[Circadian Rhythm] How to Optimize Your Internal Sleep Clock w/ Dr. Greg Potter, Anders Varner, and Doug Larson #708
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Potter values helping people feel great and do good.
He knows how hard it can be to thrive nowadays, and lots of us try our best to understand what we should be doing to look better, perform at a high level, and be happy and well.
But, achieving this is often elusive, for many aspects of modern life — grueling work schedules, fast food, physical inactivity, social isolation, pollution and so on — are at odds with the behaviors and conditions our bodies need to function optimally.
Let's be honest: There's a lot of nonsense about health out there too!
Dr. Potter helps empower people to make simple and sustainable lifestyle changes that add years to their lives and life to their years.
To this end, here are some of his qualifications:
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He did my undergraduate and master's degrees in exercise science at Loughborough University
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His PhD research at the University of Leeds focused on sleep, circadian rhythms, nutrition, and metabolism.
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He is qualified as a personal trainer and sports massage therapist and have worked as a coach for over a decade..
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| 0:00.0 | Shark Family this week on Barbell Shrug, we are talking to Dr. Greg Potter, which is super |
| 0:06.0 | cool because we're talking about sleep, but most of the time when we talk about sleep performance, |
| 0:09.7 | we don't actually ever get into kind of like your body's sleep clock and understanding |
| 0:13.6 | circadian rhythms why they exist how we can optimize them and that's exactly what we do |
| 0:17.6 | today and it's super cool because I'm very interested in circadian rhythms especially |
| 0:21.2 | the more that I track my sleep and kind of understanding |
| 0:24.4 | what's optimal specifically for me. |
| 0:27.1 | And we dig into a lot of understanding just why circadian rhythms exist, how you can use that to optimize your sleep, and then ways that you |
| 0:35.8 | can just start to program your day from getting morning light, which is good for some people, |
| 0:39.7 | not for some people, getting outside during the day, night time, |
| 0:43.3 | bed routines, and all kinds of fun stuff related |
| 0:46.1 | to your body's sleep clock. |
| 0:48.2 | As always, friends, you guys can get over to RapidHealth report.com. |
| 0:51.6 | That's where Dan Garner and Dr. Andy Galpin are doing a |
| 0:54.3 | free lab lifestyle and performance analysis that everybody inside Rapid Health |
| 0:58.5 | optimization will receive. That is over at Rapid health report. Come. |
| 1:03.0 | Friends, let's get into the show. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, welcome to Marvall Shrug. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Anders Marner, Doug Larson, |
| 1:08.0 | Dr. Greg Potter on the show today. |
| 1:11.0 | Yo, we're going to talk about circadian rhythm, sleep, that's what your PhD is in, and metabolism has how it relates to sleep. |
| 1:19.0 | But pre-show, I had cut you off because you've been in the sonna a a lot and then you went on like a dark chocolate rant and all the toxic. |
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