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Hey everybody, it's Mariel.
How are you sleeping these days?
You getting enough shut-eye?
Yeah, I mean, I guess we could all be sleeping a little better, right?
I feel like I do it to myself.
I know you're not supposed to read the phone in bed.
It's just so hard.
I mean, sleep has a huge impact on our health.
It helps our brains function, it supports our immune system,
protects against heart disease and diabetes, and without it, we would die.
Though for something so important, we're never formally taught how to do it right.
In America, you learn about...
in our nutrition or sex ed in school growing up, but really never about sleep.
And so a lot of the information that we have and the knowledge that we have is passed down through our parents,
our caregivers, and it might not be evidence-based.
Rebecca Robbins is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a sleep scientist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.