378: Kids Sleep, Parents Sleep - We All Need to Sleep! with Craig Canapari, MD

Age Less / Live More

Lucas Rockwood

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🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

My second child has black circles under his eyes in all his photos from birth to age four. He slept as little as possible and willed himself through most days with all the angst and irritability of any insomniac. At age four, he finally started sleeping and quickly became a new person. He learned more, laughed more, talked (a lot) and was a joy to be around. Was it just the sleep? No, but it made a huge difference. No more nervous anxiety in the mornings, no more dark circles, and finally, he seemed to find real moments of peace.

When kids sleep poorly, parents sleep poorly, and the entire health and happiness of the household are affected. When you sleep badly, you’re obviously tired and grumpy, but there are much more worrying long-term effects that can include malformed jaws (in children), weight gain, mood disorders, and cognitive impairment. But what can you do?

Listen & Learn:

How poor sleep decreases leptin (satiety hormone) and increases ghrelin (hunger hormone)
How bad sleep is correlated with hedonistic eating (think Netflix+ Haagen-Dazs binges)
How attachment parenting may not be the best approach for you
Why “cry it out” techniques are not for everyone and not for every stage of development
How to discern what you can and should control and what you should simply let go of

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ABOUT OUR GUEST

Craig is a pediatrician at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital in New Haven, CT, specializing in the care of children with breathing and sleep problems. He is boarded in Pediatrics, Pediatric Pulmonology, and Sleep Medicine. His book, It’s Never Too Late to Sleep Train, is available on Amazon or on his website.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood show. This podcast is really about me scratching my own
0:06.8	itch. I love to learn and so I go out into the world of health and wellness of
0:10.0	movement and mindfulness and meditation, yoga nutrition, and I speak to medical doctors and
0:16.0	yoga teachers and personal trainers and I do my best to find their best work, their best research
0:21.1	and share it with you here on the show and my goal is
0:24.0	that this information this research will help me and you and all of us live a more
0:28.5	helpful more meaningful life. On this week's show we'll be talking about sleep
0:32.1	quality specifically for new parents.
0:34.5	As you may or may not know, I have a new baby in the house, so it's something that's been top of mind.
0:38.4	Coincidentally, I'm sleeping better than I have in a very long time, which it just circumstance but it's something that I've
0:45.2	struggled with on an ongoing basis and it's been a recurring theme on the show.
0:48.8	One thing I've learned from doing this show after hundreds of episodes in all these years is that the
0:54.6	simple truths about health and wellness really come down to the basics, the
0:59.3	fundamentals and that's easier said than done. You know if you go to anybody they'll say you know eat well sleep well
1:04.5	exercise well but what exactly does that mean and defining what good sleep is for you
1:11.1	that's something that is simple in theory but probably more complex in
1:16.9	terms of how you unpack it and a perfect example a case in point is if you're
1:20.3	a new parent so sleep quality is really important you got a new baby in the house. How do you deal with that?
1:24.8	And that's a question that I can't answer, but I can ask good questions and hopefully help you find your own answers as well.
1:31.2	Whether it's mental health, metabolic health, whether it's your
1:34.2	mood, whether it's your cognition at work, everything's really affected by your
1:37.2	sleep quality. And unfortunately there's a bunch of factors that are out of our
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