32. Dr. Kirk Parsley: How To Sleep Like The Dead

The Life Stylist

Luke Storey

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Alternative Health, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

How do you think about sleep? Your favorite part of life? A necessary evil? A waste of precious time? Is it easy for you, or do you find it difficult? Or perhaps you haven't thought about it at all? Maybe it’s just an activity that’s part of your everyday routine, and it holds little value or meaning to you. If the latter be the case, keep on reading. As a matter of fact, keep on reading no matter what the case is. Your body, and more importantly your brain, need high-quality sleep to function optimally.

If you follow medical, or health & wellness trends at all, you might have noticed that the topic of sleep is getting a lot of attention over the past couple years. This is not only by design but also by necessity. We’re quickly learning that as our species is faced with more and more environmental, and social stressors that our need for sleep is becoming increasingly paramount. The quality and quantity of your sleep is perhaps the single most important element of a healthy lifestyle practice, along with diet and exercise.

In this episode, we look very specifically and thoroughly at every aspect of sleep, and most importantly - how to improve yours! The goal of this show is to change not only the way we sleep but the way we look at sleep. It should be considered a necessary daily practice, if not an art form, or even a beloved hobby.

This is a fact-filled interview with one of the world’s leading experts on the subject. I strongly recommend that you give this one a listen, or perhaps a couple listens, and incrementally apply each tool to your personal sleep practice.

Since sleep is something we all need to improve, please take a second to forward this episode to someone you know. Think of how much different the world could be if we weren’t all so terribly sleep deprived.

Thanks for counting sheep with me.

Luke

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0:00.0	The Lifestylist, Episode 32, featuring Dr. Kirk Parsley.
0:11.5	I'm Luke Story, a former celebrity fashion stylist and founder of School of Style.
0:17.5	For the past 20 years, I've been relentlessly dedicated to my deepest passion, designing the ultimate lifestyle based on the most powerful principles of health and spirituality.
0:28.9	The Lifestyleist podcast is a show dedicated to sharing my discoveries and the experts behind them with you.
0:38.3	This is, of course, Luke Story from LukeStory.com,
0:41.7	and today's episode features Dr. Kirk Parsley,
0:44.5	who is a world-renowned expert on all things sleep.
0:48.1	Now, if you've been listening for a while,
0:49.5	you know that we had an episode back on number 16 with Klaus Pummer,
0:53.2	which was also focused on the ancient art of sleep. However, in number 16 with Klaus Pummer, which was also focused on the ancient
0:55.6	art of sleep. However, in the episode with Klaus, we were talking about your sleep environment.
1:00.9	So you're bedding, your bed, the actual space in which you sleep and how to optimize that.
1:06.7	By contrast, in the interview you're about to hear with Dr. Parsley, we talk about the science of sleep.
1:13.4	So the hormone piece, the food piece, why sleep is so important, how many hours do we need,
1:19.8	the dangers of common sleep medications, the possible dangers of melatonin, what are the main
1:25.4	disruptors of sleep, how does sex and orgasm affect our sleep? What are
1:30.4	the best supplements? And do we get strung out on them? Is there any danger of becoming
1:34.3	dependent or addicted to them? What food should we be eating to optimize our sleep patterns? What
1:39.9	food should we avoid? What's the optimal diet for someone who really cares about their sleep?
1:45.3	So this is a topic that is so, so important to me, and it's so crucial. And I remember my
1:50.1	grandmother, May, God rest her soul, who lived until she was 99 years old. And my whole childhood,
1:56.5	my whole early adult years just always harped on me about the importance of sleep. And that was like
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