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Podcast: Happy Habit Podcast
Episode: # 391 - Why we sleep and what happens when we dont - Prof Russell Foster
Description: Today I speak with world renowned neuroscientist, author of Life Time and sleep expert, Prof Russell Foster BSc, PhD, CBE, FRS FMedSc. He is the Director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the Head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute. He is also a Nicholas Kurti Senior Fellow at Brasenose College at the University of Oxford.In this episode we talk about the rhythms of biology which govern our lives and our sleep and we hear how our body temperature, blood pressure and hormones fluctuate throughout a 24 hour cycle.Discover the importance of a chemical called adenosine and...