Ep. 310: Greg Potter - The Science of Sleep

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Cody McBroom

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness:fitness, Nutrition, Fitness

4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is with Greg Potter - Sleep Scientist! Greg has his PhD in circadian biology, sleep, diet and metabolism, while also having his MSc in exercise physiology. In other words, he’s the absolute best person to discuss how sleep improves body comp, productivity, and performance with!

Check him out on twitter and Instagram at @GDMPotter

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COVERED TODAY:

6:37 - How Greg got into the science of sleep

11:20 - The most fascinating or shocking statistic discovered while studying sleep

15:05 - How can people test sleep study theories without a sleep lab?

20:15 - Is there a certain temperature that will help with sleep quality?

24:15 - Caffeine Recommendations

26:55 - What is technically qualified as Sleep Deprivation?

30:50 - The specific number of hours of sleep required

35:30 - Is there anything besides sleep that can make up for a loss of sleep hours?

38:30 - Relating sleep with Performance, Muscle mass and Fat loss

54:25 - Specific recommendations with nutrient timing or macronutrient break downs that lead to better sleep?

1:03:25 - You’re on a plane, flying across the world… You can choose 1 book to read, 1 album to listen to, and 2 people to sit next to you, dead or alive but NOT friends or family… Who are your passengers? What book is in your bag? And what album is in your headphones?

1:08:00 - Where you can find Greg and all of his content

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Boom Boom Performance Podcast, your resource for science-based training and nutrition,
0:07.2	data-driven coaching, and education-focused content. Before we get into this podcast, I just want to say
0:12.9	thank you for taking the time to listen and learn with me so that you can apply what you are
0:17.8	about to learn, take my strategies, use these tools, and finally have
0:21.8	some serious methods to see sustainable success with your physique, your mind, and your life.
0:28.2	This podcast was built on the foundation of applied education, and I'm excited for you to be here
0:34.1	so you can have that experience with me. Now, without any further ado, let's get on to the show.
0:48.3	All right, guys, today, unbelievable episode on the Science of Sleep.
0:57.1	We have the one and only Greg Potter, who has a PhD in circadian biology, sleep, diet, and metabolism, as well as an MSC, and exercise physiology.
1:04.0	On top of that, he is the chief scientific officer for a health startup company that is looking
1:10.3	to create and build a scalable, preventative
1:12.7	health care solution that uses advanced analytics to give users adaptive, personalized health
1:19.1	guidance. I completely read that off of his LinkedIn profile. I'm not going to act like I
1:23.9	memorized that because it is quite complicated, but the reality is this dude is smart. Not only is he smart, he is just a great guy. As I had this conversation with him,
1:32.7	I just realized more and more that he just generally cares. He generally gives a shit about
1:37.0	helping other individuals. So I think you're going to really feel that from him and you're
1:40.8	going to see just how much value and how much information he has to give completely free and he asked for nothing in return. I even tried to get something out of them like,
1:48.6	hey, where do you want people to find your stuff? Where do you want people to follow you? What can people
1:51.5	do to help you? And he's like, no, no, no, no, I don't And we're going to dive deep into the science of sleep.
2:01.1	I've done one episode already with Dr. Amy Bender, diving into the science of sleep.
2:05.2	So this is kind of like the part two of sleep, if you will.
2:08.4	But we're going to dive even deeper into performance, aesthetics, body composition, nutrition,
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