Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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BrainCraft is hosted by Dr Vanessa Hill, a sleep scientist whose research focuses on sleep habits and bedtime procrastination. All my videos have some kind of sleep or health science for tired humans, and are grounded in peer-reviewed research.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Has health optimization culture gone too far?
1:26 My POV
2:37 Feeling guilty for doing normal things
3:45 Obsessing over the data
5:05 Dr Ben Rein
5:52 Blaming yourself
8:05 Why your brain needs friends too
10:27 My husbands thoughts on my experiment
13:16 Finding Balance

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