SDP Episode 36: Trouble Sleeping?
Mind Of The Warrior
Dr Mike Simpson
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Tim Kennedy’s legend began at his local Army recruiter’s office on September 12th, 2001. His training to earn his Green Beret was featured in the book “Chosen Soldier.” Kennedy is now a Ranger qualified Special Forces Sniper with deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and multiple other deployments around the world. He is the only soldier to win the grueling 3 day All Army Combatives Tournament three times. Kennedy has a black belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Modern Army Combatives. He is also one of the top ranked mixed martial arts fighters in the world, a position he achieved while simultaneously serving his country at the highest levels of special operations. He is currently ranked among the top Middleweights in the UFC. Tim has been featured on many television shows, most recently “Hunting Hitler” on the History Channel
Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.
Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars with Tim Kennedy on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome back to the sheepdog project Doc with you today flying solo |
| 0:17.6 | Let's talk about what we got upcoming with sheepdog response |
| 0:21.6 | We have a level one and occupational level one |
| 0:25.2 | sheep dog course September 21st through the 23rd in Hoffman |
| 0:28.9 | North Carolina. If you were anywhere in the Carolina area |
| 0:31.2 | make sure you check that out. |
| 0:33.2 | We're going to be in Palm Bay, Florida, |
| 0:34.8 | for an occupational level one |
| 0:36.0 | and a Sotek level one. |
| 0:37.5 | That's the Spectrum of Tactical Emergency Care. |
| 0:40.0 | That is the Trauma Medical Course that I run. That is going to medical course that I run. |
| 0:43.6 | That is going to be the October 8th through 11th |
| 0:46.5 | dates in again and that's in Palm Bay, Florida. |
| 0:49.7 | And coming up right before Shachso in early 2019, January 14th through the 20th, |
| 0:56.0 | the entire sheepdog crew is going to be in Las Vegas, Nevada for a Sotec level one course, |
| 1:01.5 | a Sheepdog level one course, an occupational level one course, and an occupational |
| 1:06.6 | carbon course. |
| 1:08.2 | And there might even be a Jiu-Jitsu seminar thrown in there just for shits and giggles. If that happens I will let you |
| 1:15.6 | know in advance. Make sure you go to sheepdog response.com and you sign up for a |
| 1:20.9 | course near you. We look forward to seeing you there. So what I'm going to talk about today, folks, since it's just me, I get a lot of questions that have to do with diet, nutrition, exercise, what should I be doing about this, about that, |
| 1:36.0 | lifestyle-wise. |
| 1:38.3 | A reoccurring theme in here that comes up a lot is sleep and not as much as it probably should actually because most |
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