Show Notes

• Temperature and Sleep: There’s no such thing as the perfect temperature for sleep for all people. Studies say it can be anywhere between 16-60 degrees F.

• There's actually a sleep switch—when you cool your body at night, that change in the temperature turns the sleep switch, producing melatonin.

• Sleep.Me’s technology: Helping people find their individual temperature and making sure there's a dynamic temperature throughout the sleep and warms up a little bit before the wake up call.

• • The future of sleep is automating the sleep improvement process such as making schedule recommendations and adjusting that all throughout the night to maximize deep sleep.

• Three Main Aspects to Sleep Improvement

• • Environment: pertains to temperature, light
  • Behaviors: pertains to what you did throughout the day and before sleeping, what you ate throughout the day, etc.
  • Mindset: pertains to your mental and emotional states, i.e., are you going to sleep in a stressed state, are you taking the time to meditate, and downregulate, etc.

• Three Main Negative Sleep Outcomes

• • You can't fall asleep
  • You wake up and can't fall back to sleep
  • You slept but woke up not feeling rested

• Top 3 things holding people back to get good sleep: Negative Sleep Outcome or no sleep drive can be because you are not tired enough, the environment is too hot or you think about things you have to do.

• Top things you can do to get good sleep

• • Start a sleep journal - for two weeks, record what you eat, what you did when and observe your sleep, be aware of your intake
  • Take Melatonin - but don't take it for three days in a row to not damage your natural ability to produce it
  • Focus on the environment, behaviors and mindset - there's always small things you can do in those 3 categories.

• Todd's Best Medicine: Being self-aware, being humble. It helps you make sure to work on the things that are most important