What’s The Science Of Sleep? with Dr. Gina Poe

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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We spend one third of our lives sleeping. But WTF is going on during those hours?! This week, Dr. Gina Poe gives us an A to Zzzz crash course in all things sleep. Dreams, memory, narcolepsy, naps, sleep demons, traveling across time zones, playing video games before bed, how substances like caffeine and alcohol affect our rest—and beyond! Gina Poe is a neuroscientist at UCLA who has worked on the functions of sleep for over 30 years with an independent research laboratory funded by the National Institute of Mental Health for over 20 years. At UCLA she teaches how the brain becomes biased and one can change one's mind through the powerfully plastic state of sleep, winning the UCLA Distinguished Teaching award in 2022 and the US President's 2014 PAESMEM award for mentoring work through the Society for Neuroscience. Dr. Poe counsels on initiatives and funding priorities for the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, has authored nearly 200 publications (papers and abstracts), and has appeared on PBS's NOVA and Netflix's The Mind Explained and other television and podcast venues. She and her husband have four children, two grandchildren (with another on the way!), a dog, and a cat. You can follow Dr. Poe on Twitter @doctorpoe, on Instagram @poe.gina, and on LinkedIn at Gina R. Poe. For more information, check out: The National Sleep Foundation Dr. Poe’s Brain Research Institute site Dr. Poe’s Department site Dr. Poe Lab site Dr. Poe’s publications Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our producer is Chris McClure. Our associate producer is Allison Weiss. Our engineer is Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Samantha Martinez, and Anne Currie. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness. Every week I sit down for a gorgeous
0:08.4	conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:12.3	And I interrupt the beginning of this episode with a very, just, this is just so major,
0:16.3	I have to tell you the very beginning. Our guest has the most stunning fucking hair ever.
0:21.7	I just, it is, Larry, these ways are so gorgeous. And I typically would wait until the
0:27.2	body of the episode to compliment you on this hair. But Dane Gina, this hair is so beautiful.
0:33.2	The color, the texture. Thank you. I bet the extra sleep that you're studying is giving
0:39.2	it to us. And because the hair is giving us health, honey. So spoiler alert, we're learning
0:43.0	about sleep today. It's getting late. The lights are out. The vibes are right. This week
0:50.4	on getting curious. We're going under the covers and into the science of sleep.
0:56.8	Gina Poe is a professor at UCLA's Brain Research Institute. Her lab research is how sleep
1:03.6	can serve learning and memory consolidation. Wow, major. Okay. So picture it. Well, actually,
1:10.9	don't picture it because I've taken a bath. I just turned on gardeners world. That's like my
1:16.3	sleepy time show. I love it so much. Even though it is so interesting, sometimes it kind of
1:20.4	keeps me up because do you know this show with Monty Don? I don't, but I can imagine. It's really good.
1:25.2	It's, it's not gardens. But you know, I'm ready for bed. My skin care is on. I've got my seven
1:29.6	layers of my nighttime skincare on. My hair isn't my silk scrunchy. But what's happening between
1:34.4	that time from when I get tired and I fall asleep? Do when I wake up, what's that about? That's
1:40.8	like a third of our lives. Yeah, it really is. And that question, that burning question got me into
1:46.4	sleep research 35 years ago. I couldn't believe that we didn't know what we were doing for a third
1:52.7	of our lives. And I talked to the experts in the world and they didn't know either. They had lots
1:59.4	of great hypotheses, fun hypotheses about what might be going on. But we really didn't have any
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