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What makes your arms, legs and feet fall asleep?
Episode August 31, 2012 3 min 26s

What makes your arms, legs and feet fall asleep?

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When you put prolonged pressure on your feet, arms or legs, you temporarily cut off or scramble communications between your brain and your body parts. Marshall explains exactly what happens when body parts "fall sleep" in this episode.

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