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Better Circadian Rhythms & Sleep Experiments Lookback
Episode Summary
We discuss how circadian rhythms are crucial to unlocking the best sleep of your life and look back on our sleep experiments from our very first episode.
Episode Notes
We discuss how circadian rhythms are crucial to unlocking the best sleep of your life and look back on our sleep experiments from our very first episode.
Show Notes
- 2:50 - March kicks off the discussion with a background on what Circadian rhythms are and an overview of the basic human Circadian rhythm.
- 6:40 - How Circadian rhythms affect mental alertness and physical performance.
- 9:10 - How do our Circadian rhythms change to accommodate different lifestyles?
- 11:35 - Why do our Circadian rhythms matter and why is it helpful for us to be conscious of our sleep-wake cycles.
- 15:38 - We discuss Dr. Matthew Walker's book Why We Sleep?
- 16:33 - We look back on some of the sleep experiments we committed to way back in episode 2 on sleep and Ian discusses his experience with the Oura ring.
- 19:51 - March shares his experience with using topical magnesium and delta wave sounds to improve sleep quality.
- 22:01 - Ian shares a new product for sleep improvement he discovered called NuCalm.
- 25:00 - Darren shares his experience adopting a mediation practice and what effects meditation had on the quality of his sleep.
- 28:11 - The Oak meditation app and the new mantra meditations the recently introduced.
- 29:10 - We each share our experiences using the Oura ring and explore the Oura web dashboard to learn more about our sleep and readiness cycles.
- 33:11 - How the Oura ring calculates its "readiness" score and what does the readiness score really tell us.
- 36:20 - We compare our levels of various sleep quality measurements including the amount of deep sleep and heart rate variability.
- 38:50 - How Darren's amount of deep sleep has changed and what he attributes his increase in deep sleep to.
- 42:14 - Heart Rate Variability - what it is and what it tells us.
- 46:39 - We each share a few tricks to help improve sleep quality and optimize our schedule with our Circadian rhythms.
- 53:03 - Darren shares his experience with a recent spike in the amount of deep sleep he's getting and hypothesizes about the cause of that improvement.
- 56:17 - Ian decides that he is going to "go back to the basics" in terms of optimizing his sleep environment.
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