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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

2245: Fix Your Sleep & Balance Your Hormones With Dr. Kirk Parsley

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 127 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

  • His background and how he got into what he is doing today. (2:01)

  • The startling effects of Ambien on special operators. (19:17)

  • Shifting the culture through his private practice. (26:33)

  • "If you're not sleeping well, you're not repairing or preparing for tomorrow." (33:22)

  • The best treatments to decrease brain inflammation. (41:19)

  • The demonization of psychedelics. (45:15)

  • How did he get introduced to peptides? (1:01:28)

  • We evolved to sleep. (1:03:09)

  • Can you develop cortisol resistance? (1:07:50)

  • What is causing the gradual decrease in men's testosterone? (1:17:57)

  • Peptides for better sleep. (1:20:29)

  • His stress-free checklist for improved sleep. (1:25:17)

  • The badest Seal he ever met and why. (1:37:12)

  • The characteristics of a stellar Navy Seal. (1:40:04)

  • Switching his resentment to a superpower. (1:43:38)

  • His first experiences with psychedelics. (1:47:11)

  • Not repeating the cycle of his parents with the raising of his children. (1:53:28)

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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

Mind Pump with your hosts.

0:09.0

Sal de Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. You just found the most downloaded fitness

0:14.9

health and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump. Today's episode we had a lot

0:19.8

of fun. We talked to a retired Navy SEAL Dr. Kirk Parsley. He's an expert on sleep,

0:27.0

expert on longevity, hormone therapy. He wrote a book, it's an incredible book called

0:31.3

Sleep To Win,

0:32.8

how Navy SEALs and other high performers stay on top.

0:36.1

By the way, you can find them on Instagram

0:38.1

at Kirk Parsley, so it's at K I R K, E Y, you'll find it on Instagram.

0:47.0

By the way, this episode is brought to you by a sponsor.

0:50.0

Eight Sleep, they make a device that rests on your bed uses AI technology to optimize your sleep.

0:55.4

Now this is by far the most advanced sleep system on the market.

1:00.4

Okay, so it controls the temperature of your bed, but it also monitors your sleep

1:04.9

cycles, modifies them so you have individualized temperature that adjusts throughout the night

1:10.4

to optimize your sleep. There's nothing like this on the market, it's incredible.

1:13.2

Go check them out, get yourself a discount. Go to 8 sleep.com, that's 8 e I G.H.T sleep.com

1:20.4

forward slash mind pump, get yourself $200 off plus free shipping. We're also running a sale

1:26.8

this month. It's January. A lot of you were getting started on your fitness journey

1:30.3

so this is always one of the biggest sale months of the year for us.

1:34.0

So here's what we did.

1:35.0

We put together four workout program bundles

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