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Today’s episode focuses on optimising your sleep. It’s designed for people who don’t have clinical insomnia but would like to fine-tune their sleep. M...
Matt is back this week with his recurring series, ‘Sleep is Bloody Remarkable’. Today’s episode is all about why we are unique when it comes to sleep....
In this episode, Matt goes deeper into his exploration of lucid dreaming. He tells us all about studies demonstrating that lucid dreamers can wake fr...
In part five of his series on dreams, Matt discusses what lucid dreaming is and how it was scientifically proven to be real. We define lucid dreaming...
Today’s episode focuses on a second but very different function of dreaming: the ingenious processing and interconnection of memories that inspires cr...
Matt’s back with part three of his series on the science of dreaming! In this episode, he discusses how he and other scientists have discovered that d...
In the second episode of this series about REM sleep dreaming, Matt explores what the science has to say not only about how we dream at the brain leve...
This week’s episode is the first in a new multi-part series all about dreams! Today, Matt focuses on the question of how your brain generates these th...
Matt has a special announcement this week: a new recurring type of episode called, ‘Sleep is Bloody Remarkable’. This series of episodes will share fa...
Matt returns with Part 2 of his series on sleep and weight gain. This time around, he teaches us how a lack of sleep not only makes you eat more food,...
Matt kicks off a two-part series all about sleep, eating, and weight gain. He starts by introducing two appetite-regulating hormones: leptin and ghr...
In the previous episode, Matt described the role of temperature in helping us fall asleep. In this episode, Matt teaches us all about the role of temp...
In today's episode, Matt reveals how 1) your own temperature and, even more precisely, 2) the temperature of different parts of you, as well as 3) the...
In today's episode, Matt takes us on a deep dive into melatonin. He covers four main topics: 1) what is melatonin? 2) how does melatonin work? 3) what...
In this week’s episode, Matt continues his discussion of sleep and caffeine. Here, we learn about the paradox of coffee, one in which coffee provides ...
In today's episode, Matt unpacks the world of coffee, and caffeine in the first of a two-part series on caffeine. Matt describes the numerous health b...
On last week’s episode, we learned about the three main ways alcohol can harm our sleep: 1) alcohol results in sedation rather than naturalistic sleep...
Although some people may believe that a drink or two in the evening will help them sleep better, today’s episode shows us that alcohol harms our sleep...
As the great Roman poet, Ovid, once said, “There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than all the alcohol ever distill...
In the final episode of our three-part series about chronotypes, Matt examines the question of whether your chronotype is truly fixed, or if you can ...
In the second episode of our three-part series on chronotypes, Matt speaks about what happens when you do not sleep in harmony with your natural chro...
Episode 04: Chronotype: Part 1 Summary Are you a morning type? Or are you an evening type? Perhaps you are neither of the two? Today’s episode is th...
#03 Circadian Rhythms Continuing on from last week’s episode about sleep pressure, today, Matt Walker dives into the second half of the sleep-wake st...
Episode 02: Sleep Pressure Welcome back to the Matt Walker podcast. Today’s episode looks at the story of sleep pressure - how it works, how you can...
Episode 01: Highlights Human sleep has been separated into two main types: Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep NR...
The Matt Walker Podcast is all about sleep, the brain, and the body · Matt is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley ·...
