Andrew Huberman· PhD
Anywhere between 20 minutes to 90 minutes. Sometimes we like to use a 90 minute window so that the participant can have a full cycle of sleep, and therefore they get both non REM and REM sleep within that time period.
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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.
Anywhere between 20 minutes to 90 minutes. Sometimes we like to use a 90 minute window so that the participant can have a full cycle of sleep, and therefore they get both non REM and REM sleep within that time period.
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what we know broadly about the architecture of sleep is that as you go on throughout the night the percentage of REM sleep increases and every one of your sleep cycles which vary from around 70 to 90 minutes perhaps but that as you sleep throughout the night REM increases and non-rem decreases broadly speaking
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