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Track Your Sleep to Optimize Your Life | Harpreet Rai (Replay)

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

Impact Theory

News Commentary, News, Business

4.75.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This weeks guest on Health Theory is Harpreet Rai. Harpreet is an entrepreneur and the CEO of Oura Ring. In this episode he talks about how to improve your sleep through tracking, how sleep improves your focus and his tips for losing weight. [Original air date; May 17, 2021]. SHOW NOTES Why sleep matters [01:21] The importance of sleep for your overall health [02:09] What happens when we don't sleep enough [06:15] How to balance your work life with getting enough sleep [08:08] How our sleep is disrupted [11:28] What happens during each phase of sleep [14:32] Lifestyle tips to improve your sleep [18:10] How to use sleep tracking to determine the best workout for you each day [24:16] The importance of deep sleep [27:04] How diet changes your sleep quality [29:12] Why you want high heart rate variability [30:36] Can meditation improve your heart rate variability? [32:59] The reason it's hard to track naps [35:44] The future of wearables and data tracking [37:23] What health markers people should track [43:58] The best exercise for sleep [47:23] How athletes use sleep and hyperbaric chambers to improve recover [49:04] FOLLOW HARPREET: WEBSITE: https://bit.ly/1TqiRON INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/2OvqF9a FACEBOOK: https://bit.ly/2NiMPXE FOLLOW TOM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu If you want to dive deeper into my content, search through every episode, find specific topics I've covered, and ask me questions. Go to my Dexa page: https://dexa.ai/tombilyeu Themes: Mindset, Finance, World Affairs, Health & Productivity, Future & Tech, Simulation Theory & Physics, Dating & Relationships SPONSORS: If you purchase an item using these affiliate links, Impact Theory may receive a commission.  Get 5 free AG1 Travel Packs and a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D with your first purchase at https://drinkag1.com/impact. Try Audible free for 30 days! Just visit https://audible.com/impacttheory or text impacttheory to 500-500. MEDITATIONS is available from Penguin Random House at http://prh.com/meditations. Right now, download NetSuite’s popular KPI Checklist, designed to give you consistently excellent performance - absolutely free, at https://netsuite.com/theory. Save 70% and get a FREE HD camera when you sign up at https://covesmart.com/impact. Head to https://squarespace.com/impact for a free 14 day trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Secure your digital life with proactive protection for your assets, identity, family, and tech – Go to https://aura.com/IMPACT to start your free two-week trial. Take control of your gut health by going to https://tryviome.com/impact and use code IMPACT to get 20% off your first 3 months and free shipping. ***Are You Ready for EXTRA Impact?*** If you’re ready to find true fulfillment, strengthen your focus, and ignite your true potential, the Impact Theory subscription was created just for you.  *New episodes delivered ad-free, EXCLUSIVE access to hundreds of archived Impact Theory episodes, Tom AMAs, and so much more!* This is not for the faint of heart. This is for those who dare to learn obsessively, every day, day after day. *****Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3PCvJaz***** Subscribe on all other platforms (Google Podcasts, Spotify, Castro, Downcast, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podcast Republic, Podkicker, and more) : https://impacttheorynetwork.supercast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to Health Theory. Today's guest is Harpreet Rye. He's a former investment banker

0:04.8

turned entrepreneur who is the CEO of ORA Ring, a sleep tracking company that is doing its best

0:10.4

to help us all live our best lives. And Harpreet, what I want to know about is why exactly does

0:17.7

sleep matter? It's a loaded question. A great way to start. I think sleep matters for

0:25.0

a bunch of different reasons. I think Sean Stevenson said it really, really well. You know,

0:29.4

to your overall well-being and your health and your performance, sleep probably does have a

0:34.9

greater impact than both diet and activity combined.

0:39.0

You know, but the reality of it, we all know it when we get a bad night of sleep.

0:42.6

We feel like crap, right?

0:44.4

We're not productive.

0:45.5

We're sort of grouchy to the people around us, can't perform well in the gym, right?

0:49.7

And oftentimes just have low energy.

0:52.3

So there's a whole host of reasons on the health side,

0:56.1

but also just literally how you feel

0:58.1

and how you feel about life and your mood.

1:01.4

A lot of that has to actually come,

1:02.9

comes back to sleep.

1:06.0

If you had to push beyond what we know,

1:08.7

because I know people are super tense

1:09.9

about what I'm about to ask you, if you had to push beyond what we know and went into hypothesis or what you suspect, what is

1:16.7

it exactly that you think is happening when we sleep? Like, so we know that the brain is like

1:21.8

cleaning out things. But what else is going on? I think if you, one way I like to think about it is, you know, your body actually is operating,

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