116: Dr. Michael Breus - The Mystery Of Sleep • What Is Your Chronotype? • The Best Pillow And Mattress
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Michael Breus (The Sleep Doctor) is a Clinical Psychologist and both a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Fellow of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He was one of the youngest people to have passed the Board at age 31 and, with a specialty in Sleep Disorders, is one of only 163 psychologists in the world with his credentials and distinction.
Dr. Breus is on the clinical advisory board of The Dr. Oz Show and appears regularly on the show. He's been interviewed on CNN, Oprah, The View, Anderson Cooper, and The Today Show.
Dr. Breus is the author of 3 books, Good Night, The Sleep Doctor’s Diet Plan, and his latest, The Power of When which focuses on sleeping to your individual sleep schedule.
For over 14 years Dr. Breus has served as the Sleep Expert for WebMD. He’s been in private practice for 16 years which was recently relocated to LA.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The mystery of sleep
- How caffeine "energizes" you
- Sleeping between 10pm and 2am DOESN'T count for double the sleep hours
- What is your chronotype?
- Can we change our chronotype or are we locked in for life?
- The best time to have sex
- Melatonin is a sleep regulator and not a sleep initiator
- The Sleep Doctor's love for magnesium!
- A banana tea recipe that will improve your sleep
- Is 5-HTP a useful sleep supplement?
- Sleep deprivation, how does it harm you?
- 5 steps for sleeping better
- Consistency of your sleep schedule is everything... this includes weekends
- How sleep is like a baseball game
- Why coffee shouldn't be the first liquid you consume in the morning
- Alcohol can prevent you from getting into the deeper stages of sleep
- The #1 way to improve the quality of your sleep
- The importance of 15 minutes of sunlight first thing in the morning
- Dr. Breus' current evening/nighttime routine
- The best pillow and mattress
- How often should you replace your mattress?
- Never go to bed hungry
- Are saunas, ice baths, or hot showers helpful before sleep?
- Dreams and nightmares, what are they?
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Dr. Michael Breus' website - The Sleep Doctor
Follow Dr. Michael Breus on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Dr. Michael Breus - The Power of When (book)
Dr. Michael Breus - The Sleep Doctor's Diet Plan (book)
Dr. Michael Breus - Good Night (book)
Dr. Michael Breus' free ebooks (including Dreams)
The Power of When quiz - find out your chronotype
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:12.8 | we are welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 116 |
| 0:13.7 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:16.0 | and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:18.8 | Today our featured guest is Dr Michael Bruce, |
| 0:21.6 | a clinical psychologist, and he is known as the sleep doctor. |
| 0:26.0 | He's on the clinical advisory board at the Dr. Oz show and appears regularly on that show. |
| 0:31.9 | He's also been interviewed on CNN, Oprah, The View, |
| 0:35.3 | Anderson Cooper, The Today Show, he's just done a ton of great media. He's the |
| 0:40.7 | author of three books, his first being Good Night. |
| 0:43.4 | His second was the Sleep Doctor's Diet Plan |
| 0:46.1 | and his latest, which is coming out right around the release of this interview, |
| 0:49.8 | The Power of When, which is all about sleeping to your individual sleep schedule. |
| 0:55.0 | For over 14 years, Dr Bruce has served as the sleep expert for WebMD. |
| 0:59.5 | He's been a private practice for 16 years and recently moved that to sunny LA. |
| 1:04.3 | Before we get into the details of today's show I want to share a little bit about |
| 1:09.7 | the incredible weekend that Jesse and I just had at Viamide. So Jesse and I had the chance to go to |
| 1:16.7 | this beautiful resort on the lake just two hours outside of Toronto and it was the perfect |
| 1:22.1 | way to wrap up our summer, spend some time out in nature, which |
| 1:25.3 | were really big advocates for us. |
| 1:27.1 | If you get the chance to do that, take advantage. |
| 1:30.1 | But what we loved about Viamide was that there is so much to do there if you are a young |
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