#027 - Dr Greg Potter - The Definitive Guide To Sleep
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2018
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Dr Greg Potter is a PhD graduate at the University of Leeds & Content Director at HumanOS. His research focus is on sleep and chronobiology; looking at circadian rhythms, light-dark cycles and the potential for meals to entrain peripheral circadian clocks.
The unsung hero of health is hiding under our pillow every night and today we learn just how important a good night's sleep is to our short & long term fitness, our mood, cognitive output, physical performance, injury risk, weight and pretty much everything else.
Discover the best approach for dealing with sleep deprivation, how to optimise your sleeping environment, how meal content & timing can affect our circadian rhythms and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, how was United Sleep? Was it good? Hopefully after today's episode it's |
| 0:08.1 | going to be better. Today we're going to speak to Dr. Greg Potter who is a PhD |
| 0:15.8 | graduate from the University of Leeds and a specialist in sleep. His work has |
| 0:20.8 | been featured absolutely everywhere from writers to time magazine, Washington |
| 0:25.9 | Post USA Today Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio. He's pretty prolific and he's also |
| 0:34.8 | the content director at humanos.me. Now the guys at humanos haven't sponsored |
| 0:41.1 | this episode at all. However, it is a fantastic service that you should check out |
| 0:47.7 | and later on in the episode Greg explains what it's all about but if you do want |
| 0:52.7 | to go and have a look to treat the sign up and with the code modern wisdom you can |
| 0:57.5 | actually get their premium version for one dollar for the first month and there's |
| 1:01.6 | no minimum term. So check it out. Now many people take a lot of time researching |
| 1:08.0 | their diet or their exercise and making sure that they're trying to live a healthy life |
| 1:12.9 | but quite a lot of us overlook just how important sleep is in this equation and having read Matthew |
| 1:19.0 | Walker's book Why We Sleep, I was struck by just how little care I was giving to my sleep |
| 1:27.6 | habits. The implications on your health, mood and performance both in the short and long |
| 1:35.2 | term are pretty drastic and I don't think that there can be enough weight applied to just |
| 1:44.0 | how important sleep is. Now hopefully today we're going to convert you from a non-believer |
| 1:52.5 | to sleep paragon who is armed with some new tools to improve their sleep and a passion |
| 2:00.5 | to actually make it better. Essentially what I'm saying is that if you live a long and |
| 2:06.2 | healthy life with all of your faculties still intact at the ripe old age of 95 you can |
| 2:12.0 | be on your deathbed incredibly mobile and full of zen and look back at this podcast and |
| 2:18.8 | think thanks Chris and Dr Greg. |
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