#138 - The Sleepy Girl Mocktail
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Matt Walker deconstructs the Sleepy Girl Mocktail, separating digital hype from sleep science.
Deconstructing the "Sleepy Girl Mocktail", Matt separates digital hype from rigorous sleep science. He delineates that tart cherry juice works not through trace melatonin, but as an anti-inflammatory "bodyguard" for tryptophan by inhibiting the enzyme IDO. Matt also exposes the fragile "84-minute" claim, which originated from a pilot study of just eight people. Conceding that magnesium and prebiotics offer modest nudges, our host stresses that the true efficacy is behavioral, replacin...
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