1637: Five Weird Tricks to Improve Your Sleep
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak with Dr. Michael Ruscio about some unusual ways to improve your sleep.
1637: 5 Weird Tricks to Improve Your Sleep
- Sleep, the #1 thing that can impact your health. (2:09)
- Why your suboptimal respiration quality may be affecting your sleep. (4:07)
- The subtle health effects of poor suboptimal sleep. (6:30)
- Dr. Ruscio’s Order of Operations to improve your suboptimal respiration quality. (10:52)
- 5 Weird Tricks to Improve Your Sleep.
- #1 – Positional change device. (17:08)
- #2 – Oura Ring. (21:37)
- #3 - Mandibular advancement device. (25:24)
- #4 – Mouth taping. (33:30)
- #5 – Didgeridoo instrument. (36:52)
- Is modern life contributing to poor sleep? (38:23)
- Are men more prone to poor sleep? (41:42)
- The culture of caffeine and the impact on your sleep. (42:52)
- Is there a correlation between poor sleep and being a light/deep sleeper? (47:10)
- An option for women to balance out hormones. (51:44)
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- Ruscio Institute for Functional Medicine
- Healthy Gut, Healthy You
- What’s Going On With Sleep Medicine?
- Smart Nora Snoring Solution
- Oura Ring
- WatchPAT
- PRIORITIZE YOUR SLEEP: HOW TO FIX POOR SLEEP HYGIENE HABITS
- Didgeridoos
- The effect of playing a wind instrument or singing on risk of sleep apnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Visit Chili Sleep for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners!
- 6 STRATEGIES TO MAXIMIZE SLEEP EFFICIENCY AND REDUCE DAYTIME SLEEPINESS
- The Surprising Connection Between Coffee and Gut Health
- Epworth Sleepiness Scale | NIOSH | CDC
- Vitex: Benefits, Side Effects, Dosage, and Interactions
- Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube
- Mind Pump Free Resources
Featured Guest/People Mentioned
- Michael Ruscio (@drruscio) on Instagram
- Matt Walker PhD
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Mind Pump, right? |
| 0:19.0 | In today's episode, we had one of our favorite guests, Dr. Ruscio, |
| 0:23.0 | he's a functional medicine practitioner, |
| 0:26.0 | and normally he's been on the show talking about gut health. |
| 0:29.0 | But in today's episode, we talked about sleep. |
| 0:31.0 | Now, you've heard us talk about sleep many, many times, |
| 0:34.0 | and we've told you all the things you could do to benefit your sleep. |
| 0:37.0 | He brought up five things or five weird tricks that actually dramatically improve your sleep |
| 0:44.0 | that are very easy to implement, and we've actually talked about none of them in the past. |
| 0:48.0 | So this is a great episode. |
| 0:50.0 | By the way, if you want to get a hold of Dr. Ruscio, |
| 0:53.0 | or you want to read some of this stuff, and he's got great blogs, great articles, |
| 0:56.0 | he's again, one of our favorite resources for gut health and general health in general, or period, |
| 1:03.0 | head over to RuscioInstitute.com, so that's R-U-S-C-I-O Institute.com, |
| 1:11.0 | and again, this is Dr. Michael Ruscio. |
| 1:14.0 | This episode is brought to you by our sponsor, Viori. |
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