A Better Sleep, A Better You—Danny Flood—Hack Sleep: How to Fall Asleep Faster, Increase Your Energy, and Wake Up Refreshed
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
At one point or another we've all dealt with it: being unable to fall or stay asleep, or just waking up feeling absolutely exhausted in the morning, wishing we had the energy to do the things we love. For some of us, these problems are chronic and seriously disrupt our quality of life by leading to failing social lives, poor productivity, and even depression.
Danny Flood was one of those individuals until he decided it was time to do something. He experimented with a variety of tricks and techniques to see what worked best, and then compiled them all into a book so that others could benefit from what he'd learned. He joins the podcast to discuss some of the main highlights of Hack Sleep: How to Fall Asleep Faster, Increase Your Energy, and Wake Up Refreshed, which include the importance of keeping the circadian rhythm in sync (and some tips on how to do so), the role of adenosine and adenosine triphosphate in sleep, biphasic and polyphasic sleep schedules, foods that naturally boost melatonin, and recommendations for power napping.
If you or someone you know is suffering from a lack of sleep, Danny Flood is likely to have at least a few tips that'll help. Tune in for more and look for his book on Amazon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
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| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech and Future Tech Health |
| 0:31.0 | podcast. I have as my guest Danny Flood. He's the author of Hack Sleep. |
| 0:36.0 | Had a fall asleep faster, sleep better, and sleep well. And he's a growth hacker himself and talking to him from Thailand. So for me it's late night for him it's |
| 0:44.7 | noon and you know speaking of sleep I may be going there soon but we're going to |
| 0:49.2 | talk about hacking you. So Danny how you doing?, thanks so much for having me on our podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | I appreciate it. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. So tell me a little bit about your background. |
| 0:57.0 | What got you interested in improving your sleep and hacking your sleep? |
| 1:01.0 | I guess most of the things that I'm interested and things that I do that I offer, solutions I offer to my clients and so forth, are problems that I struggle with myself. |
| 1:11.0 | So I don't know how qualified I am to, you know, I'm not a doctor or anything or I don't have like an |
| 1:17.4 | MBA or anything like that, you know, a PhD or anything like that, but because I can understand the problems that people suffer from and I went through my own |
| 1:26.4 | catharsis where I went through my own, went through the fire and somewhat and came out the other side |
| 1:31.5 | where I was able to fix these problems for myself and help others to |
| 1:35.7 | having some of the problems and especially with sleep that's one of the biggest problems that most people have these days. |
| 1:47.0 | What kind of sleep problems were you having before you started working on them to improve them? Well, I wouldn't say that, like, you know, I'm 100% better now. |
| 1:51.0 | I mean, I still have some of these issues, but I know how to address them you know like |
| 1:55.0 | there's a certain issue that I'm having I know exactly what I need to do but it's quite common |
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