Sleep Well - Ep 5: Listen to your body
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K 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.
With sleep - because one size doesn’t fit all - you can benefit by listening more to your body and letting go of expectations. We invite you to meet a whole cast of biological characters that work together to pave the way to sleep.
Guest: Professor Nicole Tang, Director of the Sleep and Pain Lab at the University of Warwick.
Producer and Sound Designer: Richard Ward Assistant Producer: Gulnar Mimaroglu Editor: Zoe Heron A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4.
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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... transform, |
| 0:53.0 | but sleep can also be elusive. |
| 0:56.0 | A third of us struggle with it, |
| 0:58.0 | myself included. |
| 1:00.0 | 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 |
| 1:18.8 | you get more rest. 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. for getting a better night's sleep. |
| 1:33.0 | So please get yourself comfortable, |
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