#237 Get Better Sleep with Dr David Garley
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
I’m always on the search for better sleep. I’ve tried supplements, better pillows, meditations but there always appears to be a day or 2 in my week where I don’t sleep well. And on the one hand, I was pleased to find out that that’s about average and that’s not particularly abnormal, but I still want better sleep.
Today, Dr David Garley is on the podcast, he works as a GP in Bristol and is director of The Better Sleep Clinic. He treats a wide range of sleep disorders, mainly working with insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea and sees first hand the impact that poor sleep can have on physical and mental health. But he also started his medical career in respiratory medicine, that we get into at the start of the podcast.
We talk about:
- Warning signs of poor sleep and its detriment to lifespan
- The systems that control sleep
- How we can manage jet-lag
- The effect of light on circadian rhythm
- What to do when you can’t sleep
- Whether sleep supplements are worth it
- And if there is a diet for sleep?
Full of practical information, you’re going to love this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors Kitchen. |
| 0:03.0 | Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:05.0 | And another big thing that people do often is chat to family members in the evening. |
| 0:11.0 | And a lot of people have quite strained family relationships and the |
| 0:14.4 | evening is usually the conventional time for having these conversations but it can |
| 0:17.6 | put you into quite an agitated state of mind so you obviously do need to have these |
| 0:21.9 | conversations but perhaps trying to restructure your day so you obviously do need to have these conversations but perhaps trying to |
| 0:23.5 | restructure your day so you can do these earlier on means that you're not wound up |
| 0:28.0 | when you're trying to get into bed. Okay so no conversations about finances or you know who's cooking Christmas dinner. |
| 0:35.0 | Absolutely Christmas dinner that should be yeah that's enemy number one. |
| 0:39.0 | Okay. We needed a washing machine the other day and I was in bed just browsing washing machine. |
| 0:44.0 | You're just stressing me out. |
| 0:46.0 | Stressing me out, so that is not something you should do in the run-up to bed. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen Podcast, the show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to |
| 0:59.9 | improve your health today. I'm Dr. Rupi your host. I'm a medical doctor. I study |
| 1:07.2 | nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 1:17.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 1:25.0 | I am always on the search for better sleep. |
| 1:31.0 | I've tried supplements, better pillows, meditations, but there |
| 1:36.1 | always appears to be a day or two in my week where I don't actually sleep well. |
| 1:40.7 | And on the one hand I was pleased to find out that that's about |
| 1:45.4 | average and that's not particularly abnormal but I still want better sleep. And so |
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