The Better Show
Sleep for health and focus
Episode Summary
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?
Episode Notes
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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