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by pseudalopex 732 days ago
Episode 2 was about sleep. But the transcript had no matches for insomnia or camping.[1]

It sounds like a distorted memory of a small study where subjects without sleep disorders slept earlier but not longer or better when camping with natural light and fire only.[2] How long the effect lasted was not studied.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm1TxQj9IsQ

[2] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(13)...

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This makes far more sense. A lot of people with insomnia have Sleep Disordered Breathing - sometimes apnea, sometimes UARS which is roughly the same thing except you tend to wake up before oxygen desaturation, resulting in somewhat different symptoms and high false negative diagnostic rates.