Good sleep can help fight off disease, as demonstrated by a study where vaccine recipients are either sleep deprived or allowed to sleep. Guess which group had (50%!) more antibodies?

Click above to listen to part 3 of Soap, Skin, Sleep, featuring Eti Ben Simon, neuroscientist and sleep researcher at the Center for Human Sleep Science  at the University of California, Berkeley.

Soap, Skin, Sleep:
Part 1: Cody Cassidy / Soap’s Origin
Part 2: Nina Jablonski / Skin Shield
Part 3: Eti Ben Simon / Healing Sleep

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