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  Snippit is made possible by listeners like you.Please help support the podcast:► https://www.patreon.com/snippitscience      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30736268   J Clin Med. 2019 Feb 6;8(2). pii: E193. doi: 10.3390/jcm8020193. Influence of a 30-Day Slow-Paced Breathing Intervention Compared to Social Media Use on Subjective Sleep Quality and Cardiac Vagal Activity. Laborde S, Hosang T, Mosley E, Dosseville F   Abstract Breathing techniques are part of traditional relaxation methods; however, their influence on psychophysiological variables related to sleep is still unclear. Consequently, the aim of this paper was to investigate the influence of a 30-day slow-paced breathing intervention compared to social media use on subjective sleep quality and cardiac vagal activity (CVA, operationalized via high-frequency heart rate variability).   Healthy participants (n = 64, 33 male, 31 female, M = 22.11, SD = 3.12) were randomly allocated to an experimental or control group. In the experimental group,