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The Evan Brand Show

Dan Pardi: How Sleep Really Works and How Common Drugs Impact Sleep

The Evan Brand Show

Evan Brand, BCHN, FNTP

Health & Fitness

4.8810 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2013

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Dan Pardi is a sleep researcher, speaker and founder of Dan's Plan, a comprehensive plan to help fitness, lifestyle and stress levels in your daily life. Today, we discuss the hormones that are affected by sleep and why this is important to know about. We also talk about drugs and their influence on sleep such as caffeine and alcohol. We finish talking about the way you can shape your light environment and how you can beat seasonal depression with the use of Evan's favorite light box hack.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody.

0:07.0

Hey everybody. This is Evan Brand, the host of Not Just Paleo. Welcome to the show.

0:23.2

Wherever you're tuning in around the world, I'm really happy that you're with me.

0:27.3

If you are a first-time listener to the show, then welcome.

0:30.7

I urge you to go check out the other two episodes that I've done on sleep with Dr. Richard Hansler.

0:36.8

And that will give you kind of a precursor to

0:39.9

get into some of the information on this podcast, or, you know, you don't have to do that.

0:44.8

You could just jump straight into this podcast and get a lot of benefit from it, too.

0:48.9

We're talking with Dan Party, and he is the founder of Dan's plan, and met him back at paleo fx and he actually spoke

0:56.4

uh on a bunch of different panels on sleep he's very passionate about sleep just as i am and talk

1:03.4

we get to talk about artificial light again and basically how your entire hormonal system is kind of run

1:10.3

by sleep and are circadian cycles.

1:13.9

And so I think another guess, it might have been Dr. Cruz, he might have talked about that,

1:19.2

how hormones basically run on a cycle.

1:22.2

And, you know, of course, that's a known fact for women, but for men too.

1:27.4

I mean, our hormones go through cycles and light

1:31.2

plays a role in them seasonality plays a role and so we get into those factors today but i just

1:37.6

wanted to say thanks for all your all support lately it's been really good to hear from you all each

1:43.0

week and i'm doing a fun podcast coming up.

1:47.2

You'll get to hear it in a couple weeks when it gets finished.

1:50.7

One of our fans from the Philippines reached out to me and said, Evan, we want to get your take on some of these topics.

1:58.5

And it's a pretty common theme.

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