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Why your bed is for sleeping

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The bed might be one of the most favourite inanimate objects to ever enter anyone's life. The bed is a safe haven, somewhere to sleep, lounge, do work, read books, watch TV, check the phone and, enjoy some intimacy with a loved one, but if the bed is a place for multiple activities then what does that mean for the transition into sleep?

Phil Teuwen is the sleep unit manager at the Wesley Hospital Sleep Disorders Centre and he's chatting with ABC Radio Brisbane Afternoons presenter Kat Feeney.

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Sleep, Sleep Disorders
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