Sleep for health and focus
- Author
- Ian Mikutel, March Rogers, Darren Austin
- Published
- Fri 13 Oct 2017
- Episode Link
- https://www.bettershow.io/
Why do we sleep? What impacts can it have on your body, mind, and everything else in your life? How do we get better at sleep?
Show Notes
- 1:25 - How sleep deprivation came to affect each of the guys
- 6:00 - What we know (and don't know) about sleep
- 7:35 - This is your brain on sleep
- 9:19 - the (compelling/ surprising/ unexpected) link between insomnia and Alzheimer's disease
- 10:00 - What sleep deprivation can mean for your life
- 11:54 - Are you actually more focused when you're sleep deprived?
- 14:47 - Fuel in the tank ,money in the bank (resilience)
- 15: 40 - mental focus vs emotional energy
- 19:16 - How to track your sleep through apps and wearables
- 28:34 - The phases of the moon can affect your sleep (even if you're not a werewolf)
- 30:44 - Understanding your body's love/hate relationship with blue light and how to manage it
- 36:34 - How your sleep can improve with fresh air and temperature change
- 40:25 - March, on how he went from skeptic to believer of sleep masks
- 43:45 -Darren, on how yoga transformed his sleep
- 46:03 - Ian, on his experiments with socks and snugness
- 49:53 - Breathing tips for getting to sleep faster, as tested by March
- 53:37 - March conquers jet lag through fasting, Ian through exercise, and maybe by walking barefoot?
- 1:03: 32 -How to use caffeine to take better naps
- 1:06-ish - sidebar on timing
- 1:10:36 - Our next experiments: sounds, salves, and sunrise
- Ian will be using his Oura ring and waking up at sunrise
- Darren will try Sleep cycle and mapping his meditation practice to his sleeping habits
- March is trying topical magnesium and the delta wave sound machine
- 1:19:00 - How to join The Better Show community
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