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🗓️ 19 July 2024
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There are lots of things we can do to relax and get ready for bed at the end of the day: take a warm bath, curl up with a book, or even sip a steaming mug of chamomile tea! But why does chamomile tea make us feel so sleepy? We asked brain doctor and sleep expert Chris Winter to help us find the answer.
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0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. Moment of Am comes to you from APM time. I'm riding my bike home from the office. |
0:30.6 | As I'm sure you know, I'm a high-powered business cat working in New York City. |
0:37.0 | I design advertisements for some of the top brands in the world, |
0:42.0 | Horizon, Kitty Bank, and of course, Pet Flix. |
0:46.0 | My job is extraordinarily stressful, |
0:50.0 | or at least it used to be. |
0:52.0 | I realize life is too short to spend all my time thinking about work. |
0:58.0 | That's why I'm doing more of the things I love, like riding my bike. |
1:03.4 | Out of my way, extremely relaxed cat coming through. |
1:08.1 | And when I get home, I like to make myself a cup of piping hot tea, Mint, ginger, green tea. I love them all. Some of my |
1:17.6 | human friends like Camamile tea too. It's made from the flowers of the |
1:22.3 | Camamile plant and I've heard it makes them feel all warm and sleepy. |
1:27.0 | Mmm, sounds nice. |
1:29.0 | I wonder why Camamile tea makes humans feel tired. Greta and I both want to know. |
1:36.2 | What part of the Kemmomile plant makes you feel sleepy? |
1:39.3 | Cameo is a common tea that people drink and people often ask what is it in Cammeo that makes a sleepy. |
1:51.0 | My name's Chris Winter and I'm a neurologist or brain doctor and sleep specialist. |
1:57.1 | There are a variety of chemicals in Camamile that tend to relax or make us feel sleepy. There's a chemical called a |
2:04.5 | pigeonen that is most likely to create that effect. It has an effect like |
2:10.1 | certain drugs that people use to make them feel sleepy. |
2:13.0 | There's a chemical on our brain called Gaba |
2:15.8 | that this chemical interacts with to make us feel sleepy. |
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