The Key to a Better Night's Sleep | The Sleep Doctor, Dr. Michael Breus

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Michael Breus, a clinical psychologist, better known as the “Sleep Doctor.”

Michael is both a Diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Fellow of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

He was one of the youngest people to pass the Board at age 31 with a specialty in Sleep Disorders.

Michael was also recently named both the Top Sleep Specialist in California by Readers Digest, and one of the 10 most influential people in sleep.

Sleep is critical to just about everything we want to do with our lives and I feel like we’re at a point where more people are starting to realize its importance.

The thing is, there’s a lot of information currently circulating on sleep and it can be tricky sorting out which is the right research to follow.

Michael believes the key to sleep is not necessarily about getting 8 hours a night, but rather understanding how much sleep your body needs and more importantly, what hours of the day your body is primed to function optimally.

This is a fascinating conversation on something every single one of us can relate to.

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0:00.0	Everybody doesn't need more sleep. What everybody needs to figure out is how much sleep do they need.
0:07.0	Right? It's different. Eight hours is a myth, okay? Very few people actually need eight hours of sleep. I go to bed at midnight. I wake up at
0:16.6	6.17 almost every single day without an alarm. I'm the sleep doctor for God's sakes and I get six hours and 15 or so
0:26.2	minutes of sleep. How do you do something like that, Michael? How do you function? Are you
0:30.0	okay? Do you have energy? All of these different things. If my wife got six hours and
0:34.8	15 minutes of sleep, she'd be a disaster. Understanding what your sleep need is
0:39.6	becomes critically important along with things like your chronotype.
0:43.4	Once you know how much sleep you need and when you should be sleeping, chronotype is
0:48.0	early bird or night owl, then everything starts to fall into place actually quite easily.
0:54.3	All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast.
1:05.0	I'm Michael Jervay, and by Trade and Training, a Sport and Performance Psychologist,
1:09.6	and the whole idea behind these conversations behind this podcast, is to sit across from people who have dedicated their life efforts towards mastery.
1:18.0	And we want to understand what it is that they are searching for, what they're craving, what are they
1:23.3	dedicating the life toward, is it mastery of self, is it mastery of craft, is it both.
1:27.9	We want to understand how did they organize their inner life, how did they explain things in their life? How do they use their mental skills to build and refine their craft?
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