Andrew Huberman· PhD
Into Rx approaches?: the new DORAS/Orexin antagonists: expensive but they seem to preserve/enhance REM.
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Into Rx approaches?: the new DORAS/Orexin antagonists: expensive but they seem to preserve/enhance REM.
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these drugs can improve most all aspects of sleep but including REM sleep which those classic sleeping pills did not
why don't we selectively de develop a drug that goes after this finger that flips the light switch on for wakefulness but now let's block it at night so we flick the switch back in the off position we turn out the lights of the brain and we remove the problem of insomnia which is excessive wakefulness at night
so if you ask me where are we at with REM it's it's certainly more bereft of methods than deep non-rem sleep but we are starting to find some now
there's a new class of drugs that we've spoken about in a previous episode called the Doras the jeel orexin receptor antagonists d r a small s
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