So there's no doubt you've heard about the importance of sleep for our health and the detrimental impacts of not getting enough sleep or enough quality sleep can have on various aspects of our health.

And certainly even on this podcast, we've discussed all sorts of stuff around sleep physiology, sleep architecture, how we can try and use various things to improve our sleep

hygiene that would lead to better quality sleep and so on. However, sleep is not just a set of

physiological processes, but sleep is also socially driven, and it's dictated by the environment

and is subject to interpersonal and

sotile factors. And so on today's conversation with Dr. Michael Grander, we're going to dig into

all these various aspects of how at a societal level, at a social level, and then also at an individual

level, our sleep duration and quality

gets influenced and look at some of these aspects around health disparities within the population,

things like racial discrimination, and how these things can filter down and impact sleep

that brings it beyond this simplistic personal responsibility narrative.

We're also going to dive into some of his work around mental health and sleep and look at the

different areas in which both of those things are affected by one another.

So that's all to come on this conversation.

You are of course listening to Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am your host, as always,

Danny Lennon, and this is episode 316 of the podcast, which means you can get these show notes,

including a transcript and links to any research that we mentioned in today's episode over at

sigmautrition.com slash episode 316.

And as I mentioned previously, today's guest is Dr. Michael Grander, who is absolutely

amazing in some of the work that he's published and the way he articulates and communicates

some of those findings. As you'll see in a moment, is incredibly

impressive. Dr. Gradner is the director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University

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