The Science of Sleep and Recovery w/ Dr. Allison Brager, Anders Varner, and Doug Larson #703
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Brager is a subject matter expert in behavioral genetics, sleep, and biological rhythms research.
She is passionate about discovering new factors that promote resilience in extreme environments, particularly for military personnel. She also serves on the NCAA task force for mental health and sleep, contributing to the first edition of the NCAA student-athlete mental health handbook.
She is author of Meathead: Unraveling the Athletic Brain, which debunks the myth of the 'dumb jock' and serves as a performance manual for functional athletes.
Outside of the laboratory, Allison was a two-time CrossFit Games (team) athlete, a two-time CrossFit Regionals (individual) athlete, and a four-year varsity NCAA Division I athlete in track and field. Dr. Brager has an Sc.B. in Psychology from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Physiology from Kent State University.
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| 0:00.0 | Shark Family, this week on Barball Shrugged, we're hanging out with Dr. Allison Brager. |
| 0:04.7 | She is a good friend of ours. |
| 0:05.8 | We've had her on the show many times and she's a total badass when it comes to sleep and recovery. |
| 0:10.2 | And one of the first sleep scientists that I actually met, |
| 0:13.0 | and I was like, dang, the world is sleep was so crazy, |
| 0:16.5 | and I need to get a lot better at it. |
| 0:18.2 | Not just for feeling better on a daily basis, |
| 0:21.0 | having more energy and recovery, but just performance in general. |
| 0:25.7 | Like what happens when you actually go and get consistent, steady sleep, how much better |
| 0:30.8 | you can perform in the gym, and that's what we're going to be digging into today with her. |
| 0:35.0 | As always friends you can head over to rapidhealth report.com that's where Dr. Andy Galpin and Dan Garner are doing a full lab lifestyle and performance analysis in which everybody inside |
| 0:46.0 | RapidHealth optimization will be getting so you can head over to RapidHealth report.com right now, |
| 0:51.6 | friends, let's get into the show. |
| 0:54.8 | Welcome to Marlboro Strag, |
| 0:55.6 | dot Anders Warner, Doug Larson, lesson breaker. |
| 0:58.3 | Yo, what was it like three years ago we had you on here? |
| 1:01.5 | We pre-pandemic talking about, no, in the middle of it. |
| 1:04.9 | It was in the middle of it. |
| 1:06.2 | Yeah, because I was at my in-law's house for the month |
| 1:08.6 | because that was free babysitting. |
| 1:10.1 | And we got to talk all about sleep. |
| 1:12.2 | And that show smashed. |
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