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Change Your Brain Every Day

The Connection Between REM Sleep and the Brain, with Dr. Michael Breus

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Whether you're an early bird, night owl, or somewhere in between, at some point during our sleep all of us experience the phenomenon of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Most of us are aware that our dream state is associated with REM sleep, but what exactly is the brain doing at this time? In this episode, Dr. Daniel and Tana Amen are once again joined by Dr. Michael Breus for a discussion on the effects of REM sleep on the brain.

For more information on Dr. Michael Breus, visit https://thesleepdoctor.com/

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way Podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body.

0:19.0

The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aemon Clinics, where we have been transforming

0:25.5

lives for 30 years, using tools like brain-spect imaging to personalize treatment to your

0:32.0

brain.

0:32.6

For more information,

0:34.1

visit Aaman Clinics.com.

0:35.9

The Brain Warriors Way Podcast is also brought to you by Brain MD

0:39.6

where we produce the highest quality nutraceuticals to support the health of your brain and body.

0:45.3

To learn more, go to brainMD.com.

0:49.1

Welcome back everyone.

0:52.2

We are introducing Dr. Michael Bruce to the brain warrior community.

0:57.6

All brain warriors know sleep is essential if you want to be armed prepared and aware to win the fight of your life

1:08.0

for the health of your brain.

1:10.0

Sleep forever has been one of the major pillars of brain health.

1:14.7

And we're bringing you one of the world's experts

1:18.0

who's not only knowledgeable, but he's fun and funny and practical and one of the tools he has that a whole bunch of people have taken is Krono Quiz and so while we were talking took it, and I'm a bear.

1:34.7

So, Michael, can you talk about the different types of sleepers

1:41.8

as what that means to people?

1:44.4

Absolutely. So the Krono quiz actually taps into your genetic sleep schedule.

1:50.9

Now you may not have heard of a chronotype before but you probably actually heard of the concept. If anybody's ever called you an early bird or a night owl, those are chronotypes. Back in the 70s the research was done there and they discovered there's early people there's late people then about 10 years later they're like well I think there's also somebody in the middle we're going to call them hummingbirds. All right?

2:12.8

So you had early birds, you had hummingbirds,

2:14.6

and you had night owls for a while.

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