Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast special.

Today you are going to enjoy the company of Mir Krieger, MD, who has the book out called The Mystery of Sleep, subtitle, Why Good Night's Rest is vital to a better, healthier life.

Now, before we get stuck into sleep, how's the greasy coffee diet going, Mark?

Brilliantly, thank you. I've lost a bit. Well, funnily enough, I am sleeping like a baby.

They sleep well, don't they? They do sleep. No, they don't actually. They wake up all the time

and they wee and poo themselves. Are you doing that? Okay, I'm sleeping like a man

who's eating a lot of butter, which is a lot. I'm sleeping really a long time. Okay, getting through

a lot of butter, are you? Oh yeah. The blurb on Mir Krieger's book says Mir Krieger is a professor

in the Yale School of Medicine and editor of the most widely used medicine textbook principles and practice of sleep

medicine he is recognized as a global authority on sleep um we met him we're recording this

afterwards this intro he is amazing he's brilliant and he's lovely as well he was was like, do you know what he knows his stuff?

Oh, he was great.

It is very long, but it's worth it.

I think you're going to learn so much about sleep because I did.

His book is great and when he articulates about sleep it's it's fascinating he tells you about

performance he tells you about basically he tells you why you need your sleep and how to get

it so it's why you should buy his book definitely uh i go through different stages of sleep patterns

um i do i was generally a decent sleep for most of my life then I got, I don't know, life problems

as you do.

We should write into a podcast, Tim.

So I do this.

I ruminate a lot.

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