Dr. Sue McCurry

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Life's Dirty Little Secrets Podcast | Breaking Silence Around the Secrets We All Carry · Secret #83: Sleep Myths with Dr. Sue McCurry · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

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Homeostatic sleep drive where

Uh that's our our need to sleep, gets higher and higher and higher.

It should be high at nighttime.

That helps us fall asleep and stay asleep.

And then our circadian biorhythm.

And these two things were

Uh and our and and that our body temperature rises and falls in a sine wave and the melatonin levels rise and fall.

And those two processes work together.

And so some of these perpetuating factors interfere with one or both of these processes.

So for example, if I instead of getting up at nine, I sleep by seven, I get up at nine.

I feel better.

Great.

But now what I've done is I've made the length of time between when I got up and when I'm going to bed the next night shorter.

So less sleep drive has time to build up.

I basically pulled drive out of the bank, so it's less available for night.

And I've also potentially mucked with my circadian patterns.

Now one night's not gonna make a difference one day.

But if you're you're kind of very irregular in in particular in your rise times, our our biorhythms, our sleep wake ones particularly, what they like better than anything is for everything to be done on the same time.

I mean, they've done studies like in nursing homes that they could improve

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