#310: Meeta Singh, MD – Sleep & Circadian Disruption in Pro Athletes: Dealing With the NBA Schedule

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🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Dr Meeta Singh is a sleep doctor whose work and research focuses on “coaching the sleep muscle” to help maximize performance in both individual athletes and sports teams.

She is the Service chief of the sleep medicine, and section head and medical director at the Henry Ford sleep laboratory in Michigan.

She did her training in psychiatry at the Mayo clinic and a sleep fellowship at the Henry Ford hospital. She is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology as a psychiatrist and sleep medicine sub-specialist.

She has served as a consultant for multiple NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA teams. Dr. Singh performs athletic sleep assessments with personalized prescriptions for better sleep. She also helps sports teams and athletes with their travel management with a focus on addressing sleep deprivation and jet lag and maximizing athletic performance.

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0:00.0	For any of you who have looked at any of the literature around sleep and its importance in athletic performance, injury prevention, and so on,
0:10.0	will be unsurprised to know that it can play a very large role in helping athletes perform at their peak to try and get enough sleep and enough quality sleep.
0:20.1	And thankfully, this is a message that has been pushed more and more in recent years.
0:25.6	And most athletes, both high-level professional athletes all the way down to competitive,
0:32.6	amateur level athletes, are aware of trying to try and make their sleep as best as possible. But what happens in cases
0:41.3	where athletes own schedule plays havoc with their ability to get enough sleep, with the timing of
0:49.5	their sleep, and impacts on their circadian rhythms? One of the most unique challenges we can think about is the schedule that is faced by the NBA
1:00.3	athletes.
1:01.5	So for any of you unfamiliar with basketball in North America and particularly the NBA, they
1:07.4	have an 82 game regular season, and during that time frame, they are averaging about a game every two days, but often with periods of back-to-back games.
1:17.6	And they're also traveling huge distances as their games are taking place all throughout the United States and Canada.
1:25.6	So you can have very frequent air travel,
1:29.3	potentially with that moving across time zones as well,
1:32.3	and that happening very regularly for a prolonged period of time.
1:37.3	So what barriers is this put in place not only for getting enough sleep,
1:41.3	but the timing of that sleep,
1:43.3	the disruption around the optimal setup would have to try and get good sleep,
1:49.0	and then also impacts on circadian rhythms, which are going to impact many biological processes.
1:54.0	This has been one of the challenges that's faced by today's podcast guest, Dr. Mehta Singh, who has consulted for many different professional
2:03.0	athletes and teams across many different sports. And specifically, one of the areas I was
2:08.6	interested in talking to her about was her work with the NBA teams, specifically for this reason
2:13.8	of the unique craziness of their schedule and the challenges it presents. Now, of course,
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