Hi there, it's Matt here and welcome back to the podcast.

Today is an episode that's going to focus on perhaps the best principles and practices for optimizing your sleep, which is why

it's important for me to state very clearly who this episode is going to be most effective for and who it is not going to be very effective for.

This episode is not designed for people suffering from insomnia. It is not about recommendations that will treat or cure insomnia.

Now don't worry. After this episode episode I'm going to do a very deep dive in fact I'm going to do an

entire mini-series all about insomnia and that will include how clinical practice thinks about the treatment of insomnia.

Instead, this episode is for people who don't have clinical insomnia, but would still like to try and do all they

can to fine tune and optimize their sleep.

Now that's not to say, by way that many of the things I will

describe here are often used as part of the treatment plan for insomnia. But they are only a very, very small part of that

plan and they are by no means sufficient for treating insomnia, not even close.

So today I'm going to go over five, let's say,

conventional tips for optimizing your sleep

that I suspect some of you may have already heard

about before and then I'm going to add five bonus unconventional tips for

optimizing your sleep that you may not have heard about before.

Now I'm not going to simply bark a set of rules at you down this microphone.

That's not helpful.

I'm going to explain them because I firmly believe that people respond to reasons and not rules. So I'm going to take time to try to

unpack the reasons behind each one of these quote-unquote rules as it were.

So let's start with the five one of these quote unquote rules as it were.

So let's start with the five conventional tips

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