Hey everyone Vancouver Radio episode number no idea doing this advanced who cares

anyway I know you don't care so today one of my favorite topics you know we've

talked about sleep before we've talked about

we've talked about sleep in many contexts in the past and I want to talk to

someone today who works primarily in just sleep.

Yeah, that's all this guy does.

He just looks at sleep, he looks at the athletic population,

works an awful lot in pro sport, huge pedigree behind him in terms of what he does.

So we're going to delve into the science of sleep a little bit today.

Nick Little Hales, hello.

Hello Ben, how are you?

I'm very well, very well and Nick are you well slept today?

I'm actually not Ben you look well slept but I'm now a grandfather of four and two of those came this year so I'm

being a little bit sort of looking after young children again at my age and sleep.

The last night was a little bit rocky because I was doing a bit of baey sitting.

When I talk about sleep online, there's always a couple of parents that will always be

yeah yeah Ben wait till you have kids and that seems to be the one variable that just

screws everything up with sleep. Yeah well, but you know, in sport the area I work in, you do get parents and there are children

around in any sport.

So you do have to try and find techniques and flexible routines that will adapt and change to anybody's lifestyle with your parents with normal occupations or even in elite sport where there's two Olympic athletes who are partners and have got children.

Reast, one would have been Jessica Inst.

So before we go into anything specific, I want to give people a bit of background

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