Dr. Giulia Enders

So if you're good in the first half, then that's good for a lot of physical processes like bodily things happening.

Most people have rather a hard time with the second half of the night or they wake up and then they have a hard time falling back asleep.

And I think, well, we weren't even done with listing all the things sleep is good for, you know, pain tolerance, hormone balance, digestive health because of replenishing of the cells there as well.

So it could go on and on and mental health, risk of dementia, blah, blah, blah, blah.

But the funny thing here is people have all these advices now.

They have social media and health information with what you should do, do this, do this, do this, do that in order to sleep better.

And, you know, then they also get scared.

If I don't sleep well, I will get this, this, this, this, this.

And the ironic thing is that sleep is just really important.

out of their territory.

It's not the territory of the conscious mind who lists all the to-do things.

I mean, it can do that before you go to bed.

It can watch not to use the cell phone, not to eat too late, like all these things.

But sleep in itself is really the other parts of the brain taking over.

And also the consciousness being able to give them this responsibility and let go of it for a few hours.

These areas that just have a very different way of going about things.

And I'm actually quite successful at it.

So our consciousness compared to them is so bad at regulating our body, blood pressure, breathing, and so on.

It, you know, regularly disrupts it in a negative way, to be honest, by all these stupid thoughts and thinking and responsibilities.

And when they have time without it, oh, they're so relieved.