Skeptoid #1037: A Skeptic's Guide to Sleepmaxxing

About this episode

This episode discusses the social media trend of sleepmaxxing and its potential negative effects on health.

This social media fad promises to supercharge your sleep and make you healthier than healthy, when in fact it probably does significantly more harm than good. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

People in this episode

Host: Brian Dunning

Topics covered

• sleep
• health
• social media
• fad
• skepticism

Keywords

• sleepmaxxing
• health
• social media
• skepticism
• sleep

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: dovetail.prx.org

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