542: Better Sleep, Better Health with Aric Prather

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🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

If you regularly sleep less than six hours a night, you are four times more likely to catch a cold than someone who sleeps longer. But you’re not alone. Around 30 percent of the population suffer from sleep problems of some type, which can affect everything from your mood and hormones, to your immunity and recovery time. This week we meet a psychiatrist and sleep expert who reveals the key to developing better sleep habits.

Listen and learn:

How fewer than six hours of sleep increases your likelihood of getting sick
How circadian rhythm and the homeostatic sleep drive affect your sleep
The effects of alcohol and cannabis on sleep
The common misuse of melatonin

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ABOUT OUR GUEST

Aric Prather is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California. A licensed clinical psychiatrist and self-proclaimed sleep evangelist, he’s the author of the new book, The Sleep Prescription: Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest.

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0:00.0	We can all appreciate a good night's sleep and its benefits for our mental health and
0:07.0	our energy and our mood and our concentration, and we all know sleep is good for you, but
0:11.6	what if we go a little further and define that with some specific metrics?
0:15.4	What if we think about your immune system?
0:17.6	There's new research to suggest that if you're sleeping less than six hours per night, which
0:21.8	happens to me at least once a week, it can make you as much as four times more susceptible
0:26.7	to the common cold that's pretty shocking in terms of your susceptibility.
0:31.2	On this week's podcast, my guest is a psychiatrist and a sleep evangelist who has a new book
0:36.8	out on the subject.
0:37.8	Hopefully his ideas will help you and me sleep better.
0:41.1	If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show.
0:43.0	I'm a yoga teacher and trainer and author.
0:45.0	I'm a serial entrepreneur.
0:46.0	I'm the father of three kids.
0:47.8	Firstly, I'm a student.
0:49.0	So I go out into the world and find people writing books and authors and experts.
0:53.4	In this case, a psychiatrist, I try to bring their best ideas and work here so we can
0:57.4	live more informed lives to support the show, scroll down in whatever app you're listening
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