Dr. Wendy Suzuki

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915 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 7 Jan

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The Tamsen Show · How To Stop Feeling Anxious All The Time with Neuroscientist Dr. Wendy Suzuki · 7 Jan 2026 podcast

So you're doubly screwed on both ends.

The other thing that happens during sleep, and this is for everybody every single night,

The brain is the number one user of oxygen in the entire body.

So because it does, there are billions of cells in there being active all the time.

Just us sitting here talking to each other, looking at each other, listening to each other, so much of our brain is active and that creates metabolites.

The brain uses energy and

It's the equivalent of garbage.

So your brain cells are putting out garbage during sleep is when the proverbial brain garbage truck goes around to all the different cells and picks up all that garbage, cleans it up.

You say, ah, I'm strong.

I only need five hours of sleep tonight.

Well, you end up with garbage filled brain.

You do that for too long and you are not working at your optimum capacity.

And I like that because it scares me to have a garbage filled brain.

So I'm hoping it's scaring other people.

Yes, you can.

Absolutely.

One of my favorite books as a memory nerd.

So I started off studying memory, how memory works.

I'm an expert on

the hippocampus and hippocampal anatomy and physiology.

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