555: How to sleep your way to better health | World sleep expert Fiona Baker, Ph.D.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 25 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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“It's okay that sometimes you don't have the perfect night's sleep,” says Fiona Baker, Ph.D. Fiona, a renowned sleep expert, joins us to discuss how to get the best sleep of your life and shares budget-friendly tips to add to your routine. Plus: -How dreaming affects your mental health (~01:28) -Sleep differences between men and women (~08:56) -How to stay asleep (~10:45) -Sleep rituals for better shut-eye (~15:54) -Sleep issues vs. true insomnia (~18:30) -Why good sleep starts in the morning (~21:50) -Teenagers & sleep (~27:00) -How many hours you should be sleeping (~29:12) -What you should know about water intake and sleep (~36:10) -The link between heart health & sleep (~41:15) -How sleep affects our mental health (~43:10) -Sleep and menopause (~45:07) -The wearables she recommends for sleep tracking(~49:52) Referenced in the episode: -Connect with Fiona online (https://www.sri.com/people/fiona-c-baker/), on LinkedIn -(https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-baker-62753346/), & on X (@FionaCBaker1). -The study on dreams & mental health (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58170-z) -The study on sleep & menopause (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsmc.2018.04.011) -The study on teenagers, screen time, & sleep (https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001251) 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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0:59.3	Today I'm sitting now with Dr. Fiona Baker, a world-renowned sleep expert and the director of the Human
1:04.8	Sleep Research Program at SRI International.
1:07.8	Fiona's expertise spans everything from sleep issues in women and the differences between
1:12.0	how men and women sleep to how sleep impacts your physical
1:14.9	health, longevity and even happiness. But what makes her really stand out, she keeps it simple.
1:21.5	Yep, that's right. Today we're getting back to the sleep basics.
1:25.0	Consider this your budget-friendly guide
1:27.5	to better everyday sleep.
1:29.8	So you recently worked on a study which if I had to summarize essentially showed that
1:40.2	dreaming is a powerful tool to help process our emotions and ultimately great for our mental health.
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