Dr Jeffrey Durmer | Sleep Like a Champ

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🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sleep doesn’t usually come to mind when people think about fitness. But after Jeffrey Durmer, MD, PhD, noticed the lack of sleep support when he was an elite athlete, and again when his daughters were national-level swimmers, he decided to take the research into his own hands. Now, as a neurologist, systems neuroscientist and sleep-medicine physician, Dr. Durmer is that support for today’s top athletes. Through his work with the NFL and the USA Weightlifting team for the 2021 Tokyo games, he’s shown how simple tactics like sleep banking can make a serious impact on performance. But above all, he’s shown that sleep is recovery, and no training routine is complete without enough of it. On this episode, he gets specific about why sleep is essential to our physical and psychological health, tells us how to know whether we’re really getting as much as we need and sets us all up for a more alert tomorrow.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up guys? This is Kalemak Brod, 3 time WMA All-Star, and you're listening to
0:05.6	Train, Body and Mind, Ground Friends, and Be a Force.
0:09.4	Oh hello, welcome to Train Body and Mind, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic
0:14.2	fitness. I'm your host Jacqueline Byer. Each episode I connect with the world's leading
0:19.5	experts and athletes to talk about mindset, movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep. What
0:24.9	we like to call the five facets of fitness.
0:27.6	Today, I'm talking with a doctor who can help you bump your PRs, making more productive
0:32.0	at work, and lower your anxiety overnight.
0:39.4	Start to consider sleep not as the end of your day, but as the beginning of tomorrow.
0:44.4	Everything you're doing, laying out your clothes, whatever you're preparing for tomorrow.
0:48.4	So think about that when you're thinking ahead and integrating this into your plan for
0:54.3	your training. Sleep should be a plan in your training.
0:58.6	That's Dr. Jeffrey Dürmer, a board certified sleep medicine physician and scientist. He's
1:03.4	become well known for consulting with athletes on how to optimize their shut eye, including
1:07.6	members of the Atlanta Falcons and the USA Weightlifting Team.
1:11.5	I know what you're thinking. You've heard all the sleep advice before, but trust me, unless
1:16.2	you've been coached by Dr. Dürmer, you haven't.
1:19.5	He was also a US national level rower, so he comes at this from an athlete's perspective.
1:24.1	And what he's saying is that sleep is actually part of training. We need it for stamina,
1:29.5	performance, and the mental drive to achieve our personal best. It can even make a difference
1:34.5	in how fast we bounce back from injuries.
1:37.2	But solid sleep isn't just critical for elite athletes, and the stats show that a big chunk
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