The Woman Who Helps Athletes Sleep: Stop Having Showers Just Before Bed! New Science! ‘Nappucino’ Phenomenon You Need To Know!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Society & Culture, Education, Business

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🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Quicker decision making and faster reaction times, here's how you sleep like an Olympian Dr Cheri Mah is a sleep scientist and Professor at the Stanford Sleep Medicine Centre, specialising in the relationship between sleep and performance in elite athletes. In this conversation, Dr Cheri and Steven discuss topics such as, the sleep hacks of elite athletes, the link between alcohol and bad sleep, how to hack naps, and how sleep can improve your sex life. (00:00) Intro (00:32) What do you do and why do you do it? (02:55) Who do you work with? (05:39) What are the misconceptions about sleep? (09:19) Study that increases performance by 12% (12:44) NBA players losing based on schedule (15:36) Players who slept more sprinted faster (17:22) Athletes who have changed their careers by focusing on sleep (20:38) Where to start getting better sleep? (21:51) Does sound/music hurt sleep quality? (22:52) Does temperature matter? (24:47) Food timing for better sleep (27:42) The food to eat before bed that will destroy your sleep (32:36) What to do for a racing mind? (34:07) What is the parasympathetic nervous system? (38:13) Emotional link to better sleep (40:17) Perception change on the importance of sleep (42:34) Cognitive performance and sleep (46:22) Sleep debt and how it works (50:55) Muscle memory and its connection to sleep (52:48) What's a nappucino? (54:18) Do naps work? (55:52) Is the snooze button bad? (58:43) Are there different chronotypes? (01:01:19) Does school start too early for kids? (01:02:55) What parents should know (01:05:20) Sleeping travel tips (01:09:46) Sleeping drugs (01:12:34) Does sex before sleep hurt quality of sleep? (01:14:07) What is the most popular question Cheri Mah gets asked? (01:16:54) How common is sleep apnea? (01:18:47) What excuses do we hear for prioritizing sleep? (01:20:25) Sleep and injury proneness (01:22:08) Waking up early makes Steven hungry (01:24:05) Is waking up in the middle of the night normal? (01:25:38) How much does alcohol affect my sleep? (01:26:43) Guests last question Follow Dr Cheri: Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/9kmHGQ1DHLb Twitter - https://g2ul0.app.link/9NTFNX3DHLb 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 You can purchase the The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards: Second Edition, here: https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was 86% correct on accurately predicting when an NBA team will be at highest risk of losing strictly based on the sleep.
0:08.0	Oh gosh. Yeah, and just 15 or 30 minutes can make a difference.
0:12.0	So let's dive into just some very practical
0:14.8	strategies to get the best sleep possible. Dr.
0:17.8	Sharim Ma is a renowned sleep doctor and performance expert whose sleep
0:21.2	optimization research has enhanced the careers of CEOs as well as
0:24.5	athletes in the NFL, MLB, and formula one and has provided life-changing expertise
0:29.3	to companies like Nike, Under Armour and Google. For my elite athletes that I work with,
0:34.2	sufficiently, it's a game changer.
0:36.7	For example, we saw a 12% faster reaction time,
0:39.9	a 9% improvement in free throws,
0:41.9	and a 4% increase in faster sprint time.
0:45.0	And when you experience what it feels like to be well rested,
0:48.0	you never want to go back to getting insufficient sleep.
0:50.0	And it doesn't have to be these big jumps.
0:52.0	I'd love to dig into that.
0:53.4	Okay.
0:54.4	So I might have a shower, then I get straight into bed after.
0:56.5	Is that good or bad?
0:57.5	Tweak the timing of your shower and your hot bath
1:00.0	to just an hour or two before bed.
1:01.9	It's hard to grasp how much of a difference
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