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WIDLIMS ep #22 – Better health? Sleep on it!
In this week’s episode, I welcome the brilliant Dr Mike Farquhar (he/him) who works as a consultant paediatric sleep physician in London. This means he works with children and adolescents who have sleep difficulties! We discuss why sleep should receive more attention, how to improve sleep and challenges night shift workers face which I find is often not discussed. So what do we cover? A lot, including alien abductions and ‘caffeine naps’… But broadly, this episode covers: what sleep is, how much we need, and how to tell what your sleep quality is like ‘hacks’ for better sleep – and the role of caffeine sleep routines for night shift workers,…