#103 - Research from the 2024 SLEEP Scientific Conference: Pleasant Dreams at the Sleep Brain Drain

The 2024 SLEEP meeting just concluded in Houston where the greatest sleep minds come together and share the amazing academic and scientific projects and research they have been working on. Each year, the Sleep Unplugged podcast brings you some of the more noteworthy research and practical data from the meeting. In this episode we will:

• Review studies demonstrating poor sleep leading to selecting more processed and higher sugar content foods.
• Examine how extroversion leads to higher caloric content at night
• Understand how circadian misalignment in adolescents negatively affects athletic performance
• Dispel the notion that vitamin supplementation can make up for inadequate sleep
• Ponder how menopause might affect heart rate variability at night and cardiac risk
• Evaluate the use of personalized light therapy to reduce insomnia in shift workers
• Find out how napping affects one night of sleep deprivation
• Look how alcohol negatively affects heart rate at night
• See how surprising data in veterans shows insomnia more related to risk than sleep apnea
• Revisit cannabidiol use for insomnia and what the data shows

Produced by: Maeve Winter

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Thanks for listening and sleep well!