The Sleep Scientist (NEW RESEARCH): Sleeping Patterns Can Predict Future Diseases! Sleep Deprivation Is A Silent Killer! The Painful Trick To Fix Poor Sleep - Dr Guy Leschziner

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🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Sleep walking, night terrors and even sleep murders, the mysteries of the sleeping brain revealed Professor Guy Leschinzer is a world-renowned expert in Neurology and Sleep Medicine at Guy’s Hospital London. He is also the author of books such as, ‘The Nocturnal Brain’, ‘The Man Who Tasted Words’, and most recently, ‘Seven Deadly Sins’. In this conversation, Guy and Steven discuss topics such as, how sleep can strip belly fat, the one sleep disorder affecting up to 80% of people, the number one fix for insomnia, and the truth about sleep walking and other night time activities. (00:00) Intro (02:05) Dr. Guy's Fascination With Neurological Conditions (04:14) What Is Dr. Guy's Background (06:25) What Is A Sleep Disorder Centre? (08:00) Why Dr. Guy Chose To Study Sleep (09:18) Is Sleep Important? (11:23) Why We Need Sleep For Good Health (12:58) A Large Percent Of The Population Has Insomnia (17:04) What Is Narcolepsy (18:02) What's Causing So Many Sleep Problems? (21:05) What's The Perfect Sleeping Habit? (24:35) Sleep Quantity Variance Per Person (28:26) The Link Between Sleep And Weight Gain (31:43) Circadian Rhythms Explained (36:16) Blue Lights (39:33) The Main Reasons People Are Struggling With Their Sleep (44:34) Sleep Myths (46:14) Chronotypes (47:54) Where To Start Fixing Sleep Problems (51:24) The Rise Of Sleep Trackers (58:27) What Is The Glymphatic System? (01:01:49) The Link Between Sleep Deprivation And Alzheimer's (01:02:53) Medicating To Help Sleep (01:04:37) Side Effects Of Melatonin (01:06:04) Non-Medical Alternatives To Help Sleep (01:14:37) Surgery To Fix Sleeping Issues (01:17:48) What Would Brain Scans Reveal About Sleep Deprivation (01:19:39) Sleep Deprivation Affects Your Mood (01:21:10) Can Parts Of Our Brain Be Asleep? (01:22:46) Dreaming (01:25:07) Nightmares Explained (01:25:53) Why Do We Remember Some Dreams And Not Others? (01:28:11) Most Upsetting Sleep Disorder Dr. Guy Has Seen (01:31:41) The Sleepwalking Murderer (01:33:50) There Is Help For Insomnia (01:35:17) The Different Types Of Insomnia (01:36:41) The Man Who Tasted Words (01:39:32) Autism And Synesthesia (01:42:21) Are We Guilty Of Crimes If We Are Mentally Ill? (01:45:00) Interventions To Help The Criminally Mentally Ill (01:46:39) Crazy Stories Resulting From A Brain Disorder (01:52:46) How Meeting People With Brain Disorders Has Changed Dr. Guy (01:54:21) Guest's Last Question You can purchase Guy’s books, here: ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ - https://g2ul0.app.link/aoUzRBkJNKb ‘The Nocturnal Brain’ - https://g2ul0.app.link/iLrSJxzKNKb ‘The Secret World of Sleep’ - https://g2ul0.app.link/W8nPXVCKNKb Follow Guy: Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/CCqOwVnJNKb Twitter - https://g2ul0.app.link/YC1itGqJNKb You can learn more about the study on light exposure patterns, here: https://g2ul0.app.link/2SQaT1KKNKb Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/DOACEpisodes My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now - https://g2ul0.app.link/DOACBook Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've seen patients cooking a meal in their sleep,
0:02.6	and driven in their sleep,
0:03.8	committed crimes in their sleep.
0:06.0	So what is the story of Kenneth Parks?
0:08.0	He drove several miles to his in-law's house,
0:11.8	bludgeoned his mother-in-law's house. Bludgeoned his mother-in-law to death
0:14.0	and then tried to kill his father-in-law.
0:16.0	But it was deemed he was sleepwalking,
0:18.0	and he was actually acquitted.
0:20.0	That's crazy.
0:22.0	Dr. Guy Leschner is a leading neurologist in sleep physician at one of Europe's largest sleep clinics.
0:26.5	And with over 25,000 studies of over 100,000 patients, his pioneering research in sleep medicine has provided the answers we need to
0:34.5	improve our sleep. So many people are chronically sleep deprived. 30% will
0:39.3	experience insomnia and 80% of people in the UK don't know that they've got sleep at now.
0:44.0	This is the problem, but the majority can be helped.
0:47.0	So let's get into that.
0:48.0	It says such a thing as healthy sleep.
0:51.0	Somewhere between 7 and 8.5 half hours a night. Now what's
0:54.2	difficult to explain is why your will cause mortality goes up if you're
0:58.0	sleeping more than 8 and half hours. Is there a link between sleep
1:01.5	deprivation and weight gain increases?
1:03.3	So even a single night of sleep deprivation can result in a dramatic increase in calorie intake,
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