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How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Sleep Architecture
Episode 84 of The Burnout Podcast explores how chronic career exhaustion alters your sleep architecture — specifically, how it fragments deep sleep and suppresses restorative slow-wave activity. Hosts Lucas and Luna unpack a 2023 University of Helsinki study tracking 4,200 workers over five years, which found that those with high burnout scores lost 18 minutes of deep sleep per night on average compared to low-burnout peers. They discuss the neurochemistry: how elevated cortisol and norepinephrine keep the brain in a lighter sleep stage, and why burnout recovery often stalls because sleep…
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