Dr. Matt Walker

You don't get the good.

So again, not to be trying to dictate what people do, just be aware that when you do create that behavior and that regimen, it becomes almost like a knee-jerk sort of trained habitual response.

There are, and I suppose this would be, you know, I know our friend Petra Teer has spoken about medicine 3.0.

I think this would probably be sleep optimization 3.0.

What is coming down the pike?

What is in the research and I think, you know, could make it to market or has made it to market, but yet we're still right on the cusp?

We've seen, we again in the Royal We, have been able to augment human sleep in at least four different ways.

There are methods for electrical brain stimulation.

There are methods for acoustic stimulation of sleep.

So electrical stimulation of sleep, acoustic stimulation of sleep.

thermal manipulation of sleep, and then finally kinesthetic manipulation of sleep, meaning movement-based stimulation.

And maybe I can just go into each one of those.

The electrical stimulation is probably the most well rendered of all of those four.

In part because we started there, and here it's not the royal we.

We have done a lot of work on this, and I can tell you a little bit about a company emerging from that.

But when you're trying to manipulate the human brain, the principal currency in which the brain communicates is electricity.

Now, there are lots of things that help it do that, such as chemicals, but the principal language and...

verbiage of the brain is electricity.

So if you're going to manipulate the brain, why don't you speak in its currency of electricity?

So we and others have developed a method based on something called direct current brain stimulation,