Episode #212: The Sleep Dopamine Cycle Destroying Your Baseline
About this episode
Dr. Trish Leigh discusses how the sleep dopamine cycle affects brain recovery and overall mental health.
The Sleep Dopamine Cycle Destroying Your Baseline I want you to hear this clearly. You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. Your brain just didn’t finish recovering last night. When you stimulate your system before bed, you spike dopamine at the wrong time. You fall asleep quickly, and I know it feels like it worked. But what your brain needed was sequencing, not shutdown. Your brain has to move through rhythm. Beta settles. Alpha stabilizes. Delta deepens. REM integrates your emotions, your motiv...
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Host: Dr. Trish Leigh
Topics covered
- sleep
- dopamine
- brain recovery
- mental health
- self-improvement
Keywords
- sleep cycle
- dopamine
- brain health
- mental recovery
- self-improvement
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