Ep 521: Sleep Like a Sniper: FBI Dr. Leah Kaylor Wrecks Your Melatonin & Booze Habits

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Education, Special Reconnaissance, Special Operations, Air Force, Pj, Combat Control, Tactical Air Control Party, Self-improvement, Fitness, Selection, Health & Fitness, Pararescue, Special Warfare, Tacp, Government, Assessment And Selection, Cct

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Everybody brags about “grinding” on four hours of sleep—until their brain turns into mashed potatoes. Peaches sits down with Dr. Leah Kaylor, the FBI’s resident sleep assassin, to expose every lie you’ve ever believed about “sleep aids.” From Benadryl brain fog and melatonin overdoses to why your “one beer to chill” actually nukes your REM cycle, this one’s a brutal wake-up call. Leah demolishes the “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” crowd and drops science that’ll make your caffeine...

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0:00.0	Good sleep doesn't happen overnight, especially if you have been a poor sleeper for a long time,
0:04.4	you've had a lot of issues for a long time, and then you listen to this podcast, you read the book,
0:07.9	you're inspired, you're excited.
0:09.3	You can make lots of changes and still have a crap night sleep that night.
0:12.3	It's not because these tips and tricks don't work, it's because it will take a little bit
0:17.4	of time for your body to get used to it.
0:19.7	One's ready!
0:20.7	Go! take a little bit of time for your body to get used to it. One's ready.
0:23.4	Go!
0:30.5	Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Ones Ready podcast. You're in the team room.
0:37.3	Before we get into this next episode with Dr. Leah Kaler, she's a returning guest, also an expert in sleep, and she works at the FBI, and she helps
0:41.6	all those moldoons with their sleeping habits and all that kind of good stuff.
0:45.3	Anyway, before we get into that, would love for you guys to head over to onesready.com,
0:51.6	and I'm going to go there with you as well.
0:53.4	I'm going to see if I can not mess this up. So onesready.com. And I'm gonna go there with you as well. I'm gonna see if I can not mess this up.
0:55.8	So onesready.com, right hand side where it says,
0:58.7	prep, hover over that, and hit partner discounts.
1:02.6	Scroll down until you see it's hackolate.
1:05.6	Now, here's what's great.
1:08.1	I've already linked it for you.
1:09.3	I've done the work for you, okay?
1:12.3	You can hit any of these hyperlinks here and it's going to take you to their site.
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