539: How to achieve the best sleep of your life | Jade Wu, Ph.D., DBSM, board-certified behavioral sleep medicine psychologist

“Broad-spectrum light exposure is the strongest and best kept secret for good quality sleep," says Jade Wu, Ph.D.

Jade, a board-certified behavioral sleep medicine psychologist, joins us to discuss how to solve every sleep issue, plus:

- Jade’s sleep hygiene tips (~00:41)

- How to know if you have sleep apnea (~02:20)

- How many people actually have insomnia (~07:45)

- What to do if you can’t fall asleep (~09:47)

- What to do if you wake up in the middle of the night (~13:38)

- How performance anxiety relates to sleep (~17:30)

- Jade’s research on CBT, sleep & cardiovascular health (~18:16)

- How to nap responsibly (~21:32)

- How to define quality of sleep (~26:21)

- How air quality impacts your sleep (~32:28)

- Time in nature & sleep quality (~37:14)

- Jade’s POV on daylight savings (~39:50)

- Why we should pay more attention to nightmares (~42:39)

- The best types of white noise for sleep (~44:46)

- Why sleep regularity is more important than duration (~47:08)

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Referenced in the episode:

- Jade's book, Hello Sleep 

- SnoreLab

- mbg Podcast episode #453, with Aric Prather, Ph.D.

- Sign up for Jade's SleepRight study

- Follow Jade on Audible

- A study on the importance of sleep regularity

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