#42 - Sleep and Exercise Pt. 4
On today’s episode, Matt goes beyond the if and the what type of exercise to discuss the when. Which is to say, does the timing of exercise matter when it comes to sleep improvements? Based on his exp...
27 Feb 202321min
# 41 - Sleep and Exercise Pt. 3
Today, Matt focuses on how the type, intensity, and duration of exercise affect its impact on sleep. A study of middle-aged adults split its active group into three subgroups: moderate-intensity aerob...
13 Feb 202326min
# 40 - Sleep and Exercise Pt. 2
This week, Matt goes deeper into the relationship between sleep and exercise. More specifically, does daytime exercise change the stages and types of sleep? Deep sleep is critical for various function...
30 Jan 202322min
# 39 - Sleep and Exercise Pt. 1
Does exercise have an impact on the quantity and quality of your sleep? The National Sleep Foundation's annual poll found that individuals who exercised frequently (defined as three times or more a we...
16 Jan 202323min
#38: Sleep is Bloody Remarkable #3
Almost every species will suffer catastrophic impairment in the brain and body due to total or chronic partial long-term sleep loss—save for a small handful of befuddling cases where lack of sleep doe...
2 Jan 202313min
#37: Sleep and Memory - Part 3
The final installment of this series focuses on what happens inside your brain during deep, non-REM sleep that allows you to fixate new memories. There are at least two mechanisms at work here. One is...
19 Dec 202218min
#36: Sleep and Memory - Part 2
Previously, we learned sleep is necessary before learning to prepare the brain to learn effectively. But sleep is also needed after learning to cement new information in your brain. This discovery hap...
5 Dec 202217min
# 35: Sleep and Memory - Part 1
It is a fundamental truth that sleep is far more than the absence of wakefulness. It is an incredibly active state, demonstrated by the fact that numerous functions of the brain and body are restored ...
21 Nov 202217min
