Deep Sleep - Dr. Dan Pardi - Neuroscience
Collective Insights
Qualia Life
4.8 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
If there was ever an ultimate sleep episode, this is it.
Dan Pardi, sleep researcher at Stanford and Leiden University and CEO of humanOS.me, an application designed to promote health mastery, is here to unpack the exact science of deep sleep. And even better, how to get more of it.
We discuss sleep stages, sleep physiology, the major causes of sleep loss in our society (think high reward activities and mistimed lighting environments) and the consequences of sleep loss, including decreased purging of toxic substances from the brain and damage to neurons that signal to the brain to stay awake. We also cover:
- The physiological benefits of slow wave sleep
- How sleep impacts eating behaviors and weight gain
- The optimal amount of sleep and the importance of sleep timing
- How sleep regulates the immune system and effects cellular senescence
- Effects of light on circadian rhythms
- Science-backed ways to optimize your “master clock”
- Dan’s favorite routines and products to biohack your sleep
If you’re looking to get the most from your sleep, this episode is for you. If you want even more after listening you’re in luck. This is part one of a two part series. Listen in now.
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| 0:00.0 | We have an incredible ability to withstand many nights of imperfect sleep. |
| 0:06.7 | But if that, if your pattern of living is described by inadequate, disrupted, imperfect sleep, |
| 0:15.8 | then whether it's because of your own doing or because of a sleep condition that you have, |
| 0:21.7 | that is going to really cause a major acceleration of the aging process, the disease process, |
| 0:29.2 | and a diminution of your ability to think robustly for whatever capability you have. |
| 0:37.9 | Collective insights as a voyage through topics and technologies revolutionizing human well-being. |
| 0:43.5 | Groundbreaking approaches for a better world and a better life away you. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome to Collective Insights. |
| 0:51.4 | Welcome to the Neurohacker Collective podcast. |
| 0:55.6 | My name is Daniel Schmockenberger. I'm with Neurohacker Collective podcast. My name is Daniel Schmockenberger. |
| 0:58.6 | I'm with Neurohacker Collective work here in research and development. |
| 1:04.6 | We're very excited to have Dan party with us today talking on the topic of sleep. This is the first of a two-part series we're going to do where we get into the foundations |
| 1:10.2 | of sleep, sleep physiology, |
| 1:11.7 | its effects on psyche, cognitive performance, health, and foundational things to optimize |
| 1:17.0 | sleep. |
| 1:17.9 | Next time we'll be getting into more advanced sleep pathology, sleep physiology, and sleep hacking. |
| 1:25.1 | Dan is a sleep researcher at Stanford and at Leiden University in the Netherlands. |
| 1:32.1 | And he actually did a lot of the groundbreaking work on the effects of GHB on sleep, which is |
| 1:39.0 | really fun. And many interesting things related to health, wellness, biohacking, and the topic of sleep. |
| 1:49.3 | And I think that if you really take the things that we talk about here today and implement |
| 1:56.3 | them, it's probably worth as much or more than everything else that you could do in your |
| 2:01.0 | healthcare combined. So this is just that foundational of a topic. That's why we're doing this |
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