539: How to achieve the best sleep of your life | Jade Wu, Ph.D., DBSM, board-certified behavioral sleep medicine psychologist

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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“Broad-spectrum light exposure is the strongest and best kept secret for good quality sleep," says Jade Wu, Ph.D. Jade, a board-certified behavioral sleep medicine psychologist, joins us to discuss how to solve every sleep issue, plus: - Jade’s sleep hygiene tips (~00:41) - How to know if you have sleep apnea (~02:20) - How many people actually have insomnia (~07:45) - What to do if you can’t fall asleep (~09:47) - What to do if you wake up in the middle of the night (~13:38) - How performance anxiety relates to sleep (~17:30) - Jade’s research on CBT, sleep & cardiovascular health (~18:16) - How to nap responsibly (~21:32) - How to define quality of sleep (~26:21) - How air quality impacts your sleep (~32:28) - Time in nature & sleep quality (~37:14) - Jade’s POV on daylight savings (~39:50) - Why we should pay more attention to nightmares (~42:39) - The best types of white noise for sleep (~44:46) - Why sleep regularity is more important than duration (~47:08) Visit mindbodygreen.com/SLEEP25 and use code SLEEP25 to get 25% off sleep support+. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Referenced in the episode: - Jade's book, Hello Sleep - SnoreLab - mbg Podcast episode #453, with Aric Prather, Ph.D. - Sign up for Jade's SleepRight study - Follow Jade on Audible - A study on the importance of sleep regularity We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
0:07.0	This week's show is sponsored by our best-selling Sleep Support Plus supplement.
0:12.0	Our science-backed formula helps you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up feeling rejuvenated.
0:19.0	Look, I never knew how good sleep could be until I started taking our product.
0:27.0	Now it is a non-negotiable for Colleen and I as we take it every single night.
0:32.4	So now's the time to upgrade your sleep. Just go to
0:36.3	my buddy green.com slash sleep 25 and use the code sleep 25 sleep 25% off your first month's subscription.
0:47.0	Sweet dreams and enjoy the show.
0:49.0	Sleep. We all do it, but very few of us sleep exceptionally well, which is why we have
0:59.1	Dr. Jade Wu on the show to help you achieve the best night sleep of your life.
1:04.0	Even if you don't really suffer from a sleep issue, I bet you never knew sleep could be
1:09.2	so good. Jude is a board certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist who completed her
1:15.2	PhD at Boston University and her medical psychology residency and clinical fellowship at Duke
1:21.6	University School of Medicine.
1:23.2	Her research focuses on treating sleep disorders in those with chronic illness
1:27.4	and she also serves as a reviewer for top tier scientific journals.
1:31.9	And in today's episode episode Jay drops her knowledge on how to solve every
1:36.3	sleep issue like insomnia, sleep deprivation, sleep apnea which more people have than you know and more.
1:44.0	Plus her must have tips for proper sleep hygiene and common sleep myths you need to know. So in terms of setting ourselves up for a good night's sleep, I tend to think of getting
2:01.7	some morning sunlight, having a caffeine cut off time turning off
2:07.2	electronics not watching disturbing TV like the evening news, sleeping in a dark and cool room, having at least a three hour
2:19.2	gap between dinner and bedtime, also not having a huge meal at bedtime.
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