

2:12.0

It's one of the most effective and well used methods in sleep therapy.

2:19.0

If sleep isn't coming, then just get up. It may sound counterintuitive, but it's all about making bed a place of solace,

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