How to Get The Most From Your Sleep Cycle | Dan Pardi on Health Theory

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🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week’s guest on Health Theory is Dr. Dan Pardi. Dr. Pardi is a sleep specialist, the CEO of humanOS.me and helps people engineer healthier behaviors. In this episode he talks about how to optimize your behaviors for health, the importance of sleep, and why we get fat. SHOW NOTES How Dan's father's cancer inspired his career [01:22] How to take over your behaviors [02:47] The importance of sleep [08:07] Daytime strategies to improve your sleep [12:19] What your body fat is really up to [14:30] The mechanisms that burn body fat [20:10] What drives our food intake [23:56] Why your decision making capabilities are diminished after a night of poor sleep [28:57] The metabolic impacts of little sleep [32:23] Why exercise may not have the effect on weight we thought it did [34:18] How to lose 100 pounds [37:18] The role of cold and heat exposure for our health [38:55] Is GHB the perfect drug for Alzheimer's? [42:53] FOLLOW DAN WEBSITE: https://www.humanos.me/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/danielpardi/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Health Theory.
0:01.7	Today's guest is Dan Pardee.
0:03.6	He's a sleep researcher at Stanford who received his doctorate
0:06.5	from Laden University, one of the oldest
0:09.0	and most prestigious universities in the world.
0:11.9	He's got a very holistic approach to wellness
0:14.1	and his areas of expertise include sleep,
0:16.8	optimizing cognitive performance and high performance in general,
0:19.9	as well as the role of diet, exercise, and fasting
0:23.2	on our overall health and well-being.
0:25.2	Additionally, he's the CEO of Human OS,
0:28.4	a company aimed at giving people an optimized operating system
0:32.0	for healthy living.
0:34.1	Now, the place I want to start, this whole idea of the OS
0:36.8	for healthy living is really interesting to me,
0:38.8	but the thing I'm most fascinated by is that it started
0:41.6	with your dad's battle for cancer.
0:43.4	Yeah.
0:43.9	So walk us through that.
0:45.3	How did that inform what you're doing now?
0:47.6	Yeah, that's a, it's one of the points
0:51.5	that caused a refocusing, remotivation,
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