Andrew Huberman· PhD
Sleep is the foundation of mental health
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Sleep is the foundation of mental health
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I think it's I think it's the bedrock of it you can stack up the different physiological body systems and the different operations of the mind but I would put mental health pretty high up there in terms of one of the things that falls apart quickest and the reason I can say that is because essentially we start with these sleep deprivation studies and we can just keep sampling the organism which is the patient the individual you know every hour and we can just look to see the further you go into sleep deprivation what is the trajectory of impairment in brain and body systems
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