Andrew Huberman· PhD
THC can, seems to speed up the time with which you fall asleep. But again, if you look at the electrical brainwave signature of you're falling asleep with and without that THC, it's not going to be an ideal fit.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
THC can, seems to speed up the time with which you fall asleep. But again, if you look at the electrical brainwave signature of you're falling asleep with and without that THC, it's not going to be an ideal fit.
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there is evidence according to Matt Walker who did a six episode series with on sleep that THC does help certain people fall asleep but it can dramatically alter the architecture of sleep in ways that are probably not great
acute use of THC typically has a quote unquote beneficial effect such that it will decrease the amount of time it takes you to fall asleep what's called your sleep latency that's the only thing that impacts is latency so it reduces the latency and it makes it feel as though a while and you are essentially if your duration so yeah so you're falling asleep faster total duration not so much
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