Sleep

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What is sleep? Find out what happens when you go to bed and close your eyes.

We spend about a third of our lives sleeping. Sleep rejuvenates our body and help clean out our brain. But what is sleep? Scientists are studying why we sleep, why we don’t and what sleep really means. Host Joan Cartan-Hansen and her guests, Dr. Janat O’Donnell and Nancy Nadolski, a Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in sleep issues, will answer students’ questions.

Aired 05/16/2017 | Rating TV-G

Science Trek is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV

Major Funding Provided by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and the Idaho National Laboratory

Sleep

Special | 28m 48sVideo has Closed Captions

Aired 05/16/2017 | Rating TV-G

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Science and Nature

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