138: Dr. Kirk Parsley: The Power Of Sleep
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2016
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Sleep and hormones. What's the connection?
- Do we need "evolutionary medicine"?
- Are sleeping pills really that bad for your health?
- Why people are resistant to the "sleep message"
- Sleep deficit: The performance killer
- Why sleep isn't a luxury
- How lack of sleep can cause you to gain weight
- Why you can't "biohack" sleep loss
- The #1 key to getting a good night of sleep
- The best sleep app
- Using sleep tracker apps to help you sleep better
- Healthcare vs disease-care
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| 0:00.0 | You've heard me say that there's no exercise you can do. |
| 0:07.3 | You've probably heard me say that there's no exercise you can do, |
| 0:10.8 | there's no diet you can follow, and there's no supplement that you can take |
| 0:14.8 | that can make up for poor quality sleep. |
| 0:18.7 | According to the CDC, more than one quarter of the U. report occasionally not getting enough sleep while nearly 10% experienced chronic insomnia. |
| 0:30.0 | And we know that insufficient sleep is associated with a number of chronic diseases and conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, depression, dementia, Alzheimer's, low testosterone, the list goes on. |
| 0:47.6 | And that's why I'm very excited to introduce you to today's guest. His name is Dr. Kirk Parsley and he is a big advocate of sleep and the power of high quality sleep to optimize our health and performance. |
| 1:06.2 | Another thing that's fascinating about Dr. Kirk Parsley's background |
| 1:10.4 | is that he was a Navy SEAL and ended up working with the SEALs as a doctor |
| 1:17.1 | specializing in how to optimize their health and he's going to share with you what |
| 1:22.3 | he found wrong with some of the seals and as you |
| 1:26.1 | probably know the Navy SEALs are one of the most elite if not the most elite force |
| 1:31.9 | on the planet. |
| 1:33.4 | And he's going to share with you how working with the SEALs and some of the problems they |
| 1:38.0 | experience because of their high stress jobs and missions that they go on led him to learning about hormones, learning |
| 1:46.9 | about how sleep affects hormones and learning about how to optimize health because sleep forms one of the four pillars of health in Dr. Kirk Parsley's |
| 1:59.7 | Evolutionary Medicine approach and he's going to explain to you what evolutionary medicine is |
| 2:05.0 | is, how he got into this whole idea of merging ancient wisdom |
| 2:10.0 | with cutting edge technology to help people feel, perform, and look their best. |
| 2:17.1 | So enjoy this interview with Dr. Kirk Parsley. Dr. Kirk Parsley, |
| 2:29.0 | Dr. Kirk Parsley, |
| 2:30.0 | welcome to the Legendary Life Podcast. |
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