Episode Highlights With Matt
- How he was shot in a robbery
- He spent $45k on sleep and these are his main lessons
- Inexpensive things related to sleep that anyone can do: light, sleep environment, temperature, food timing
- How temperature drastically affects sleep
- Ways to improve deep sleep
- Why one hour of sleep is worth two hours (with some nuance)
- The reason when you work your body you tend to get more deep sleep and when you work your brain you tend to get more REM (and this is a good thing)
- During daylight savings, when we lose an hour of sleep, heart attacks go up by 24% and when we gain an hour, it goes down by 21%
- Why night shift work is classified as a carcinogen
- How not getting enough sleep leads to weight gain or loss of muscle mass
- Lack of sleep directly impacts hunger, willpower and more
- How blood sugar response changes from just one night of impaired sleep
- His top supplements for sleep: L-Theanine (in evening), magnesium, glycine, potassium, GABA
- A reason to consider taking potassium at night and how it can help minimize bathroom trips at night
- What to know about wearables and trackables for sleep
- HRV- what to know and understand and ways to improve it with float tanks, breathwork, and movement
- Why he sets an alarm for his sleep supplements and his bedtime
- A simple rule: 8 hours plus an hour for every hour of exercise
- Why sleep quality trumps sleep quantity
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