896 The Science of Sleep for Ultimate Success with Shawn Stevenson

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.8 • 22K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

NEW DECADE, NEW SLEEP GOALS. So often we glorify not getting enough sleep. We brag about pulling an all-nighter. We “grind” or wake up at the crack of dawn. Some of us think that staying up is helping us achieve our dreams. But sleep is key to our mental and physical health. It even keeps us young. So why do so many of us put quality sleep on the back burner? On today’s episode of The School of Greatness, I talk about sleep with a bestselling author on the subject: Shawn Stevenson. Shawn Stevenson is an author of “Sleep Smarter” and creator of The Model Health Show, featured as the #1 Health podcast in the country on iTunes. A graduate of The University of Missouri - St. Louis, Shawn studied business, biology and kinesiology, and went on to be the founder of Advanced Integrative Health Alliance, a company that provides wellness services for individuals and organizations worldwide. Shawn says that often we look at sleep as something we should sacrifice to be more present for other people and our goals. But the word sacrifice actually means “to make sacred.” We need to make sleep a sacred practice that heals our body and mind. So get ready to learn how and why you should have more restful sleep on Episode 896. Some Questions I Ask: What is sleep? (16:00) How bad is sugar for sleep? (28:00) What does the research say about eating before sleep (32:30) What is the optimal evening routine? (52:30) What is the optimal amount of hours of sleep? (1:07:00) In This Episode You Will Learn: The four stages of sleep (19:00) Why you need sleep to produce Human Growth Hormone (21:00) About the REM Rebound Effect The relationship between sleep and aging (40:00) How the body receives melatonin (47:00) Hacks for using technology while preparing for sleep (57:30) Why you should keep your room cold when you sleep (1:02:00)

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0:00.0	This is episode number 896 with the sleep doctor Sean Stevenson.
0:07.8	Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Louis Howe's former pro athlete
0:13.2	turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message
0:18.8	to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today.
0:24.7	Now let the class begin.
0:30.8	Who to said to keep the body and good health is a duty. Otherwise we shall not be able to keep
0:38.6	the mind strong and clear. My friends welcome to this episode. I am pumped because
0:45.8	man I used to sleep in like crazy when I was a kid. I don't know if you were like me where you
0:50.1	slept into like 10 11 12 1 pm sometimes and your mom would scream at you and rip the covers off
0:56.9	your bed and say wake up get up it's time to get up. My mom used to do that to me all the time
1:02.5	but there's something that she had wrong because she didn't know the power of sleep and sleep
1:09.6	science and the key to actually allowing your mind to be clear allowing your body to heal with the
1:16.8	optimal sleep. Now she didn't know I was staying up late she didn't know how much sleep I was
1:21.2	actually getting. She just thought I needed to get up at a decent time and I would usually stay
1:26.1	up too late. I was up to like 1 2 3 am a lot of those times and what I realized is that
1:34.7	I didn't have great sleep patterns growing up. I wish I had better patterns. Some years I would
1:40.9	sleep a lot and I remember those years being the most productive in sports and the most alert in
1:46.9	school which was already hard for me to do because I struggled in school I was in the special
1:51.2	needs classes and it was hard for me to retain information in books but this is all about the
1:58.0	science of sleep and I'm telling you sleep is everything if you want to get if you want to burn
2:03.1	fat if you want to be smarter if you want to remember more if you want to look younger we're
2:09.1	going to talk about the science of all of this and how Sean Stevenson dives into explaining this
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