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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Temperature Hacking for Better Deep and REM Sleep – Matteo Franceschetti : 879

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

Education, Diet, Meditation, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Self-improvement, Brain, Fasting, Fat, Fitness, Hacking, Wellness, Science, Biohacking, Health & Fitness

4.67.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™…

you’re going to learn a bunch of brand new sleep hacks, taken from over a million nights of sleep data. 

Those hacks will come from my guest Matteo Franceschetti. 

Matteo defines high performance—having been a professional skier, high-level tennis player, competitive race car driver and practicing lawyer. He didn’t get much sleep doing all those things, so he co-founded Eight Sleep and set out to create and advanced sleep improvement device so he, and everyone else, could sleep better and perform better.

We can all agree: “Sleep is a pillar, a fundamental pillar for your health,” Matteo says.

Eight Sleep tracks biomarkers that measure your sleep quality. Then it uses machine learning to make automatic adjustments to your sleep environment. This helps you optimize your sleep, get the reset and recovery your body needs, and well, wake up feeling better than you have in years. 

Best of all, you don’t actually have to do anything. You just go to sleep, exactly like you did last night, and the technology does all the sleep hacking for you. 

TIME Magazine named Eight Sleep one of its “Best Inventions” of both 2018 and 2019, and Fast Company listed it as one of the most innovative companies of 2018. They’re a sleep hacking company making big inroads into understanding and regulating your body’s temperatures while sleeping. This affects your REM sleep the most.

“While you are in REM your brain deactivates all the temperature controls in the body,” Matteo explains. “It doesn't let you fall into REM if it's too hot or too cold because you could potentially die. Changing the temperature based on your sleep stages and the different stages of the night is fundamental to maximize your deep and REM stages.”

And Eight Sleep has a fix for that.

“Based on your sleep stages and based on your biometrics, we adjust your body temperature during the night,” Matteo says. “It's not that we are inventing the wheel. Your body is already changing temperature during the night. It's part of your physiological process. We just enhanced that process to maximize your sleep performance.”

And then I wanted to know, “How many hours of sleep per night do you think you can save people, by just changing temperature?” The point isn't necessarily to get less sleep, but it's to live more. Right? If you just got everything you needed and it was as good as what you have today, but you had enough time to do two hours of reading or learning every day or meditating or parenting or whatever else, it's not about working more necessarily. It's just about living more. 

It’s exciting to talk to Matteo because he brings a whole bunch of new biohacking ideas to the table, er bed. He and I get into a bunch of sleep topics during this conversation, including:

  • How you can instantly increase your deep sleep by 40%, starting tonight


  • How you can reset your energy levels in the morning just by regulating your sleep temperature at night


  • How you can compress sleep down to 5-6 hours a night, while actually getting more rest and recovery


  • Why sleep consistency matters (and is still the hardest thing for people to do, well, consistently}


  • Why machine learning is the future of personalized health


If your sleep could use an upgrade, check out this episode for hacks you can implement right away and learn about what’s next in sleep technology. 

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