193 Dr. Chris Winter - The "Sleep Whisperer" on How to Improve your Confidence and Reliability of Sleep
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Matt welcomes Dr. Chris Winter back to the podcast to revisit our most potent performance enhancer, the secret to fitness improvement, heightened focus and clarity, better resilience and immune system, and a promise to the enhancement of your overall health.
Today, Matt and Dr. Winter present your ultimate guide to sleep and help unpack the mystery of sleep. Key takeaways:
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His role as a Neurologist and Sleep Scientist - to improve your confidence and reliability of sleep
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Tools in his toolbox to help patients - behavior change, medications, C-Pap, etc.
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The Physiology of Sleep - What's happening to our body and brain when we sleep?
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The detrimental effects on our body and brain when we rob ourselves of adequate sleep
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Positive yields when you improve your sleep
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Why you shouldn't judge success by the number of hours you sleep
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What are some of the common sleep mistakes?
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Dr. Winter's recommendations and an action plan on sleep hygiene
0:00-04:00 Welcome and Episode Introduction
03:40-10:20 Squaddie Update and a word from our sponsor, Inside Tracker - "So You Want to Do Your First IRONMAN" - Live webinar with Matt Dixon
10:20-12:15 Word of the Week - Strength
12:30 The Meat and Potatoes - A Discussion on Sleep with Dr. Chris Winter
About Dr. Chris Winter
Dubbed "The Sleep Whisperer" by Arianna Huffington, Dr. Winter has been involved in the field of sleep medicine for twenty-five years. A fully board-certified neurologist and double board-certified sleep specialist, Dr. Winter has been helping individuals sleep better through his private clinic, group consultations, work with professional athletes, and dynamic media presence. His first book, The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep Is Broken and How To Fix It has received high praise both in the United States and internationally as a fresh and effective approach to a growing problem.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and |
| 0:05.8 | educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, |
| 0:11.4 | you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere |
| 0:17.2 | integrate sport into life. And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host, Matt Dixon. |
| 0:25.5 | And today we revisit our most potent performance enhancer, the secret to fitness improvement, |
| 0:34.5 | heightened focus and clarity, better resilience and immune system, and a promise |
| 0:40.0 | to enhancement of your health. That sounds good, doesn't it? But ladies and gentlemen, it's not |
| 0:47.1 | on sale on Amazon. No, it is sleep. And we treat you today to part one of a special two-parter, your ultimate |
| 0:58.7 | guide to sleep. And who better to lead us than Dr. Chris Winter, one of the preeminent sleep |
| 1:04.8 | experts in the world. And if you don't know Chris, well, I'm going to tell you a little bit |
| 1:09.6 | about him. And it's something worth me pulling from Wikipedia for some of this. |
| 1:13.8 | But first of all, I want to set the stage. |
| 1:16.0 | Chris is a neurologist and he leads the Charlottesville Neurology and Sleep Medicine Center |
| 1:21.7 | in Charlottesville, West Virginia. |
| 1:24.4 | On top of that, Dr. Chris Winter is an American sleep researcher. |
| 1:28.3 | He's a neurologist, author, and an absolute authority regarding sleep and athletic performance. |
| 1:35.3 | In fact, an article in 2010 in Trail Runny Magazine described him as the leading expert in the field of sleep disruption in athletes and issues related to travel. |
| 1:46.3 | And why is that? That's because he is credited with the term circadian advantage. |
| 1:53.7 | He did a lot of research on the effects of travel on major league baseball teams. |
| 1:58.7 | And he studied the effect of sleep timing preference, |
| 2:02.8 | pitcher performance, hitting performance, and his research actually linked the sleepiness of |
| 2:09.7 | major league baseball players to a reduced career longevity. Goodness me. It becomes really, |
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