{"id":1105,"date":"2023-08-06T07:41:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T07:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2025-03-15T21:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:07:26","slug":"bm204-the-science-of-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=1105","title":{"rendered":"BM204 &#8211; The Science of Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s episode, I speak to Ashen Vithana, a sleep scientist, and Alex Young, an entrepreneur and futurist, from the http:\/\/youtube.com\/@thesnoozestrategists podcast.<\/p>\n<p>I speak to them about the following topics:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; What is sleep science?<br \/>\n&#8211; What makes for a good sleep?<br \/>\n&#8211; Is there an impact from watching screens before bed?<br \/>\n&#8211; Are sleeping pills a good idea?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the impact of exercise on sleep?<br \/>\n&#8211; How useful are wearable health devices?<br \/>\n&#8211; How does shift work impact sleep?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/images\/audio.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ia600801.us.archive.org\/26\/items\/204-sleep\/204-YT.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 204<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\" https:=\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Become a Patreon<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/brainsmatter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/patreon50\/patreon50.jpg\" alt=\"Patreon\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis episode is also available on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n394qJ2NK3M\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n394qJ2NK3M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The theme music, \u201cSoul of the Machine\u201d, was composed and performed by Clive Weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s episode, I speak to Ashen Vithana, a sleep scientist, and Alex Young, an entrepreneur and futurist, from the http:\/\/youtube.com\/@thesnoozestrategists podcast. I speak to them about the following topics: &#8211; What is sleep science? &#8211; What makes for a good sleep? &#8211; Is there an impact from watching screens before bed? &#8211; Are sleeping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}