7 Days to Unlock Your Best Sleep | Dr. Aric Prather
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
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🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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What if you could transform your sleep in just seven days? What if the key to unlocking your best rest lies within a simple yet powerful prescription, tailored by one of the world's leading sleep experts? What if sleep didn’t have to be something you struggle with and, instead, could become a powerful and friendly ally? Well, that’s exactly where we’re heading into today’s conversation as we open your eyes to the wonders of sleep and help you finally experience the restorative snooze time you've been craving.
My guest today is Dr. Aric Prather, a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. In his new book, The Sleep Prescription: Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest, Aric shares the powerful solutions he uses to help patients at his clinic achieve healing and restorative sleep. In this conversation, you'll discover things like:
- How your internal clock plays a crucial role in your sleep quality
- The importance of sleep transition and the activities that can help you wind down effectively
- The surprising impact of blue light exposure on melatonin production, and the myths around it
- Why it's essential to create a "shrine to sleep" and the consequences of not doing so
- How to retrain your brain for better sleep through innovative techniques
- Why you might want to focus more on wake times than bedtimes
- And so much more.
Don't miss this opportunity to gain insight into the mysteries of sleep and unlock the keys to your best rest. Join us as we explore the groundbreaking work of Dr. Aric Prather and learn how you can transform your sleep in just seven days.
You can find Aric at: Website | Twitter
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| 0:00.0 | We don't get enough sleep. Little things feel like big things to us. |
| 0:04.0 | And we're learning that those can have potentially a cost to our well-being. |
| 0:09.3 | And when people are sleep deprived, they're less likely to get exercise, |
| 0:12.9 | less likely to make the right food choices. |
| 0:16.4 | And when they've looked in the brain doing imaging studies, |
| 0:19.6 | it seems like when people are sleep deprived, their brain is driven towards this |
| 0:24.3 | like hedonic reward pathway, meaning that they have this tendency to crave |
| 0:28.8 | and seek out things that are pleasurable, including high fat, high carbohydrate foods, |
| 0:35.2 | which is also really consistent when people are stressed. |
| 0:37.5 | So, you know, kind of this like sleep deprived feeling stressed out, |
| 0:40.0 | which seems to be circular, produces a lot of behaviors that ultimately might undermine our health. |
| 0:45.2 | But there always be ups and downs, right? Like that's a nature of sleep, |
| 0:48.9 | and that's a nature of aging, and it gets harder as we age. |
| 0:52.0 | But it doesn't mean that it can't be better than it is right now. |
| 0:57.6 | So, question for you. What if you could literally transform your sleep in just 70s? |
| 1:04.0 | What if the key to unlocking your best rest lies within a simple yet powerful prescription? |
| 1:10.0 | Tell her by one of the world's leading sleep experts. |
| 1:12.9 | And what if a sleep didn't have to be something you struggle with, |
| 1:16.1 | and instead could become a powerful friend and ally? |
| 1:20.0 | Well, that is exactly where we're heading in today's conversation as we open our eyes to the |
| 1:24.5 | wonders of sleep. Yes, I said wonders of sleep, believe it or not, it can be wonderful, |
| 1:30.0 | and help you finally experience that restorative snooze time that we've all been craving a little |
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