Doctors perspectives on current health news | vol.#6

A Prescription For Sleep

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Dr. William C. Shiel Jr., Chief Medical Editor of MedicineNet.com discusses sleep, what does it do for us?

Listen now to Dr. William Shiel discuss A Prescription For Sleep. (MP3 4:41min 2.15MB)

The following is a partial transcript taken from this audio broadcast:

"Today we would like to welcome Dr. William Shiel to our MedicineNet podcast discussing a popular topic with our viewers - sleep!  Dr. Shiel, what does sleep do for us? Actually, sleep plays a number of roles in a restorative fashion for our bodies.  The primary areas that we're all aware of are: restoring our physical well-being by making us feel better after a hard day of physical activities, and it restoring us emotionally and mentally allowing us  time for recovery from life stresses during the day...."

Listen to the entire audio segment of Health Beat on A Prescription For Sleep in this edition of / Doctors on Health /.

Read article: Sleep: How Active Is Your Brain While You're Sleeping?

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