#312: Allison Brager – Sleep Architecture, Chronotypes & Rescuing Performance

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Dr. Allison Brager is a behavioral neurobiologist with an expertise in sleep and circadian rhythms for the United States Army (active duty), as well as their contributions to psychiatric, neurological, and inflammatory disease states. She is currently the Director of Human Performance Operations and Outreach Education at the US Army Warrior Fitness Training Center in Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Her work has examined sleep and activity regulatory mechanisms as well as adaptation and resiliency to environmental stressors such as exercise, jet lag, and sleep deprivation. She consults with US Olympic, collegiate, and professional sporting teams and major police and fire departments (e.g., NYPD, Boston) in preparation for travel and to create sleep friendly environments.

She has served on the Board of Directors of the Sleep Research Society and presently chair a public advocacy committee for the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms. She previously was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as the Chief of the Sleep Research Center at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

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0:00.0	I think we should all be familiar with the fact that sleep quantity and quality are important aspects of both health and performance.
0:10.0	And we've touched on this several times on this particular show before.
0:14.0	But when it comes to sleep quality, there's various different aspects we can look at this from.
0:20.0	One way to examine the quality of sleep that we get is to look at sleep architecture.
0:26.2	So this essentially refers to that structural organization of different stages of sleep that we
0:33.1	move through throughout the night and trying to evaluate what should those stages look like,
0:38.3	how long should we be in them, how do we move through them, and what things can we do to promote
0:44.3	a, let's say, quote unquote, good sleep architecture, and certainly what things should we be
0:49.3	avoiding that would disrupt what our sleep architecture should ideally look like.
0:55.3	These are some interesting questions we're hoping to explore in today's episode,
0:59.8	alongside looking at inter-individual variation within chronotypes,
1:03.9	how that has implications for training and lifestyle schedules,
1:09.9	as well as what tactics and interventions can we use to potentially
1:14.3	rescue some performance, both cognitive and athletic, in cases where we're going to have some
1:20.4	disruption or at least some barriers. So all of that is going to be discussed in this episode of
1:26.3	Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:30.8	So we are at episode 312 of the podcast, and as always, I am your host, Danny Lennon.
1:39.4	Today's guest is Dr. Alison Brager, who is a behavioral neurobiologist with an expertise in sleep
1:46.6	and circadian rhythms for the United States Army, active duty, as well as the contributions
1:53.4	of sleep and circadian rhythms in psychiatric, neurological, and inflammatory disease states.
2:00.3	Currently she's the Director of Human Performance Operations at the US Army Warrior Fitness Training Center in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
2:07.6	And previously, she was a postdoc fellow at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia,
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