Sleep Junkies: Recent Episodes
Sleep Junkies
Exploring sleep through the lens of science, culture, medicine, technology and more. The whole conversation on sleep.
Imagine if corporations could place adverts for their products inside your dreams. It may sound like far-fetched science fiction, but amazingly, science and technology has reached the point where this possibility may be around the corner.
Earlier this year, the beer company Molson-Coors tried an experiment based on cutting edge research known as 'targeted dream activation'. Amazingly participants reported dreaming more of Coors beer after consuming audio and video content specifically designed to 'induce' images of beer into the participant's dreams.
Concerned about the possibilities of dreams becoming the playground for unscrupulous marketers, or even as a means of societal manipulation, a group of sleep and dream researchers recently published an open letter, describing the ethical issues at stake, if we longer have sovereign control of our own dreams. This episode’s guest:
Dr Sara C. Mednick is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of California, Irvine and author of the book, Take a Nap! Change your life. . She is passionate about understanding how the brain works through her research into sleep and cognition. Dr. Mednick’s seven-bedroom sleep lab at UCI works literally around-the-clock to discover methods for boosting cognition through a range of different interventions including napping, brain stimulation with electricity, sound and light, as well as pharmacological interventions. Her research findings have been published in such leading scientific journals as Nature Neuroscience and The Proceedings from the National Academy of Science, and covered by all major media outlets. She received a PhD in Psychology from Harvard University, and then completed a postdoc at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and UC San Diego.
Links
Website: http://www.saramednick.com/
Sleep and Cognition Lab: http://sleepandcognitionlab.org/
University California Irvine: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=6491
Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara-Mednick
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sara_Mednick Other resources:
MIT Dream Engineering group: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/theme-engineering-dreams/overview/
Coors beer promotion: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/05/advertisers-targeted-dream-incubation
Open letter: https://dxe.pubpub.org/pub/dreamadvertising/release/1
Google Nest 2: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56416578
Amazon sleep tracker: https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/amazon-gets-waiver-from-fcc-to-monitor-sleep-with-a-radar-sensor/
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/dreams-and-advertising/
We talk to legendary sleep researcher Robert Stickgold, and eminent dream scientist Antonio Zadra about their book When Brains Dream, and their new theory, NEXTUP an overarching framework for explaining the biological function of dreams and dreaming.
In the second part of our deep dive into sleep supplements we take a look at the overlapping subjects of nutrition, delivery methods, dosages, a run-down of the different categories of sleep supplements including plant-derived substances, vitamins, amino acids and more. Plus we look into the future towards the prospect of a new era of 'nutritional sleep medicine.'
You can listen to Part 1 here: https://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-supplements-part-1/ This episode’s guest:
Jesse Cook is a 4th year Clinical Psychology graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the active Sleep Research Society Trainee Member At-Large. Jesse completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona, where he established an initial passion and skillset for Sleep Research through his time as a research assistant in Dr. Richard Bootzin's Sleep Research Laboratory.
Jesse’s research primarily focus on the assessment and treatment of persons with unexplained excessive daytime sleepiness. Additionally, he has published multiple papers evaluating the utility and ability of wearable consumer technologies as a sleep assessor, relative to PSG. You can reach Jesse by email at jdcook4@wisc.edu Resources: Jesse Cook Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jesse_Cook3
Jesse on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SleepAndSports
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-supplements-part-2
Dietary Sources of Melatonin: https://res.mdpi.com/nutrients/nutrients-09-00367/article_deploy/nutrients-09-00367-v2.pdf
When we're seeking solutions to health problems we generally look to doctors and scientists for the best advice. But what happens when the experts don't actually have all the answers?
This is often the case when we talk about sleep supplements. This rapidly growing market comprises a dizzying array of off-the-shelf products blending plant extracts, micronutrients, amino acids, vitamins and minerals, all of which purport to be able to help alleviate sleep problems in one way or the other.
The problems stem from the fact that whilst there exists a modest body of scientific literature showing potential efficacy for solving some sleep issues, the sleep supplement industry - devoid of regulatory restrictions - is forging ahead to satisfy the enormous demand for novel, non-pharmaceutical based sleep solutions.
We take a deep dive into these murky waters, exploring many of the lesser-discussed issues including the marketing of products, the distinctions between medical, anxiety and lifestyle-based sleep problems, the dichotomy of 'pill's vs 'behaviour change', the overlap of diet and nutrition, and also examining the exciting future potential of a new era of 'nutritional sleep medicine'. This episode’s guest:
Jesse Cook is a 4th year Clinical Psychology graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the active Sleep Research Society Trainee Member At-Large. Jesse completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona, where he established an initial passion and skillset for Sleep Research through his time as a research assistant in Dr. Richard Bootzin's Sleep Research Laboratory.
Jesse’s research primarily focus on the assessment and treatment of persons with unexplained excessive daytime sleepiness. Additionally, he has published multiple papers evaluating the utility and ability of wearable consumer technologies as a sleep assessor, relative to PSG. You can reach Jesse by email at jdcook4@wisc.edu Resources: Jesse Cook Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jesse_Cook3
Jesse on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SleepAndSportsv
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-supplements-part-1/
In today's episode we discuss all things pregnancy and baby sleep with physician, host of the award-winning Savvy Psychologist and new mum Dr Jade Wu.
This episode's guest:
Jade Wu, PhD, DBSM, is a Board-certified sleep psychologist and researcher at Duke University School of Medicine. She earned her PhD from Boston University and completed her clinical training at Duke. Her current research focuses on treating sleep disorders in those with chronic illness. In the clinic, her approach is grounded in both science and compassion.
Website: https://www.jadewuphd.com/
Savvy Psychologist Podcast: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/savvy-psychologist
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jadewuphd
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/pregnancy-baby-sleep/ More Episodes:
A special documentary to celebrate our 50th episode. Featuring multiple guests, archive material, original music and plenty of intrigue, follow the labyrinthine narrative of Daylight Saving Time, the new science of chronobiology, and the clandestine monied interests pushing to extend daylight hours into the evening. Guests in order of appearance Barry Mitzman - http://www.barrymitzman.com/ Kimberly Honn, PhD - https://medicine.wsu.edu/overview/faculty-and-staff/kimberly-honn-ph-d/ Jay Pea - https://savestandardtime.com/ Dr Michael Grandner - https://www.michaelgrandner.com/about.html Emily Manoogian, PhD - https://panda.salk.edu/people/ Christine Blume, PhD - https://www.christine-blume.com/
Archive Material The Reasoning Behind Changing Daylight-Saving - NPR interview with Melissa Block and Michael Downing
Daylight Saving Time - How Is This Still A Thing? - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Youtube
Screen time and sleep - it's not just about the blue light - Sleep Junkies Podcast
Daylight Saving Time, Grandpa Jones; Louis M. Jones - Internet Archive
Additional Credits Consultancy and good vibrations - Jim Carey, Inventive Audio
Original music and sound design - Dark Trash
Episode url: http://sleepjunkies.com/standard-time-documentary/
Only a few years ago, the phrase consumer sleep technology was synonymous with sleep trackers, devices that monitor your nocturnal behaviours to give you insights into the mysteries of your non-waking hours.
Fast forward to 2021, where we're in the middle of an innovation explosion of all type of gadgets, wearables, apps, smart home technologies which not only track, but also actively attempt to promote better sleep.
In today's episode we talk to friend of the podcast, Dr Michael Grandner about this important distinction between sleep technology that measures, and tech that intervenes in our sleep.
Plus we explore some of the latest science-backed sleep devices that utilise light, sound, temperature and other esoteric techniques with strange acronyms like PEMF, TDCS, all in the mission to improve our sleep.
Dr Grandner helps us to understand where the science is at with all of the latest sleep-tech trends, including digital sleep coaching, Sp02 monitoring, light therapy wearables, bed cooling tech, and more.
This episode's guest:
Dr. Michael Grandner is the Director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona, Director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic at the Banner-University Medical Center, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UA College of Medicine, with joint appointments in the Departments of Medicine, Psychology (UA College of Science), Nutritional Sciences (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences), and Clinical Translational Science. In addition, he is a faculty member of the Neuroscience and Physiological Sciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs. He is Certified in Behavioral Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Sleep Medicine and is a Diplomate in Behavioral Sleep Medicine by the Board of Behavioral Sleep Medicine.
Website: http://www.michaelgrandner.com/
University of Arizona: https://www.sleephealthresearch.com/team.html
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grandner/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Grandner
Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelgrandner
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/measurement-intervention-sleep-tech/ More Resources: Guide to light therapy wearables - https://sleepgadgets.io/best-light-therapy-glasses-wearables/
PEMF and sleep - https://sleepgadgets.io/interview-welltiss-mind-pemf-device/
Matthew Walker on tDCS More Episodes:
What role do history, culture and economics play on our normative conceptions of sleep? How has modern American life shaped the way we define the norms of 'healthy sleep'? Join us for a wide-ranging, thought-provoking discussion with Matthew Wolf-Meyer about his research and book, The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and Modern American Life. This episode's guest:
Matthew Wolf-Meyer PhD is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University. His work focuses on medicine, science, and media in the United States, and draws on history, contemporary experiences, and popular representations of health and illness.work focuses on how medicine, science and media in the U.S. make sense of major modern-era shifts in the expert practices of science, medicine and popular representations of health. His first book, "The Slumbering Masses," offers insights into the complex lived realities of disorderly sleepers, the long history of sleep science and the global impacts of the exportation of American sleep.
Website: https://matthewwolfmeyer.com/
Binghamton University: https://www.binghamton.edu/anthropology/faculty/profile.html?id=mwolfmey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/m_wolf_meyer
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/slumbering-masses/ More Episodes:
Pretty much every week, we get an email from a new cannabis startup, promoting their latest CBD or THC remedy to treat any number of health conditions, including sleep problems.
This boom in new, legal cannabis products is the result of recent legislation to start the process of widespread marijuana decriminalisation, and eventually full legalisation. But whilst the consumer demand is fuelling massive growth in the global cannabis industry, currently, there's little, verging on zero clinical evidence to firmly substantiate many of the health claims made by the new wave of cannabis products hitting the market.
So in this episode, we go behind the marketing claims, and look at the real, solid, scientific evidence behind medical cannabis and its efficacy in treating insomnia and a whole host of other sleep disorders including sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and even narcolepsy. This episode's guest:
Anastasia Suraev is a clinical research officer at the Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics, a philanthropically-funded centre for cannabinoid research at the University of Sydney. She is also a PhD candidate at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research where she is leading a clinical trial assessing the effects of a cannabis-based therapy on sleep in people with chronic insomnia.
University of Sydney: https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/anastasia-suraev.html
Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics: https://www.sydney.edu.au/lambert/:
Systematic Review: Cannabinoid therapies in the management of sleep disorders: A systematic review of preclinical and clinical studies
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/cannabis-sleep-medicine/ More Episodes:
Technology and sleep have a troubled relationship. On one hand, doctors and therapists remind their patients to banish every gadget and gizmo from the bedroom, lest they act as addictive, irresistible slumber-stealing distractions.
On the other side however, there's a fast growing cohort of innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers, and sleep practitioners who recognise the unbounded potential of technology to improve, rather than detract from our sleep.
In this episode we talk to Julian Jagtenberg, co-founder of Somnox, a company at the vanguard of the vibrant, innovative 21st century consumer sleep technology industry. We talk to Julian about the world's first sleep robot, and how the new 'sleep economy' may offer exciting new pathways and opportunities to help people overcome sleep issues, without resorting to pills, or potions. This episode's guest:
Julian Jagtenberg is Chief Marketing Officer and co-founder of Somnox, the world’s first sleep robot. Created to fight insomnia, help the sleep deprived and start a global sleep revolution, Somnox was borne from Julian’s desire to help his mother manage and overcome insomnia without the need for prescription medication.
He graduated with honors from the Delft University of Technology with a degree in Industrial Design, and also holds a minor in Robotics from the Delft Biorobotics Lab
As an industrial design engineer, Julian is on a mission to develop soft robotics to contribute to health and well-being. With multiple design and engineering awards, including the James Dyson Award, Philips Innovation Award, Robotdalen Innovation Award and Sprout’s 25 under 25, Julian passionately believes in the ability of robotics to help humans live happier and healthier lives.
Julian's website: https://julianjagtenberg.com/
Somnox website: https://somnox.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianjagtenberg/ More Resources: Paro Therapeutic Robots: http://www.parorobots.com/
Our in-depth review of the Somnox Sleep Robot: https://sleepgadgets.io/somnox-sleep-robot-review/
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/somnox-robot-sleep-economy/ More Episodes:
Artificial intelligence is the vanguard of a new technological revolution that will affect all aspects of human society.
Our work, our health, the cars we drive, even the media we consume - all will be radically transformed in the coming years and decades by 'intelligent machines'. Essentially, these are computers that have learnt how to do many of the tasks we thought only humans were capable of. But the difference is, AI can do things quicker, more accurately, and of course, without needing human intervention.
Sleep medicine will not be an exception to this march of progress. So much so, that earlier this year, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) issued a position statement, outlining a roadmap for sleep professionals to start engaging now with the multifaceted ways that AI will inevitably impact on patient care, diagnostics, staff allocation, treatment protocols and much more.
We talk to Dr Cathy Goldstein, neurologist, and chair of the AASM's committee on AI about how artificial intelligence will shape the field of sleep medicine in coming years, and also how Dr Goldstein's own research into longitudinal sleep tracking with consumer wearables may also play a role in expanding our vision for how we manage sleep health outside of the clinic.
This episode's guest:
Cathy Goldstein, MD, is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan and faculty in the Sleep Disorders Center. Her current research focus, through work with mathematics, is the improvement of sleep tracking via algorithm development and validation using consumer sensors.
The ultimate goal of this work is more accurate longitudinal sleep estimation for performance and precision health applications. Dr. Goldstein has a passion for teaching and her educational roles have included University of Michigan athletes, trainers, and coaches and medical school faculty and trainees. She has helped disseminate sleep health and wellness to the general public through pieces in numerous media outlets.
Dr. Goldstein works to promote the adoption of cutting edge technology in sleep medicine as the chair of the national committee on AI in sleep medicine.
Dr.Goldstein has a passion for education that spans colleagues, trainees, patients and the public. In addition to her clinical work, she holds various leadership roles including Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Circadian Sleep-Wake Rhythm Disorders Section Editor of UpToDate, and committee work through the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
University of Michigan: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/neurology/cathy-goldstein-md-ms
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cathygo_sleep
More Resources:AI in sleep medicine: an AASM position statement: https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8288
A Consumer Sleep Tracker Researchers Can Actually Use
Artificial intelligence in sleep medicine: background and implications for clinicians
Episode Homepage: https://sleepjunkies.com/ai-sleep-medicine
Artificial intelligence is the vanguard of a new technological revolution that will affect all aspects of human society.
Our work, our health, the cars we drive, even the media we consume - all will be radically transformed in the coming years and decades by 'intelligent machines'. Essentially, these are computers that have learnt how to do many of the tasks we thought only humans were capable of. But the difference is, AI can do things quicker, more accurately, and of course, without needing human intervention.
Sleep medicine will not be an exception to this march of progress. So much so, that earlier this year, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) issued a position statement, outlining a roadmap for sleep professionals to start engaging now with the multifaceted ways that AI will inevitably impact on patient care, diagnostics, staff allocation, treatment protocols and much more.
We talk to Dr Cathy Goldstein, neurologist, and chair of the AASM's committee on AI about how artificial intelligence will shape the field of sleep medicine in coming years, and also how Dr Goldstein's own research into longitudinal sleep tracking with consumer wearables may also play a role in expanding our vision for how we manage sleep health outside of the clinic. This episode's guest:
Cathy Goldstein, MD, is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan and faculty in the Sleep Disorders Center. Her current research focus, through work with mathematics, is the improvement of sleep tracking via algorithm development and validation using consumer sensors.
The ultimate goal of this work is more accurate longitudinal sleep estimation for performance and precision health applications. Dr. Goldstein has a passion for teaching and her educational roles have included University of Michigan athletes, trainers, and coaches and medical school faculty and trainees. She has helped disseminate sleep health and wellness to the general public through pieces in numerous media outlets.
Dr. Goldstein works to promote the adoption of cutting edge technology in sleep medicine as the chair of the national committee on AI in sleep medicine.
Dr.Goldstein has a passion for education that spans colleagues, trainees, patients and the public. In addition to her clinical work, she holds various leadership roles including Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Circadian Sleep-Wake Rhythm Disorders Section Editor of UpToDate, and committee work through the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
University of Michigan: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/neurology/cathy-goldstein-md-ms
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cathygo_sleep More Resources: AI in sleep medicine: an AASM position statement: https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8288 A Consumer Sleep Tracker Researchers Can Actually Use
Artificial intelligence in sleep medicine: background and implications for clinicians
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/ai-sleep-medicine More Episodes:
This week we explore 'pandemic dreaming' - a phenomenon where people around the world, experiencing lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, have reported an uptick in incidences of dreaming and more vivid dreams.
We talk to two academics who, for several years have been undertaking an art/science project, DreamsID in which individuals recall a dream, which is then transformed in real time to a work of art.
We talk about some of the reasons behind 'Covid dreams', art, symbolism and metaphors, an overview of contemporary theories of dreams' functions, and explore new theories of how the act of sharing dreams may strengthen social bonds by increasing feelings of empathy. This episode's guests:
Mark Blagrove is a Professor of Psychology at Swansea Univeristy. He studies the relationship between sleep and cognition, including effects of sleep loss, memory consolidation functions of sleep, causes and possible functions of dreaming, nightmares, and lucid dreams.
Swansea University: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/human-and-health-sciences/psychology/m.t.blagrove/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mark_Blagrove
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Blagrove
Julia Lockheart BA MA PhD FRSA SFHEA is a British artist, academic and researcher. She currently works as a metadesign researcher and Associate Lecturer in Design Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London; as a Senior Lecturer, Head of Contextual Practices, and Director of the Metadesign Research Centre at Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David and also as a design and language consultant to several educational institutions internationally.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Lockheart
Goldsmiths: https://www.gold.ac.uk/design/people/lockheart-julia/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrLockheart
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia_Lockheart More Resources: DreamsID: http://dreamsid.com/
Study - Empathy & Dream Sharing: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01351/full
Article from Sublime Magazine: https://sublimemagazine.com/dream-sharing
Wired Magazine: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coronavirus-dreams-sleep
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/covid-dreams-empathy/ More Episodes:
In recent years we've been bombarded with advice warning of the dangers of sleep-stealing blue light emitted from smartphones, tablets and computer screens.
But scientists and health experts are slowly coming to realise that the melatonin-blocking function of short-wavelength light is only part of the story regarding the reasons why technology keeps us awake at night.
In this episode we talk to renowned sleep expert Dr Michael Grandner about the complex and nuanced ways that technology can contribute to a lack of sleep - discussing not just the role of blue light, but also the addictive nature of social media algorithms, how different types of digital media affect sleep, and offering some practical tips to help you manage your smartphone addiction. This episode's guest:
Dr. Michael Grandner is the Director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona, Director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic at the Banner-University Medical Center, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UA College of Medicine, with joint appointments in the Departments of Medicine, Psychology (UA College of Science), Nutritional Sciences (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences), and Clinical Translational Science. In addition, he is a faculty member of the Neuroscience and Physiological Sciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs. He is Certified in Behavioral Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Sleep Medicine and is a Diplomate in Behavioral Sleep Medicine by the Board of Behavioral Sleep Medicine.
Website: http://www.michaelgrandner.com/
University of Arizona: https://www.sleephealthresearch.com/team.html
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grandner/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Grandner
Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelgrandner
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/screens-and-sleep/ More Episodes:
A special episode focussed around coronavirus COVID-19, we talk to Dr Jonathan Cedernaes about the roles that sleep plays in our immune system, fighting infections, and how environmental factors such as physical exercise, sunlight and diet impact our circadian clocks. This episode's guest:
Jonathan Cedernaes MD, PhD is a senior researcher at Uppsala University where he completed both his medical degree and his PhD in the Department of Neuroscience.
Uppsala: https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N7-789
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jonathan_Cedernaes
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-cedernaes-176b3159
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JCedernaes
Sleep Science Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/495466987134152/
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-immunity-and-coronavirus/ More Episodes:
The second instalment of a wide-ranging conversation with associate professor of neuroscience, Christian Benedict on the fascinating, complex and still as yet fully unravelled associations between sleep, obesity, diet and weight gain. This Episode's Guest
Christian Benedict Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in neuroscience at Uppsala University where he heads up a team of scientists at the Benedict lab, which studies the effects of circadian disruption and sleep loss on health and performance, with a particular focus on the relationship between sleep loss and metabolism. Christian holds a Master's degree in nutritional science, a Ph.D. in human biology, is a teacher in the medical and biomedicine program at UU and is also the author of the book "Sömn, Sömn, Sömn". Benedict Lab: https://www.benedictlab.org/ ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian_Benedict Uppsala University: https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N9-480
The book: https://www.bonnierfakta.se/bocker/223532/somn-somn-somn/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sleep_advocate
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sleep_advocate/
Sleep Science Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/495466987134152/
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-diet-obesity-part-2/
Studies mentioned in this episode:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30870662
One night of sleep loss increases ’ideal’ portion size, Sleep loss may enhance snack intake, despite satiety Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2013 Sep;38(9):1668-74
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30870662
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.49053.001
One night of sleep loss increases blood concentration of the hunger hormone ghrelin by about 15% Obesity (Silver Spring). 2014 Aug;22(8):1786-91
Recurrent partial sleep loss decreases mean blood concentration of the appetite hormone leptin by about 19% J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2004 Nov;89(11):5762-71
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4119845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31098615 More Episodes:
Does a lack of sleep lead to a higher risk of obesity? Or does being overweight lead to more likelihood of sleep problems? Around the world, scientists have been trying to unravel this chicken and egg problem for decades. What's clear so far is that to understand the associations between sleep loss, diet, obesity and weight gain, sleep scientists have to confront a dizzying array of knowledge domains including psychology, neuroscience, epidemiology, genetics, endocrinology and more.
Today, in a two-part episode we speak to associate professor Christian Benedict, a sleep research who has spent almost two decades in the field and now heads up his own team of researchers and doctors and Uppsala University.
We discuss the many associations that we currently know about sleep, diet and obesity, including how sleep loss impairs our cognitive ability to make good food choices, how sleep plays a role in our body's energy expenditure equation, the role of food in our circadian system, how 'hunger hormones' are impacted by sleep loss, which diets are more/less impactful on our sleep patterns and a whole bunch of other stuff. This Episode's Guest
Christian Benedict Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in neuroscience at Uppsala University where he heads up a team of scientists at the Benedict lab, which studies the effects of circadian disruption and sleep loss on health and performance, with a particular focus on the relationship between sleep loss and metabolism. Christian holds a Master's degree in nutritional science, a Ph.D. in human biology, is a teacher in the medical and biomedicine program at UU and is also the author of the book "Sömn, Sömn, Sömn". Benedict Lab: https://www.benedictlab.org/ ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian_Benedict Uppsala University: https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N9-480
The book: https://www.bonnierfakta.se/bocker/223532/somn-somn-somn/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sleep_advocate
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sleep_advocate/
Sleep Science Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/495466987134152/
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-diet-obesity-part-1/
Studies mentioned in this episode:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30870662
One night of sleep loss increases ’ideal’ portion size, Sleep loss may enhance snack intake, despite satiety Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2013 Sep;38(9):1668-74
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30870662
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.49053.001
One night of sleep loss increases blood concentration of the hunger hormone ghrelin by about 15% Obesity (Silver Spring). 2014 Aug;22(8):1786-91
Recurrent partial sleep loss decreases mean blood concentration of the appetite hormone leptin by about 19% J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2004 Nov;89(11):5762-71
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4119845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31098615 More Episodes:
In recent years melatonin has exploded in popularity as a 'wonder drug' - a safe, natural supplement for helping with sleep problems. Whilst there's lots of scientific evidence to back up many of the claims, the fact that melatonin, at least in the United States is classed as a food supplement, rather than a prescription medication, has led to a lack of consistent public health messaging, and a great deal of confusion amongst the millions who take melatonin supplements on a regular basis.
In this episode we try to cut through the marketing hype, dispel some myths, and find out what the real facts are about melatonin and its role in sleep, as we speak to Professor Helen Burgess, one of the leading melatonin researcher in the United States.
As well as discussing the basic biology concerning the role of melatonin we talk about the practical ins and outs, dosages, timing, use cases, side effects and also some of the latest findings in scientific research about how melatonin may play an important role outside of sleep issues, having implications for health conditions such as inflammation, some cancers and diabetes. This Episode's Guest
Helen Burgess, Ph.D. is aProfessor in the Department of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan. Her scientific research examines basic sleep and circadian rhythm mechanisms and also sleep and circadian rhythms in the context of various clinical disorders including alcohol use disorders, autism, chronic pain, depression, diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders, HIV, jet lag, migraine, shift work, sleep disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder. Her research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. Professor Burgess is also a member of the scientific advisory board for Natrol.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-burgess-45759a19/
ResearhGate: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/39697916_Helen_J_Burgess
Rush University: https://www.rushu.rush.edu/faculty/helen-burgess-phd
Lab webpage: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/psychiatry/programs/sleep-circadian-research-laboratory
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Winning the award for the best named sleep disorder ever, exploding head syndrome is an intriguing phenomenon which, although relatively harmless, can nonetheless cause considerable distress for those who suffer the condition.
In today's episode we deep dive into the world of exploding head syndrome, with Dr Brian Sharpless, one of the foremost researchers in the field, and explore its symptoms, causes, possible treatments and lots more. This Episode's Guest
Dr Brian A. Sharpless is a licensed psychologist and author with interests in unusual psychological disorders, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and the history and philosophy of clinical psychology. He received a PhD in clinical psychology and MA in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University and completed post-doctoral clinical and research fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his three books with Oxford University Press, he has published over 40 journal articles and chapters. He also maintains a clinical practice in the greater Washington, DC area (i.e., Maryland and northern Virginia) and is a frequent lecturer.
Dr Brian Sharpless website: http://briansharpless.com/
Published research: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hGAbs68AAAAJ&hl
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Brian-A-Sharpless/e/B01E606M42
UNSW Empirical Musicology Lab: http://bit.ly/2OFtOSZ
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/exploding-head-syndrome/ More Episodes:
Music has been called the 'purest form of art', but it's also used by many as a means to fall asleep more easily. But at present, science can tell us very little about the mechanisms behind sleep's role as a therapeutic sleep aid.
In today's episode we speak to Thomas Dickson, researcher, app creator and co-author of a recent review examining the existing scientific literature about the different ways music might help us with our sleep, including; relaxation, distraction, entrainment, masking, enjoyment and expectation.
In a wide-ranging conversation we discuss how music differs to other audio formats like podcasts and white noise, how binaural beats work, why ACDC might be better to fall asleep to than Beethoven and lots more. This Episode's Guest
Τhomas Dickson is a PhD student at the University of New South Wales, Australia, specialising in the use of music as a sleep aid. Thomas has combined music psychology research, and app development skills to build a world-first sleep app that composes relaxing music.
How Does Music Aid Sleep? Literature Review: http://bit.ly/2DA8g40
Can't Sleep App: https://cantsleepapp.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-dickson-77012262/
UNSW Empirical Musicology Lab: http://bit.ly/2OFtOSZ
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/science-of-music-sleep/ More Episodes:
For a long time, teenagers have been portayed as lazy, prone to mood swings, and generally difficult to get on with. But sleep science dispels these myths as we now know that the adolescent age period is marked by many developmental changes, including the circadian system.
Today we talk to Dr Valerie Crabtree, a sleep researcher, clinical psychologist and mother of two teenagers, about the science of the teenage brain, the risk factors for adolescents who don't get enough sleep, societal challenges, and also offer some practical advice for parents who want to ensure the best possible sleep for their teens. This Episode's Guest
Valerie Crabtree Ph.D is an Associate Member, Department of Psychology and Chief of Psychosocial Services at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. When she arrived at St. Jude, she focused her research on sleep disturbances in pediatric oncology patients, and her clinical work on sleep complaints, as well as psychological adaptation to cancer and treatment. In 2015, Dr. Crabtree and her co-author, Dr. Lisa Meltzer, published a book, “Pediatric Sleep Problems: A Clinician’s Guide to Behavioral Interventions.”
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital: https://www.stjude.org/directory/c/valerie-crabtree.html
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valerie_Crabtree
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerie-crabtree-b656157/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/drvcrabtree
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-and-the-teenage-brain/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng1i8KuOqVc More Episodes:
Throughout human history, across different cultures, people have told tales about supernatural visitations during the night.
We now know that these stories refer to a condition known as sleep paralysis, a hybrid sleep/wake state whereby our muscles are largely paralysed but our brain 'wakes up'.
Today we speak to psychology professor Christopher French about this common, and often frightening sleep disorder - how its symptoms manifest, the fascinating cross-cultural background and some strategies to help manage and cope with sleep paralysis
This Episode's Guest
Professor Christopher French is the Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published over 150 articles and chapters covering a wide range of topics. His main current area of research is the psychology of paranormal beliefs and anomalous experiences. He frequently appears on radio and television casting a sceptical eye over paranormal claims.
Goldsmiths: https://www.gold.ac.uk/psychology/staff/french/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_French2
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chriscfrench More Resources Article in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/02/sleep-paralysis Sleep Paralysis Project: https://sleepparalysisproject.wordpress.com
Cheyne et al Factor Analysis: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S105381009990404X http://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Paralysis-Historical-Psychological-Perspectives/dp/0199313806/ http://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Paralysis-Night-mares-Connection-Anthropology/dp/0813548861
Article from Sleep Junkies: http://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-paralysis-demons-nightmares/
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-paralysis-explained/ More Episodes:
After experiencing chronic sleep deprivation after the birth of her first child, Vicki Dawson identified a need for social support services to people with sleep issues. Today, Vicki heads up the Sleep Charity, an award-winning organisation that reaches thousands of families with sleep needs, and offers accredited training to individuals and health professionals to further support the needs of the community.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeHDYOik9N4 This Episode's Guest
Vicki Dawson is the founder and CEO of The Sleep Charity (formerly, the Children's Sleep Charity). The charity use behavioural approaches to children's sleep issues and offers accredited training to both parents and practitioners around sleep issues, and trains NHS staff to deliver sleep services.The charity is involved with a range of innovative projects in partnerships with universities and hospitals nationally and internationally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrOi2lEzabk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicki-dawson-43094325/ More Resources The Sleep Charity: https://www.thechildrenssleepcharity.org.uk/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thesleepcharity
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheSleepCharity/
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/the-sleep-charity/ More Episodes:
Narcolepsy is a widely misunderstood sleep disorder which affects around 3 million people worldwide. Lack of awareness, and misrepresentation in the media has led many people to struggle not just with managing their condition, but also coping with the social stigmas and prevalent attitudes in society towards narcolepsy and sleep disorders in general.
In today's episode we talk to Julie Flygare, lawyer, advocate, award-winning author and CEO of Project Sleep, about the social experience of living with narcolepsy.
This Episode's Guest
Julie Flygare, JD is the founder of Project Sleep, a non-profit raising awareness about sleep health and sleep disorders. Julie is a leading narcolepsy spokesperson and award-winning author, diagnosed with narcolepsy with cataplexy in 2007. She received her B.A. from Brown University in 2005 & her J.D. from Boston College Law School in 2009. In 2013, “Wide Awake and Dreaming” won the First Prize Biography/Autobiography Award at the San Francisco Book Festival.
Upon recognizing that many doctors were unfamiliar with narcolepsy, Julie collaborated with Harvard Medical School researchers in 2009 to establish a 5-hour educational program based on her story now taught to all Harvard Medical School students.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXTd8xd_f8s More Resources Project Sleep: https://project-sleep.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/project_sleep
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/project_sleep/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/projectsleepvideos/videos
Julie's Website: http://julieflygare.com/
Julie @LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julieflygare/
The Book: Wide Awake & Dreaming: A Memoir of Narcolepsy
Sleep Junkies Interview: Rising to the challenge: narcolepsy advocate Julie Flygare
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/narcolepsy-social-experience/ More Episodes:
We speak to author Lois Maharg about her book, The Savvy Insomniac, and the journey to conquering her fear of insomnia.
This Episode's Guest
Lois Maharg is a health journalist who writes about sleep, exercise, and food. Lifelong insomnia gave rise to her new book, The Savvy Insomniac: A Personal Journey through Science to Better Sleep. Her blog, http://www.thesavvyinsomniac.com, is dedicated to sharing new information about insomnia and sleep. She gives speaking presentations on how to get a better night’s rest.
The Book: The Savvy Insomniac: A Personal Journey through Science to Better Sleep
Website: https://thesavvyinsomniac.com/
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/taking-the-fear-out-of-insomnia/ More Episodes:
We speak to journalist and author about a new book Chasing The Sun, which explores the extraordinary significance of sunlight – from ancient solstice celebrations to modern sleep labs, and from the unexpected health benefits of sun exposure to what the Amish know about sleep that the rest of us don’t.
This Episode's Guest
Linda Geddes is a Bristol-based journalist writing about biology, medicine and technology. Born in Cambridge, she graduated from the University of Liverpool with a first-class degree in cell biology. She spent nine years as an editor and reporter for New Scientist magazine and has received numerous awards for her journalism, including the Association of British Science Writers’ award for Best Investigative Journalism, European School of Oncology’s Best Cancer Reporter, The Endocrine Society’s Health Writer of the Year, and BT’s Information Security Journalist of the Year. She was also shortlisted for the Paul Foot Award in 2011 and the Press and Periodicals Association’s Writer of the Year award in 2009 and 2011.
The Book: Chasing the Sun: The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds
Website: https://www.lindageddes.com/
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/linda-geddes-medical-writer
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LindaGeddes More Episodes:
The American Sleep Apnea Association was founded in 1990 with a goal to administer and nurture a new model of sleep apnea peer support groups. Adam Amdur has been the Chief Patient Officer since 2014 and in a wide ranging conversation we talk about the work of the ASAA, dispel some of the myths and misperceptions about sleep apnea, and discover how patients can find help and support from the ASAA. This episode's guest:
Adam Amdur is the Chief Patient Officer of the American Sleep Apnea Association. He was diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnea in 2008, more than thirty years after he first showed symptoms. As the first patient principal investigator and co-founder of the Sleep Apnea Patient-Centered Outcomes Network, a part of the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, Adam worked to bring together patient leaders from other networks in order to discover a common patient voice as it relates to research best practices and collaboration with diverse stakeholders. He has increased awareness through multiple media interviews and has been a lead presenter at the National Institutes of Health’s Precision Medicine Initiative.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-amdur-7b794310/ More Resources: American Sleep Apnea Association: https://www.sleepapnea.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sleepapneaorg/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/sleepapneaorg
SleepApnea.org Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI_rc835UoOe-r_J7mJYzNA
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/american-sleep-apnea-association/
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-apnea-org/ More Episodes:
The Sociology of Sleep Group was founded at Surrey University over 20 years ago and has published widely on many sleep related topics including ageing, sleep and gender.
We talk to Dr Robert Meadows about his research at Surrey, looking at sleep from a sociological perspective, along the way talking about gender, relationships, work, addiction, the media and many other ways that sleep can be regarded in a social context. This episode's guest:
Dr Robert Meadows is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Surrey. His interests include social relations and health with particular emphasis on the sociology of sleep, sociology of mental health, body and embodiment and (quantitative) methodology.
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Meadows
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobertMeadows16 More Resources: Surrey University Sociology of Sleep Dept: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/sociology-of-sleep
Sociology of Sleep (Chapter from Sleep, Health, and Society) : https://bit.ly/2MnGqvI
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/a-sociology-of-sleep/ More Episodes:
We discuss 4 recent publications from the world of sleep science with Dr Jonathan Cedernaes. Discussing weekend sleep recovery, shift work & cancer, daylight saving time, and the inter-individuality in light response of the human circadian system
Publication discussed in this episode:
1) Ad libitum Weekend Recovery Sleep Fails to Prevent Metabolic Dysregulation during a Repeating Pattern of Insufficient Sleep and Weekend Recovery Sleep.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30098-3
2) Why Should We Abolish Daylight Saving Time?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0748730419854197
3) Shift work and cancer
Carcinogenicity of shift work
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(19)30455-3/fulltext
Night shift work and risk of breast cancer in women: the Generations Study cohort
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41416-019-0485-7
4) High sensitivity and interindividual variability in the response of the human circadian system to evening light
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/24/12019
This episode's guest:
Jonathan Cedernaes MD, PhD is a senior researcher at Uppsala University where he completed both his medical degree and his PhD in the Department of Neuroscience.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-cedernaes-176b3159
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JCedernaes
Sleep Science Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/495466987134152/ More Resources: Society for Research on Biological Rhythms: https://srbr.org/
Sleep 4 Performance podcast with Sean Cain: https://bit.ly/2nGEhme
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/research-roundup-sep-2019/ More Episodes:
Prefer to read, download the full episode transcript here For the last few decades, a grass-roots movement across the United States has been raising awareness and campaigning to change the situation in many schools, whereby early bell times are forcing kids to get out of bed extremely early in order to make it through the school gates on time.
With bus times scheduled as early as 5 am, as well as causing disruption to family lives, early school start times fail to recognize the vast body of scientific research demonstrating that adolescent sleep needs are fundamentally different to adults and younger children.
In 2011, Dr Terra Ziporyn Snider started a petition to lobby the government to recognise the biological incompatibility between early school times and adolescent sleep needs. This resulted in the founding of Start School Later, which brought together all of the grass-roots activists across the States, to join with researchers and health professionals to further raise awareness and bring about change regarding the relationship between sleep and school hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJboKaGmYcg
In this episode we speak to Dr Terra Ziporyn Snider, co-founder and Executive Director of Start School Later about the history and social context of America's early school start times, the science of adolescent sleep, and the California Bill SB328 which is pushing for a mandate to ensure schools are legally obliged to start no earlier than 8.30am. This episode's guest:
Dr Terra Ziporyn Snider is an award-winning novelist, playwright, science writer and the co-founder and Executive Director of Start School Later, a coalition of health professionals, sleep scientists, educators, parents, students, and other concerned citizens dedicated to increasing public awareness about the relationship between sleep and school hours and to ensuring school start times compatible with health, safety, education, and equity.
A former associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), she is the author of many popular health and medical publications including The New Harvard Guide to Women’s Health. Terra has a BA in both history and biology from Yale University, where she studied playwriting with Ted Tally, and a PhD in the history of science and medicine from the University of Chicago.
Start School Later website : https://www.startschoollater.net/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terra-ziporyn-b442911/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/terraziporyn More Resources: Sleep in Adolescents: The Perfect Storm (publication by Dr Mary Carskadon) : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130594/
Interview with Phyllis Payne: http://sleepjunkies.com/start-school-later-interview/
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/start-school-later-movement/ More Episodes:
Full Transcript Jeff Mann (JM): Good afternoon, and I'm very excited to have on the other end of the line Dr. Terra Ziporyn Snider. Today we're going to talk about a pretty hot topic, “Start School Later.” Couldn't really have anyone more qualified to talk about the subject. Dr. Snider is one of the cofounders of the movement. Hi Terra.
Dr Terra Ziporyn Snider (TS) : Well hi. How are you?
JM: I'm really good, thanks. I'm really excited to talk to you and thanks so much for coming on the podcast.
TS: It is my pleasure. There is nothing I like more than discussing this particular topic and thank you for inviting me to speak.
JM: My pleasure. So what we're gonna do now, we're gonna assume that some people have heard about the Start School Later movement but we're gonna not make the assumption that everybody has heard about it.
So we're going to give it a bit of a background to this whole subject of adolescent sleep and teen sleep. We're going to be talking about this movement that started a few decades ago to try to tackle this problem by changing some of the very very early school start times in the S...
Getting a child to sleep through the night is one of the biggest challenges that parents face. In recent years, online wars have erupted between parents who advocate for behavioural sleep training methods and those who choose 'baby-led' parenting styles.
Much of the antagonism stems from the misunderstanding that sleep training is synonymous with so-called 'Cry It Out' techniques (aka extinction), most famously popularised by Dr Richard Ferber. But as our guest Dr Craig Canapari explains in this episode, sleep training encompasses much more than extinction methods, and includes a wide array of strategies and techniques for tackling sleep problems in babies, toddlers and even school-age kids.
Join us as we bust the myths, the stigmas and the misconceptions of what sleep training really is, and explore some of the techniques that Dr Canapari uses in his practice at Yale and in his book, It's Never Too Late to Sleep Train. This episode's guest:
Dr. Canapari is an Associate Professor and the director of the Pediatric Sleep Program at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is Board Certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Pulmonology, and Sleep Medicine. His interests include general pulmonary issues, pediatric sleep problems, and the respiratory issues of children with neuromuscular disease, as well as the use of emerging technology to disseminate useful information about sleep disorders to families.
Dr Canapari's website: https://drcraigcanapari.com/
The book: https://www.amazon.com/Its-Never-Late-Sleep-Train-ebook/dp/B07GD4NN48
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-canapari-b7247350/
Yale: https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/craig_canapari/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/drcanapari More Resources: Ferber vs Sears: http://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-training-cry-it-out/
Baby Sleep Training Basics: https://www.babycenter.com/0_baby-sleep-training-the-basics_1505715.bc
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/redefining-sleep-training/ More Episodes:
Lucid dreaming is a wildly popular, but often misunderstood phenomenon. But alongside the fantasy narratives of movies like Inception, and its adoption into mysticism and New Age beliefs, lucid dreaming is also steeped in a rich and diverse body of modern scientific research.
In today's podcast we speak to two guests, who as well as being lucid dreamers themselves, are also at the forefront of the science of lucid dreaming.
We take a wide-ranging, science-based look at exactly what lucid dreaming is, the physiology of the sleeping brain, a brief history of lucid dreaming research, and a breakdown of the different types of techniques to induce lucid dreaming, including cognitive methods, utilizing wearables and external stimuli, and pharmacological approaches. This episode's guests: Curzio Vasapollo, developer of Zmax
Curzio Vasapollo is the inventor of Zmax, an EEG-based sleep acquisition tool for monitoring sleep accurately outside of the sleep lab with applications for sleep research, lucid dreaming and bio/neuro-feedback
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Curzio_Vasapollo
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curzio-vasapollo-a36003101/
Zmax Platform: http://hypnodynecorp.com/
Achilleas Pavlou is a 3rd year Ph.D. candidate investigating lucid dream induction techniques and individual differences in lucid dream frequency. His interests include sleep research, lucid dream science, neuro/biofeedback & wearable technology.
Newsweek article by Achilleas Pavlou: https://www.newsweek.com/lucid-dream-howto-guide-instructions-1445163
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/achilleas-pavlou/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Achilleas_Pavlou
Review of Portable Devices for Lucid Dreaming: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2019.00428/full More Resources: Brief history of lucid dreaming research: https://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/is-lucid-dreaming-real.html
MILD induction technique: https://www.sciencealert.com/science-has-found-a-drug-free-way-to-unlock-the-power-of-lucid-dreaming
Tim Ferris on lucid dreaming - https://tim.blog/2009/09/21/how-to-lucid-dream/
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We all know what it's like to get out of the 'wrong side of bed'. Grumpiness, short temper, slow thinking - these are all traits associated with lack of sleep, or poor quality sleep.
But a mounting body of evidence shows us that poor sleep can also affect our moral and ethical behaviour, our basic sense of what's right and wrong. Indeed studies have shown that sub-optimal sleep can increase the likelihood of people cheating, lying and even abusive behaviour.
In today's episode we talk to management professor Christopher M. Barnes, who specialises in looking at how sleep loss affects our moral and ethical behaviours, how sleep deprivation affects work outcomes, leadership and employee relations. This episode’s guest:
Christopher M. Barnes is an Associate Professor of Management in the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. His research examines the relationship between sleep and work. He examines how sleep and sleep deprivation influence work outcomes, as well as how work influences sleep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8rpaCSm708 Resources: Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Barnes5
Foster School of Business: https://foster.uw.edu/faculty-research/directory/christopher-barnes/
Chris @ Huffington Post: https://www.huffpost.com/author/chris24b-363
Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8rpaCSm708
Twitter @chris24barnes: https://twitter.com/chris24barnes
More about sleep and ethical behaviour: http://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-morality-ethical-behavior/ More Episodes:
When it comes to treating insomnia, we're usually told that there are no quick fixes. Although a relatively recent development, the recommended first-line treatment for insomnia is usually cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT-I), a course of treatment which, although highly effective, takes several weeks to complete.
But in the past 10 years, researchers at Flinders University have been researching and testing a novel behavioural therapy for insomnia called Intensive Sleep Retraining which, incredibly, can be administered during a single 24-hour period.
In this episode we talk to Hannah Scott one of the researchers at Flinders, about the theoretical underpinnings behind Intensive Sleep Retraining (ISR), its administration, and how ISR is beginning to make its way out of the sleep lab and into the hands of consumers.
This episode’s guest:
Hannah Scott is a sleep researcher and PhD Candidate at Flinders University. She was awarded her Bachelor of Psychology (Honours – First Class) from Flinders University in 2016. Her Honours project tested the accuracy of a smartphone application for estimating sleep onset called Sleep On Cue, the results of which have been recently published in a top sleep journal. Drawing upon her Honours project, Hannah collaborated with her PhD Supervisors, Emeritus Prof Leon Lack and Dr Nicole Lovato, and Re-Time Pty Ltd to develop a new sleep wearable device called THIM. Resources: 2019 review paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1556407X19300050
Hannah Scott @ Flinders: https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/hannah.scott
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-scott-sleep/
Twitter @1HannahScott: https://twitter.com/1hannahscott
Thim wearable: https://thim.io/
Sleep On Cue App: https://sleeponq.com/ More Episodes:
In just 10 years, ASMR has grown from a fringe Youtube trend into a mainstream cultural phenomenon, boasting billions of video views, and even a Superbowl commercial.
Despite millions claiming that ASMR induces relaxation and helps them to get to sleep, there is still only a tiny body of scientific research to lend any credence to this often bizarre phenomenon.
In today's episode we speak to sleep physiologist Stephanie Romiszewski, who teamed up last year in a video collaboration with popular ASMR content creator Emma Smith aka 'Whispers Red' to produce the first ever sleep education video in an ASMR format.
We take a deep dive into ASMR, exploring the science, the history, and how ASMR fits into the existing tools and techniques that ordinary folks and sleep professionals can employ to aid relaxation and perhaps better sleep too.
This episode’s guest:
Stephanie Romiszewski is a specialist sleep physiologist and Director of Sleepyhead Clinic. With a Master's degree focused in Behavioural sleep Medicine, Stephanie has a demonstrated history of working in the sleep medicine and wellness industry, as a research scientist, clinician and spokesperson. Stephanie is skilled in diagnosing and treating sleep disorders, disseminating science to the public through television media and medical/legal work. Sleepyhead Clinic ASMR video collaboration with WhispersRedASMR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHE3fFgTr2U Resources: Sleepyhead Clinic: https://sleepyheadclinic.co.uk/
Twitter @sleepyclinic: https://twitter.com/sleepyclinic
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sleepyheadclinic
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-romiszewski-31b85049/
Secrets of Sleep TV Series: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-secrets-of-sleep
More about ASMR: http://sleepjunkies.com/what-is-asmr/ More Episodes:
Over the last decade, mindfulness - a secular version of some of the rituals, beliefs and meditation practices originating in ancient Buddhism - has grown into a massive wellbeing trend.
From hugely successful apps like Headspace and Calm to corporate wellness programs and government initiatives, mindfulness and meditation techniques have captured the public imagination.
One of the most popular uses of mindfulness is to facilitate relaxation and help with sleep problems. In today's podcast we talk to mindfulness expert Hope Bastine to explain the origins, the science and the practice of modern mindfulness and the ways it can be used if you're experiencing issues with your sleep. This episode’s guest:
Hope Bastine is the founder of wellbeing company, Fresh Perception and is a Mental Health Foundation certified Mindfulness Cognitive Trainer incorporating positive psychology, yoga, and mindfulness-based concepts in her work. She has specialized in insomnia and trauma recovery research with an MSc in Applied Mental Health Research at King's College London. She is currently researching her PhD in Human Flourishing at the University of Nottingham.
She works as a sleep psychology consultant for Simba Sleep and leads mindfulness and welbeing workshops across Europe. She is an event guest speaker (JAN and HR HiBoB) and a sought-after lifestyle psychology expert contributor to leading publications.
Resources:
Fresh Perception: https://www.freshperception.com/
Twitter @FPWellbeing : https://twitter.com/FPWellbeing
Instagram @freshperception: https://www.instagram.com/freshperception/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hopebastine More Episodes:
In recent years, the world of professional sports and athletics has 'woken up' to the idea that sleep plays a vitally important role in optimizing athletic ability and performance.
Today we're talking to Dr Amy M. Bender, a sleep scientist who has spent her life involved in many competitive sports activities, about the importance of sleep with regards to fitness, exercise and sports, but not just for competitive athletes, but for anyone who wants to ensure they're making the most of their fitness regime. This episode’s guest:
Dr Amy M. Bender is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Calgary Counselling Centre. Previously she was the Clinical Program Director of Athlete Services at Centre for Sleep and Human Performance and also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at University of Calgary.
She received her PhD and Master of Science degrees in Experimental Psychology from Washington State University specializing in sleep EEG. She has developed sleep intervention protocols for numerous Canadian National Teams. She's an athlete herself, a Hall of Fame basketball player, has summited a handful of volcanoes, completed an Ironman in 2009, and is also mom to 3 young children all under the age of five. Resources: Twitter @sleep4sport : https://twitter.com/Sleep4Sport
Instagram @sleep4sport: https://www.instagram.com/sleep4sport
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-m-bender-ms-phd-b8087884/
Athlete Sleep Screening Questionnaire: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29869021
Sleep Fitness Infographic: http://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-fitness-routine/ More Episodes:
Despite the constant warnings about the negative health impacts of shift work, the 20-30% of the workforce who work nights and irregular hours provide a vital function to our modern 24/7 society.
So what are the best practices for shift workers to balance the demands of working shifts, disrupted sleep schedules and all the health, emotional implication this entails?
We speak to Carolyn Schur who has been helping employers and workers develop practical, evidence-based strategies to cope with all the challenges of working shifts and nights. This episode’s guest:
Carolyn Schur is a sleep educator and coach who helps shiftworkers and those with insomnia sleep better. Carolyn works with organizations throughout Canada and the United States using her expertise to optimize employee performance and minimize absenteeism, risk and health costs.
Her specialities include shiftwork, fatigue management, insomnia and sleep disorders, 'night owl' behavior, relationships, communication, conflict. Resources: Website: https://carolynschur.com/
Twitter @schurgoodesleep : https://twitter.com/schurgoodesleep
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolynschur/ More Episodes:
We talk with Guy Leschziner, world-renowned neurologist, sleep physician and the author of a new book, The Nocturnal Brain: Tales of Nightmares and Neuroscience, a fascinating journey interweaving real life stories with cutting edge sleep science. This episode’s guest:
Dr Guy Leschziner is a consultant neurologist at London Bridge Hospital, the Cromwell Hospital and within the Department of Neurology and Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. He is the clinical lead for the Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's Hospital, one of Europe's largest sleep units and is a Reader in Neurology at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London.
He recently presented a three part series on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service on the brain and sleep - "Mysteries of Sleep" and has also recently filmed "The Secrets of Sleep" for Channel 4 Television. Prefer to read? Download the full episode transcript here
Resources: Website: http://www.guyleschziner.com/
Twitter @guy_lesch : https://twitter.com/guy_lesch
Book, The Nocturnal Brain: https://amzn.to/2IjtiZ6
BBC Radio 4 Series, Mysteries of Sleep: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jj9zw
Channel 4 TV Series, Secrets of Sleep: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-secrets-of-sleep
Sleep Disorders Clinic, Guys & St Thomas: https://bit.ly/2KEkCi3 More Episodes:
Full Transcript Jeff Mann: 01:36 Good morning. I'm sitting here today with Dr. Guy Leschziner and he's very kindly invited me down to Nuffield House, which is the location of the Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London. Thanks very much. And good morning Guy.
Guy Leschziner: 01:53 Morning.
Jeff Mann: 01:54 Let me give you a brief introduction. Guy is a consultant neurologist at the Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy's and St Thomas'. You're the clinical lead, is that right? So you head up the clinical team here. He's also a reader in neurology at Kings College and you do clinics here in neurology and sleep disorders and epilepsy. You also lecture and you've got lots and lots of research interests in various sleep disorders.
If that's not enough, also in the last couple of years, Guy has also been heavily involved in some public education projects. One of them we're here to talk about specifically, which is a new book. It's a great book, called The Nocturnal Brain. We'll talk a little bit more about that later. And also you've recently done a three part series on BBC Radio Four and a TV series, the Secrets of Sleep. Now, how do you manage to fit all that in?
Guy Leschziner: 02:49 The answer to that is with great difficulty. I think it's always a bit of a juggling act and certainly it's a case of prioritizing certain projects at any one time. So I think probably everything suffers including personal life, but it's just a case of trying to achieve that right balance.
Jeff Mann: 03:09 So it's probably an impossible question, what's a typical day for the clinical lead at Guys?
Guy Leschziner: 03:15 The typical day is much like any other consultant really. I do clinics and I do ward rounds on the neurology side. Some management issues, particularly in terms of dealing with a very big service like the Sleep Disorder service here. We've got, I think at last count 15 or 16 doctors of which the vast majority are consultants that work within the sleep disorder centre.
03:43 So you can imagine that when you're running a clinical service trying to get commercial and research trials going and all the management that comes with being within a large bureaucratic organization like the NHS, that keeps you pretty busy.
Jeff Mann: 03:59 So I wasn't aware, I'm actually just down the road from here. I'm two stops on the metro, but this is one of the largest sleep units in Europe, I believe.
Guy Leschziner: 04:07 I think that it's very difficult to get figures,
What are the barriers for consumer sleep wearables being taken seriously as accurate, reliable sleep measurement tools by the research and clinical communities?
In the second part of this discussion we talk about the problems of proprietary algorithms, raw data access, and the challenges that need to be met by both science and commerce.
For Part 1 of the discussion see: http://sleepjunkies.com/the-great-sleep-tracker-debate-part-1 Prefer to read? Download the full episode transcript here
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2:52 The difficulty in creating validation standards for consumer sleep trackers 4:17 Do consumer sleep trackers need to be regulated? 5:45 Getting 'under the hood', proprietary algorithms, raw data access 7:02 Understanding commercial incentives, intellectual property 8:25 Stability of data, algorithm updates, lack of transparency 9:12 People are basing health decisions on consumer sleep trackers 10:18 Consumer wearables have great potential but they are 'black boxes' 11:00 Data privacy, cloud-based platforms, security 12:00 Data loss. How reliable are consumer wearables? 15:23 The danger of using a sleep wearable if you have a sleep disorder 19:10 Putting manufacturer's claims into the spotlight 24:08 Wearables that have already been validated, Fitbit, Jawbone, Oura Ring 25:19 Choosing a demographic for the validation studies 26:28 Total sleep time (TST) estimations are pretty good in consumer wearables 27:21 Will consumer wearables ever be able to do accurate sleep staging? 29:33 Sleepscore - are commercial, proprietary validation systems useful? 31:54 What's are some general tips for choosing a sleep tracker? 35:43 Why there's no such thing as the 'best sleep tracker' 36:38 Orthosomnia, when sleep tracking can cause anxiety 40:47 A summary of all the issues discussed
This episode’s guest:
Jesse Cook is a doctoral student within the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the primary mentoring of David Plante, MD, PhD. Previously, he completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona, whereby he assisted in projects directed by Dr Richard Bootzin.
Jesse's research primarily focus on the assessment and treatment of persons with unexplained excessive daytime sleepiness. Additionally, he has published multiple papers evaluating the utility and ability of wearable consumer technologies as a sleep assessor, relative to PSG.
You can reach Jesse by email at jdcook4@wisc.edu Resources: Jesse Cook Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jesse_Cook3
Jesse on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SleepAndSports
Review: Wearable Sleep Technology in Clinical and Research Settings: https://bit.ly/2K4e9MV
Fitbit/NIH research collaboration: https://bit.ly/2RUzsDa Fitbit Alta HR validation study: https://bit.ly/2Ufbqor Fitbit Flex validation study: https://bit.ly/2TVPLga Jawbone UP3 validation study: https://bit.ly/2UeilhT
American Academy of Sleep Medicine: https://aasm.org/
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Full Transcript Jeff Mann: 02:12 I just want to talk about some of these dilemmas and just outline them. These are like the problems that need to be solved if we're going to have a situation where consumers are able to buy a device to monitor their sleep and be confident what is telling them is actually what it's doing. But also from the research side and medicine are able to rely on these devices as well and have some kind of structure and framework where they're not guessing.
So some of the problems are, there's no standards for validating, for designing studies. So briefly, you know, how do we start to tackle that situation?
Jesse Cook: 02:53 Yeah. That one's challenging. You know, we've talked about this quite a bit as we've jumped around. One are the main problems that arises here that even as an isolated researcher doing prudent, effective research,
How accurate is your sleep tracker? Are consumer sleep wearables good enough to used for research and clinical purposes? Join us as we navigate the complex issues surrounding marketing claims, scientific validation, reliability, raw data and why 'black boxes' technology is an impediment to research.
In this first instalment of a 2-part episode, we talk about the rapid improvement that consumer sleep tracker have made in a short amount of time, and how, compared to expensive validated technology like actigraphy, could potentially unleash powerful new ways to advance sleep science.
For Part 2 of the discussion: http://sleepjunkies.com/the-great-sleep-tracker-debate-part-2 Prefer to read? Download the full episode transcript here
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2:48 Introducing Jesse Cook 4:43 Discussing the review 'Wearable Sleep Technology in Clinical and Research Settings' 6:50 The lack of incentives for rigorous validation of consumer sleep trackers (CST) 10:18 CST have great potential but they are 'black boxes' 13:29 Actigraphs and the first generation consumer sleep wearables 16:20 Newer generation sleep wearables are getting much more accurate 21:52 Is it worth paying $1000 for a clinical actigraph? 25:21 Comparing CST measurement techniques to polysomnography 31:32 REM sensitivity of CST has improved from 30% to 60% in only a few years 32:40 The problem with detecting sleep from 'motionless wake' 37:02 Machine learning - the 'low hanging fruit' to improve accuracy of CST 40:09 Challenge for doctors when patients report use consumer sleep trackers 41:37 Fitbit, NIH and big data initiatives and future potential
This episode’s guest:
Jesse Cook is a doctoral student within the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the primary mentoring of David Plante, MD, PhD. Previously, he completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona, whereby he assisted in projects directed by Dr Richard Bootzin.
Jesse's research primarily focus on the assessment and treatment of persons with unexplained excessive daytime sleepiness. Additionally, he has published multiple papers evaluating the utility and ability of wearable consumer technologies as a sleep assessor, relative to PSG. You can reach Jesse by email at jdcook4@wisc.edu Resources: Jesse Cook Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jesse_Cook3
Jesse on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SleepAndSports
Review: Wearable Sleep Technology in Clinical and Research Settings: https://bit.ly/2K4e9MV
Fitbit/NIH research collaboration: https://bit.ly/2RUzsDa
Orthosomnia: http://jcsm.aasm.org/viewabstract.aspx?pid=30955
Philips Actigraphy devices: http://www.actigraphy.com/solutions/actigraphy.html
Sleep tracking guide: http://sleepjunkies.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-sleep-tracking/ More Episodes:
Full transcript: Jeff Mann: 02:18 Good afternoon. I'm joined here with Jesse Cook. Hi Jesse and thanks for joining us today.
Jesse Cook: 02:25 Thank you for having this discussion. I'm really excited to be here.
Jeff Mann: 02:29 I'm really excited. We had a brief chat earlier in the week and I could tell that you've got the same sort of passion and interest. Jesse's a a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, can you give us a little background to your academic life and how you got involved in sleep?
Jesse Cook: 02:49 Yeah, absolutely. So I was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona in Tucson and I joined the late Dr. Richard Bootzin's sleep laboratory and spent a couple of years as a research assistant under his guidance and really fell in love with the field of sleep.
I didn't realize initially how vast the topic was and the implications that it had on so many different aspects of life, whether it's performance, health, your day to day mood, all sorts of things.
It really just invigorated me to continue on. And so upon graduating,
Using yoga, meditation and a range of complimentary physical therapies, our guest today, integrative sleep therapist and trainer Deidre O'Connor tells the story of her very personal journey to solving her sleep problems. Skip to sections:
2:51 Introduction 4:05 The decision to travel and study yoga in India 4:45 Bihar School of Yoga, travelling to Thailand, Buddhist monasteries 6:46 How yoga, meditation is conceived in India, contrasted with Western notions 8:22 Yoga and meditation, it's not just about the physical practice 9:51 Finding value in stillness, savasana 11:29 Life changes and the onset of sleep problems 12:05 Yoga and meditation couldn't fix the problems 13:00 Unconscious thought processes, going deeper to explore the root causes 14:32 Going beyond the 'top layers' of stress and anxiety 16:05 Trauma: dealing with deep-rooted issues 17:01 Diving into the specific practises 18:08 Deep pressure weight, weighted blankets, the enteric nervous system, serotonin 19:55 Bedtime yoga, calming poses you can do in bed 21:48 Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems 23:08 Embodied mindfulness, taming the monkey mind 24:55 Deep breathing, guided breathing exercises, Dr Andrew Weil 26:14 Yoga nidra 27:00 Craniosacral therapy, osteopathy 28:38 Final thoughts, coming from a place of extraordinary anxiety
This episode’s guest:
Deirdre O'Connor has been exploring, training, teaching yoga for over 20 years. She began at the Bihar School of Yoga in India exploring many different Yoga styles – Hatha, Bhakti, Jhana and Karma Yoga.
She trained further in meditation and Buddhist philosophy, living in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, Thai forest retreat centres and Yogic ashrams in Rishikesh.
In 2013 she created and developed her Deep Sleep Workshops and Trainings, initially in response to her own experience of restless, sleepless nights, and wanting to find a way through them without resorting to sleep medication . Resources: Deep Sleep Clinic Website: http://www.deepsleepclinic.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Deep-Sleep-Clinic-348304698694772/
What is Yoga Nidra?: http://sleepjunkies.com/yoga-nidra-for-sleep/
Craniosacral therapy: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318490.php More Episodes:
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From the earliest civilisations to the present day, humans have been fascinated by the many mysteries of dreams and dreaming. But in the 20th century, the discovery of REM sleep kickstarted a new era of scientific enquiry in dream research.
We talk to sleep and dream researcher Dr Antonio Zadra about the history of dream research, from ancient ideas, to the leading modern theories of the function of dreams. Skip to sections:
1:45 Introduction 2:30 The lucid dream that inspired Dr Zadra's interest in the field 4:38 Dr Zadra's current research interests 7:05 Public perceptions of dreaming, dream interpretation 9:01 Ancient ideas: dreams as 'messages from the gods' 11:02 Dreams as results of 'bodily processes' 14:18 Why Freud's ideas were not as original as most people think 16:06 The forgotten pioneers of dream research 20:50 Jung, archetypes and dreams as collective experiences 23:21 Dream symbolism, are dream dictionaries accurate? 26:37 Is dream interpretation connected to the function of dreams? 32:14 The 20th century and the discovery of REM sleep 34:37 Why REM sleep is often associated exclusively with dreaming 37:15 An overview of modern theories of the function of dreams 37:59 Dreams as a way to solve problems 39:00 The threat-simulation theory of dreaming 40:00 Dreams as a means to simulate social interactions 41:10 Dream as spandrel's, epiphenomena 43:06 The overlap between sleep research and dream research 44:57 The overwhelming evidence to show that dreams are not random experiences 47:11 What does the future hold for dream research?
This episode’s guest:
Dr. Antonio Zadra is currently Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal and is a researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine (CARSM). Together with his students and a team of collaborators, he has published over 100 research articles and book chapters on dreams and parasomnias. In addition, Dr. Zadra has given over 160 conference presentations along with dozens of invited talks, including in the United States, Canada, England, Switzerland, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan. Resources: Zadra Lab: https://antoniozadra.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrZdreams More Episodes:
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We invited Dr Neil Stanley to take a look at some of the most recent scientific publications from the world of sleep research.With so many discoveries being made in the field we take a look at just four sleep science stories that have crossed into the mainstream press.
We analyse the findings, examine how and why the results are significant and ask what the implications for these new discoveries yields for future findings.
1:45 Introduction 3:22 Study 1: Adults enjoy better sleep in a rocking bed 6:39 Evolutionary biology, sleeping in trees 9:43 Explaining sleep spindles 13:19 Study 2: New parents face up to six years of sleep deprivation 17:44 Do journalists read the actual scientific paper? 20:37 Study 3: How exercise can shift a person's body clock 26:15 Could exercise be used to help coping with shift work? 29:35 Study 4: Some animals do not appear to need sleep 39:23 How modern humans are under less stress in evolutionary terms
Here are the links to the four news stories we looked at:
7:20 'Whole-Night Continuous Rocking Entrains Spontaneous Neural Oscillations with Benefits for Sleep and Memory' Publication: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(18)31662-2
News report: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/02/01/rock-a-bye-adult-study-shows-grown-ups-enjoy-better-sleep-and-memory-consolidation-in-a-rocking-bed/
13:15 'Long-term effects of pregnancy and childbirth on sleep satisfaction and duration of first-time and experienced mothers and fathers' Publication: https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sleep/zsz015/5289255 News report: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-parents-may-face-six-years-disrupted-sleep-180971583/
22:25 'Human Circadian Phase‐Response Curves for Exercise' Publication: https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP276943 News report: https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/tps-eim021819.php#
35:42 'Most sleep does not serve a vital function: Evidence from Drosophila melanogaster' Publication: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/2/eaau9253 News report: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/scientists-say-every-animal-needs-sleep-these-fruit-flies-didn-t-get-memo? This episode’s guest: Dr Neil Stanley
Dr Neil Stanley has been been involved in sleep research for over 30 years, and describes himself plain and simply as a ‘sleep expert’.
Dr Stanley’s website – www.sleepconsultancy.com How To Sleep Well book – https://amzn.to/2PjTZfl More Episodes
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Timeshifter is new app for treating jet lag based on research using timed-light exposure to shift your circadian rhythms quickly into your new time zone. We speak to CEO Mickey Beyer-Clausen about the first science-based integrative solution to effectively treat the symptoms of jetlag. Skip to highlights
03:14 Introducing Mickey Beyer-Clausen 05:24 The significant consequences of jet lag for business and vacations 08:07 Common myths, hacks and misconceptions about jet lag 08:24 Why generic solutions for jet lag don't work - it has to be personalized 10:41 There are little bits of truth in many jet lag solutions, but not the whole truth 12:29 Meeting Dr Steven Lockley of Harvard Medical School - 'a real gift' 15:10 Dr Lockley's work with elite athletes, NASA astronauts and Formula 1 drivers 16:32 Timed light exposure - the basic science behind the Timeshifter app 20:46 The 'magical' effects of timed light exposure 24:01 Using melatonin to treat jet lag with Timeshifter 28:38 Energy level components in Timeshifter - caffeine, power-napping 32:18 Everyone else is doing it wrong... 34:32 The fun element of Timeshifting 39:32 Walkthrough of the Timeshifter app 42:40 'This is not a gimmick'... 44:35 The future - a platform for circadian shifting
Commercial jet travel has been around since the 1950's. But as well as revolutionising the way humans were able to traverse the globe, it brought an unforeseen consequence - jet lag.
Jet lag is a physiological condition that arises from the disruption to our circadian rhythms when travelling east to west across different time zones. For 200,000 years, humans have evolved to live in synchrony with the natural 24 hour cycle of day and night.
When these cycles are disrupted, for instance by crossing the globe to the other side of the world, it plays havoc with our health, causing an array of problems, not just to our sleep, but also digestion, hormone regulation, body temperature, cognitive function and many other factors.
Despite all of the progress we've made in science and medicine in the last , up until now, there's never been a reliable, effective treatment for travellers to combat jet lag, and people have relied on hacks and tricks to mitigate the effects, for instance with sleeping pills, staying awake, or just attempting to power through the debilitating symptoms of fatigue and circadian disruption.
However, in today's podcast we talk to an entrepreneur who has teamed up with one of the world's leading scientists in combating the effects of jet lag. Together they have developed a new app, Timeshifter, which is based on decades of research into how timed light exposure can be used to shift an individual's body clock.
We talk to Timeshifter CEO Mickey Beyer-Clausen about the science behind the app, based on the work of co-founder Dr Steven Lockley, a pioneer in sleep science and circadian biology. This Episode's Guest Mickey Beyer-Clausen , co-founder and CEO of Timeshifter
Mickey Beyer-Clausen is a Danish-born, New York-based serial entrepreneur and philanthropist. In the ’90s, he was one of the first to launch successful Internet businesses and today he's building companies around innovations that have the potential to improve the human or planetary condition. Mickey is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Timeshifter, which is building a platform for circadian shifting to solve major performance and health challenges with an initial focus on jet lag. Resources: Website: https://www.timeshifter.com/
2012 NY Times Article about light and jet lag: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/travel/a-battle-plan-for-jet-lag.html More Episodes:
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An in-depth conversation with licensed naturopathic doctor Josh Corn about using natural medicine to treat sleep problems. We discuss different herbs and supplements, dispel some of the myths about naturopathy and why public perceptions are often wrong. Prefer to read? Download the full episode transcript here
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03:23 Introducing Dr Josh Corn 04:59 Dr Josh Corn's training and research background 06:10 What is a naturopath? How does naturopathy fit into the wider world of medicine and healthcare 08:10 How and why natural medicine treats the 'whole patient' 09:20 Why the Wikipedia description of naturopathy is fake news 14:50 Why sometimes a naturopathic doctor will prescribe big pharma medications 16:30 The intersection between naturopathy, ancient medicine, Ayurveda, Chinese medicine 18:40 Dealing with critics and skeptics 20:28 The main distinction between natural sleep supplements and herbs and pharmaceutical meds/ sleeping pills 25:44 Diagnosing sleep disorders and working alongside sleep specialists 27:30 How to choose over the counter sleep supplements, herbs 29:44 Social media, advertising, regulation and the problems in choosing and buying supplements 32:26 Melatonin for sleep, issues with dosages 34:14 Medicinal cannabis for sleep 37:30 Valerian root for sleep 39:43 Passion flower for sleep 40:43 Ashwaganda for sleep 43:07 Chamomile for sleep 44:04 Hops for sleep 46:33 Kava for sleep 50:10 Magnesium for sleep 52:33Phosphatidyl serine for sleep 54:44 5-HTP for sleep 56:08 General guidelines for choosing herbs and supplements for sleep
Dr Josh Corn is a licensed naturopathic doctor and in this episode he tells us about the types of herbs and supplements he uses to treat patients he sees with sleep issues.
Dr Corn works as a primary care provider in the state of Oregon and graduated from National University of Natural Medicine, the oldest accredited naturopathic medical university in North America and a leader in natural medicine education and evidence-based research.
As well as discussing some of the most common natural, plant based sleep remedies, including valerian, passionflower, ashwagandha, chamomile, hops, we talk about the wider perceptions of naturopathy, the philosophy of treating the patient's wellbeing as a whole, and the differences between traditional medical care providers and naturopathy. This Episode's Guest Dr Josh Corn Instagram @dr.joshcorn
Dr Josh Corn is a licensed naturopathic doctor, natural medicine researcher and public speaker from Portland Oregon. Dr Corn graduated graduated from the National College of Natural Medicine with a Master of Science in Integrative Medicine Research. He uses botanical medicine, nutrition, pharmaceuticals, and lifestyle medicine to help patients achieve their health goals. Resources Website: https://www.drjoshcorn.com/
Instagram: @dr.joshcorn
American Association of Naturopathic Physicians: https://www.naturopathic.org/
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Full Transcript Jeff Mann: 00:00:08 Welcome to the Sleep Junkies podcast. My name is Jeff Mann and I'm the founder and editor of sleepjunkies.com and what do we do on the podcast? Well, we cover the whole conversation on sleep and today we're going to be talking about natural medicine. We're going to talk about naturopathy, natural sleep remedies.
00:00:28 And before you switch off and think this is going to be a talk full of quackery, snake oil and pseudo science. Take a pause. Okay, so the problem with natural medicine and natural therapies, whether they're for sleep or any other health condition, is not to do with efficacy. It's not to do with research, it's to do with the fact that there are people out there pretending to be experts pretending to be medical advisors who aren't and they are quacks.
A practical guide to optimising your sleep and circadian biology with light exposure in the day and blocking blue light at night. We talk to Thaddeus Owen, the Primal Hacker about blue light blocking glasses, getting naked outdoors in the morning and lots more. Prefer to read? Download the full episode transcript here
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1:44 What is biohacking? 4:57 Dave Asprey and modifying your biology 6:20 The pivotal moment when Thaddeus decided to pursue a life of optimal health 9:00 Primal Hacker: combining cutting edge science and ancestral health 10:32 Jumping into ice-holes, cold adaptation and cryotherapy 13:23 Thaddeus' TED Talk on light hacking 15:04 Light hack #1: getting sun exposure in the morning 16:15 How morning sunlight stimulates hormone and neurotransmitter production 17:40 How morning sunlight preconditions your skin to withstand ultraviolet light 20:40 New research which shows there are photoreceptors in the skin 21:30 How to be naked in the sun, even in a busy urban environment 22:51 Lux levels, indoor vs outdoor light intensity 26:22 Using consumer light therapy technology, Retimer glasses 31:07 How morning sunlight acts as a 'brake' for melaton 33:48 How do I get natural light if I work indoors all day? 37:30 Why do we need to block out blue light at night? 40:35 Blue blockers; wearing at night vs wearing in the day 43:50 Blue light blocking apps and software for laptops, phones and tablets 45:18 F.lux vs Iris - pros and cons 48:15 How to choose a pair of blue-blocking glasses 50:41 BPI 550 tint glasses 52:51 Recommended brands for best blue blocking glasses 54:32 How to check if your glasses are blocking the right wavelengths 56:51 How to create a blackout in your bedroom at night 59:27 Thoughts on smart lighting/circadian lighting for the home 01:01:46 Summing up: Light is free. It doesn't have to be complicated.
For 200,000 years, human physiology has adapted to live in sync with the daily cycle of night and day. And natural light is the most important environmental cue that helps to synchronise our biology to the 24 hour, or circadian rhythm.
But in the 21st century, artificial lighting, technology and 24/7 society has separated us from nature, and as a result, many of us, as a result of spending too much time indoors, too much time in front of screens, or staying up too light, suffer the health consequences of disrupting our circadian rhythms.
In today's podcast we talk to biohacker Thaddeus Owen, who for the last 12 years has been studying, and implementing ways to achieve optimal health, including using the latest research into how light affects our physiology and our sleep.
In this episode we go in-depth into explaining some practical ways to improve your sleep health, and general well-being with 'light hacking' including:
tips and strategies for achieving optimal sunlight exposure in the morning and throughout the day how sunlight contains information that triggers hormone production at different times during the day how to choose the best pair of blue light blocking glasses comparing blue light blocking apps like F.lux and Iris
and lots more. We hope you enjoy the episode!
This Episode's Guest Thaddeus Owen - @PrimalHacker
Thaddeus Owen is the co-founder or PrimalHacker.com. A certified Bulletproof Coach from the first ever class of coaches, holds a personal training certification, nutrition certification, Master’s degree in Holistic Nutrition and studied Chemical Engineering a long time ago. Resources Primal Hacker website: https://primalhacker.com/
Instagram: @primalhacker https://www.instagram.com/primalhacker/
Study: Infra-red light/ Skin conditioning https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4745411/
Article about non-visual photoreceptors: https://theconversation.com/seeing-without-eyes-the-unexpected-world-of-nonvisual-photoreception-79166
A practical guide to optimising your sleep and circadian biology with light exposure in the day and blocking blue light at night. We talk to Thaddeus Owen, the Primal Hacker about blue light blocking glasses, getting naked outdoors in the morning and lots more.
For 200,000 years, human physiology has adapted to live in sync with the daily cycle of night and day.
And natural light is the most important environmental cue that helps to synchronise our biology to the 24 hour, or circadian rhythm.
But in the 21st century, artificial lighting, technology and 24/7 society has separated us from nature, and as a result, many of us, as a result of spending too much time indoors, too much time in front of screens, or staying up too light, suffer the health consequences of disrupting our circadian rhythms.
In today's podcast we talk to biohacker Thaddeus Owen, who for the last 12 years has been studying, and implementing ways to achieve optimal health, including using the latest research into how light affects our physiology and our sleep.
In this episode we go in-depth into explaining some practical ways to improve your sleep health, and general well-being with 'light hacking' including:
tips and strategies for achieving optimal sunlight exposure in the morning and throughout the day
how sunlight contains information that triggers hormone production at different times during the day
how to choose the best pair of blue light blocking glasses
comparing blue light blocking apps like F.lux and Iris
and lots more. We hope you enjoy the episode!
This Episode's Guest
Thaddeus Owen is the co-founder or PrimalHacker.com. A certified Bulletproof Coach from the first ever class of coaches, holds a personal training certification, nutrition certification, Master’s degree in Holistic Nutrition and studied Chemical Engineering a long time ago.
Resources
Primal Hacker website: https://primalhacker.com/
Instagram: @primalhacker https://www.instagram.com/primalhacker/
Study: Infra-red light/ Skin conditioning https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4745411/
Article about non-visual photoreceptors: https://theconversation.com/seeing-without-eyes-the-unexpected-world-of-nonvisual-photoreception-79166
Article about skin/sun exposure: https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science
Tan through clothing https://www.kiniki.com/
f.lux: https://justgetflux.com/
Iris: https://iristech.co/
Episode Highlights
[1:45] What is biohacking?
[04:59] Dave Asprey and modifying your biology
[06:21] The pivotal moment when Thaddeus decided to pursue a life of optimal health
[09:01] Primal Hacker: combining cutting edge science and ancestral health
[10:33] Jumping into ice-holes, cold adaptation and cryotherapy
[13:24] Thaddeus' TED Talk on light hacking
[15:05] Light hack #1: getting sun exposure in the morning
[16:16] How morning sunlight stimulates hormone and neurotransmitter production
[17:41] How morning sunlight preconditions your skin to withstand ultraviolet light
[20:41] New research which shows there are photoreceptors in the skin
[21:31] How to be naked in the sun, even in a busy urban environment
[22:53] Lux levels, indoor vs outdoor light intensity
[26:24] Using consumer light therapy technology, Retimer glasses
[31:09] How morning sunlight acts as a 'brake' for melaton
[33:50] How do I get natural light if I work indoors all day?
[37:31] Why do we need to block out blue light at night?
[40:37] Blue blockers; wearing at night vs wearing in the day
[43:52] Blue light blocking apps and software for laptops, phones and tablets
[45:20] F.lux vs Iris - pros and cons
[48:17] How to choose a pair of blue-blocking glasses
[50:43] BPI 550 tint glasses
[52:53] Recommended brands for best blue blocking glasses
[54:34] How to check if your glasses are blocking the right wavelengths
[56:53] How to create a blackout in your bedroom at night
[59:29] Thoughts on smart lighting/circadian lighting for the home
[01:01:48] Summing up: Light is free. It doesn't have to be complicated.
We talk to clinical child psychologist Professor Michael Gradisar of Flinders University in Australia about his new book which looks at evidence-based techniques and strategies to help school age children with insomnia, parasomnias and other sleep problems. Prefer to read? Download the full episode transcript here
Episode Highlights
02:04 Introducing Professor Michael Gradisar 03:44 Dr Leon Lack and Flinders University history of sleep education 05:38 Specialising in sleep interventions for school age children 08:36 What types of sleep problems do school age kids experience? 11:30 What is 'normal' sleep for school age kids, and when is it 'problematic'? 14:39 Sleep hygiene basics for children, caffeine and soft drinks 15:59 More sleep hygiene tips: naps, sleep routines, technology 17:53 Screen time, blue light and sleep: why the associations are not as obvious as you might think 22:09 How do you decide when it's a good time to put your child to bed? 24:32 Chronotype, and why all kids' sleep need are different 27:07 Sleep restriction therapy - does it work for children? 33:25 Bedtime restriction therapy for kids, what is it? 36:13 Recognising the similarity in sleep deprivation and ADHD symptoms 39:29 Should parents give their kids melatonin? 41:11 How to find ways to get kids to voice their bedtime worries 46:28 Why do kids get anxious before bedtime? 50:14 What are child's parasomnias? 53:34 What's the difference between nightmares and night terrors? 55:57 Evidence-based techniques for dealing with childhood parasomnias 58:05 The difference between childhood and adolescent sleep problems 01:00:04 More about the book, Helping Your Child with Sleep Problems: A self-help guide for parents
New parents are inundated with advice on nurturing their newborn, including hundred of blogs, forums, and books dealing with every aspect of managing your baby's sleep.
But once past the infant and toddler years, sleep tends to become more manageable as routines ingrain themselves and habits become established.
However, for many children sleep problems persist beyond the early years into school age and when this happens, help can be harder to find.
Our guest for this episode of our podcast is the esteemed Professor Michael Gradisar who has a wealth of experience in dealing with the sleep problems of babies, children and adolescents in both clinical practice and research.
Discussing his new book, we talk to the professor about some of the evidence-based techniques he and his team have developed to help hundreds of children and their parents cope with sleep issues such as bedtime separation anxiety, insomnia, night-terrors and bedwetting.
This Episode's Guest
Michael Gradisar is a Professor in Clinical Child Psychology and the director of the Child & Adolescent Sleep Clinic at Flinders University, Australia.
Dr. Gradisar has specialized in the treatment of pediatric sleep problems since 2006 and has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Resources Book - https://www.amazon.com/Helping-Your-Child-Sleep-Problems/dp/1472138724
Faculty page - https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/michael.gradisar
Professor Gradisar's Clinic - https://www.flinders.edu.au/engage/community/clinics/child-adolescent-sleep-clinic More Episodes
Full Transcript Jeff Mann: 00:01:25 So I'm joined on the other end of the line all the way from Australia with Professor Michael Gradisar. Well it's good morning for you, so I'll say good morning, but it's evening here,
Prof. Michael Gradisar So I'll say good evening. You're welcome. And thanks for making this time.
Jeff Mann: 00:01:41 I just wondered if you could give people a bit of a background, how you got into sleep and where you've built up this practice and I believe you started out as a single clinical psychologist and now you've got a full team of researchers. Can,
A new report looks at the widespread impact of daylight saving time and how circadian disruptions affect every aspect of our sleep and health. We talk to lead author, Dr Miguel Meira e Cruz about the scientific consensus that's building about the harmful effects of DST. Episode Highlights
02:45 Introducing Dr Miguel Meira e Cruz
04:13 Recent proposals to abolish Daylight Saving Time (DST)
06:11 The origins and history of Daylight Saving Time
09:33 Sleep is only one of the many functions affected by DST
11:27 How DST impacts on sleep loss and circadian disruption
12:24 The difficulty of making associations between DST and sleep loss
13:45 Why sleep-related road traffic accidents are worse than drunk driving accidents
14:52 Does DST affect ethical decision making?
16:27 Why DST is not the same as jet-lag
20:14 The emerging field of circadian medicine
22:52 Chronopharmacology - the importance of taking medicines at the right time
25:10 Why permanent standard (winter) time is the appropriate time to maintain
Last year, the European Union proposed putting a permanent end to Daylight Saving Time (DST), the twice yearly practice of changing the clocks in order to maximise the amount of daylight during longer winter evenings.
But apart from the discussion around the economic advantages or disadvantages of DST, there's been little public debate, or enquiry into what's arguably a much more important factor - the widespread health impacts of disrupting our circadian clocks twice a year.
The most obvious impact of DST is how it affects our sleep patterns. And indeed, studies have suggested many associations between fatigue related accidents and reduced cognitive functions around the time of the clocks changing.
However, new research, in the field of circadian medicine is revealing that widespread circadian disruptions such as those caused by daylight saving time could be having a far wider impact on our health than previously thought.
In this episode we speak to researcher and sleep scientist Professor Miguel Meira e Cruz about a new report he has co-authored which examines the many detrimental effects of daylight saving time on our circadian timing system.
This Episode's Guest Dr Miguel Meira e Cruz
Dr Miguel Meira e Cruz is an academic researcher, professor and coordinator of the postgraduate course in Chronobiology and Sleep Medicine at CESPU, Porto, Lisbon. He is an affiliate of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory of the Cardiovascular Center, University of Lisbon, where he coordinates the sleep unit. Resources Website: http://miguelmeiracruz.com/me.html
Link to study on DST impact: https://www.ejinme.com/article/S0953-6205(19)30013-5/abstract More Episodes
CBT-I is a cognitive and behavioral-based therapy that is rapidly becoming a first line treatment for insomnia around the world. We ask psychologist and neuroscientist Dr Lindsay Browning to explain what CBT-I is, how it works, and why it's so effective. Prefer to read? Download the full episode transcript here
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02:04 introduction to Dr Lindsay Browning 03:51 the importance of a checking a sleep expert's credentials 08:49 the difference between counselling and cognitive therapy 11:19 intentional bias and how negative thoughts influence reinforce negative behaviors 15:00 how CBT-I has replaced sleeping pills as a recommended first-line treatment for insomnia 18:10 different CBT-I delivery systems: therapist, group therapy, online, self-directed 21:55 CBT-I group therapy vs one-to-one- therapy 23:45 explaining how a typical CBT-I therapy session works 26:22 completing a sleep diary 28:47 can you use a sleep tracker when doing CBT-I 32:35 behavorial recommendations and sleep restriction 34:45 Pavlov's dog and classical conditioning 41:55 stimulus control 44:34 CBT-I is not a magic bullet 45:42 cognitive aspects of CBT-I 49:54 keeping a bedside journal to clear your thoughts before bedtime 53:16 how long does a course of CBT-I last?
CBT-I (cognitive behavior therapy for insomnia) has in recent years become a first line recommended treatment in many countries for treating sleep problems that would have previously been tackled with prescription meds.
The reason for the rise in popularity of CBT-I is that studies have repeatedly shown positive, lasting effects that when patients successfully complete a course of treatment.
CBTI combines a suite of psychological and behavorial tools and techniques, and is designed to challenge the negative thought patterns associated with insomnia, and introduce behavorial changes to reduce the anxieties associated with sleep.
For this episode we talked to Chartered Psychologist and sleep therapist, Dr Lindsay Browning all about CBT-I, how it works, what a typical CBT-I treatment plan looks like, plus lots more. This Episode's Guest: Dr Lindsay Browning
Dr Lindsay Browning is a neuroscientist and sleep consultant from the UK with a Doctorate (DPhil) from the University of Oxford, an MSc. in Neuroscience and a BSc. in Psychology.
Having realised that there was a desperate need for help for people suffering from insomnia she founded Trouble Sleeping in 2006.
Dr Browning is a Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a member of the British Sleep Society and a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Resources: Trouble Sleeping - https://troublesleeping.co.uk/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/DrBrowningSleep
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/DrBrowningSleep/
Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/DrBrowning/
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Full transcript Jeff Mann: 00:08 Welcome to the Sleep Junkies podcast. My name's Jeff and I'm the founder and the editor of sleepjunkies.com. And at Sleep Junkies we cover the whole conversation on sleep, so we talk about the health and the science aspects.
00:23 We talk about the culture of sleep, we talk about the sleep industry, we talk about interesting new sleep products. Pretty much if there's an interesting topic and it's got anything to do with sleep, we'll cover it
00:34 And today's podcast is going to be all of that. The topic of CBT, which stands for cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia. And the reason we're going to talk about CBTi today is hopefully dispel a few myths, hopefully be a bit of it an explainer. A bit of an education to anyone that's looking for an effective treatment for insomnia. It's a cognitive and behavioural therapy. It's about changing your behaviour and changing your thinking rather than taking a medication.
Exploring the science and practice of power napping with sports physician Kasper Janssen. We look at the physical and cognitive benefits of napping and explain the practical steps how to manage naps at work and in your fitness regime. Prefer to read? Download the full episode transcript here
Episode Highlights
3:04 introducing Dr Kasper Janssen 5:38 myths and misconceptions about napping 6:12 the different cultures of napping round the world 6:47 how siesta culture is dying out 8:59 naps, consolidated sleep, biphasic sleep and polyphasic sleep 11:01 'shifting gears' - recognizing alertness throughout the day 14:53 is polyphasic sleep good for you? 18:01 20 minute power naps for mental recovery 20:21 power naps for increased memory, learning and prodcutivity 24:15 'full cycle' 90 minute naps, growth hormone and phsyical recovery 25:16 power naps for young parents and shift workers 27:45 do you need to sleep when you nap? 30:07 conditions when napping is NOT recommended 32:28 napping - why practise make perfect 34:16 how to plan your nap at work 35:55 Kasper's 7-step recipe for executing the perfect power nap 38:15 Why your car is the perfect power nap location 40:15 how to time your power nap 41:31 consumer sleep technology to help with power napping, Luuna Mask 43:26 tips for using power naps in your sports and fitness training 45:46 why sleep cycles are not always 90 minutes 46:52 Kasper's book , The Power Nap Paradox
In the 21st century, napping is making a resurgence. A mounting body of research is slowly starting to counter the age-old stigmas that napping is something fit only for pre-schoolers, the elderly, or the work-shy.
Some of the world's biggest companies like Google are embracing this sleep science as a means of boosting productivity, creative thinking, memory, cognition and combatting the general effects of fatigue in the workplace.
In addition, the world of elite sports is starting to understand how longer naps can be used to stimulate additional recovery in the daytime, allowing for more flexible training schedules.
In this episode we talk with power nap specialist Dr Kasper Janssen, a sports doctor who has in recent years began to focus his efforts in teaching and coaching both companies and athletes about the benefits and practicalities of doing napping the right way. This Episode's Guest: Dr Kasper Janssen, sports physician and power nap specialist
Kasper Janssen is a sports physician, researcher, speaker and power nap specialist from the Netherlands. He has worked with several sports federations in recent years, including as a doctor for the rowing team at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 . He also owns Nap @ work, which advises companies and gives workshops on utilizing power naps at work and is the author of The Powernap Paradox (currently only available in Dutch) Resources: Nap at Work - http://napatwork.nl/
Book - The Powernap Paradox - http://www.powernapparadox.nl/
Twitter - @KasperJanssen https://twitter.com/kasperjanssen
10 science backed reasons for napping - http://sleepjunkies.com/science-of-napping/ More Episodes:
Full transcript Jeff Mann: 02:30 Good morning, I'm here this morning with Dr Kasper Yansen and he's from the Netherlands on the other end of the line, not too far away from us in London. And I'm really, really excited and super pleased to have Kasper on the line here because we're going to talk about one of my favorite subjects to do with sleep. Kasper is a specialist in power napping. Good Morning Kasper.
Kasper Janssen: Thanks for the introduction. I'm very excited to be here.
Jeff Mann: 02:57 Can you just give us a little introduction about your background? You're a medical doctor and also you've been a researcher.
Kasper Janssen: Yes. I'm a sports physician. I was trained to treat athletes, elite athletes as well,
With new scientific discoveries being reported in the news and media on almost a daily basis, it's often hard to keep up with all the latest findings, so join us as we select just 4 recent publications from the world of sleep science, exploring the studies themselves, but also the wider context that new sleep research is reported in the media. Prefer to read? Download the full episode transcript here The four news stories we look at are:
[7:20] "Not just blue light, study says prolonged screen time alone disrupts sleep" alone-disrupts-sleep/13080/ Study link: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(18)31754-6
[13:15] "Light pollution may cause insomnia in older adults" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181130120446.htm Study link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30373695
[22:25] "Too Much Sleep Can Kill You, Scientists Say" https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/324475 Study link: https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehy695/5229545#126392935
[35:42] "Starting School Later Really Does Help Teens Get Sleep" www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/well/mind/starting-school-later-really-does-help-teens-get-sleep.html Study link: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/12/eaau6200 This episode’s guest: Dr Neil Stanley
Dr Neil Stanley has been been involved in sleep research for over 30 years, and describes himself plain and simply as a ‘sleep expert’.
Dr Stanley’s website – www.sleepconsultancy.com How To Sleep Well book – https://amzn.to/2PjTZfl Resources: Articles about blue light and sleep - http://sleepjunkies.com/tag/blue-light/ Start School Later interview - http://sleepjunkies.com/kids-and-family/start-school-later-interview/ Article about light pollution - http://sleepjunkies.com/blog/sleep-deprived-or-darkness-deprived/ More Episodes
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Jeff Mann: Well, this morning we're with Neil Stanley. Good Morning Neil.
Good morning.
Neil Stanley: Thanks so much for joining us this morning Neil. Can I, can I just ask you before we get into the nitty gritty, in your view, have you seen the amount of research and sleep science increase over the years?
00:44 Neil Stanley: No, absolutely. I mean I've been in this game for 37 years now and when I started one journal published papers about sleep, which was called Sleep, and there was sort of pretty much one textbook which was The Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine.
And now there's an absolute deluge of sleep information. I mean, there's tens of sleep journals, but the other thing that perhaps has changed is that papers pertaining to sleep aer published pretty much across the board.
And this is, this is of course a problem to try and keep on top of the field because, you know, whilst I am subscribing to the sleep journals, you can't subscribe to every journal. And so important information is coming out in an obscure to me as a sleep expert, obscure journals. And so you really do have to try and keep abreast of the information.
3:35 And so say 37 years ago, maybe a hundred hundred and 50 papers the year were published in sleep. Now it seems like there's 100 a week being published.
And what's interesting is, although there's all this information is actually making the field more complex rather than clearer, which I think the idea was to try and find out, you know, why we sleep, how we sleep when we sleep etc.
But all we're doing is making it vastly more difficult to actually find the answer. And that's one of the great challenges. And one of the reasons why the field is so very, very interesting.But I don't think we're any better understanding. We have much more information, but we have just about as much understanding. Unfortunately,
4:28 Jeff Mann: I love the fact that it's so complex. I was doing an interview, writing some interview questions for someone last week, and I asked the question, ‘how does a sleep expert, a sleep professional,
Bed industry veteran Jerry cuts through the hype and gives us the low down on what's really important about choosing the right mattress, and offers advice you won't commonly find on the internet. Skip to highlights
03:14 Introducing Jerry Cheshire the Beducator 05:48 The mattress industry from the 1990's to 'the disruptors' 08:25 Mattress types explained 10:19 The dominance of foam mattresses 12:19 Mistake #1: You don't try before you buy 18:22 Mistake #2: Assuming a firm mattress is best 24:07 Mistake #3: Choosing a mattress based on the number of springs 26:28 Mistake #4: Not checking the quality of the memory foam 32:53 Mistake #5: Not spending enough money
We spend a third of our lives in bed so choosing the right mattress is vital to ensuring your get the best quality sleep. We chat with Jerry Cheshire - aka the Beducator - about 5 common mistakes people make when shopping for a new mattress.
The mattress industry was revolutionised when Casper introduced the 'bed in a box' business model in 2014, offering competitive pricing and doorstep mattress delivery, all at the click of a button. But the convenience of buying online comes with a hidden cost.
Instead of selecting a mattress on how good it feels, we base our decisions on marketing and the word of mattress review sites. Bed industry veteran Jerry cuts through the hype and gives us the low down on what's really important about choosing the right mattress, and offers advice you won't commonly find on the internet. Prefer to read? Download the full episode transcript here
This Episode's Guest: Jerry Chesire aka the 'Beducator'
Jerry Chesire is the Owner/Director of Surrey Beds, an award winning entrepreneur and author and bed & mattress expert and sleep specialist. Known as 'The Beducator', Jerry specialises in transforming sleep deprived sub-somniacs into blissful sleepers using his 'Blissful S.L.E.E.P Method'. Resources: Surrey Beds - https://www.surreybeds.co.uk/
The Beducator - http://www.beducator.co.uk/
Sleeping Blissfully Book - https://amzn.to/2QQ7kAB
Jerry Cheshire on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thebeducator
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[00:46] Jeff Mann (JM) : So today we're going to talk about a topic is very important to the subject of sleep. We're going to talk about mattresses and we're going to talk about the buying decisions behind choosing a mattress and the different types of mattresses and to give a bit of context to the discussion, we have to look at what's happened in the mattress industry in the last five years. How Casper disrupted the mattress industry Now, just as companies like Uber, companies like Airbnb and Amazon has revolutionized taxis, hotels and retail shopping. Well the mattress industry which is worth tens of billions of dollars, has undergone his own technological revolution. This started in 2014 with a company called Casper, who invented what's now called the bed in a box model.
Instead of having to go to a physical retail store and lying down on a mattress and trying it out, you can now go online and choose what you want, click a button and then your mattress will turn up on the doorstep vacuum packed and nicely packaged, which is, which is great. It's really convenient. You save money because these companies not having to pay overheads for physical retail stores.
01:55 However, buying a mattress is not like buying a TV or a toaster. A mattress is a very tactile experience and it's crucial to the quality of your sleep. If you get it wrong, you're not going to sleep well. So what do we do about that? If companies like Casper and their competitors have wiped out all the mattress stores and there's nowhere left to go to try anything out, well you have to make better, more informed decisions.
And that's why I invited as a guest on today,
We spend a third of our lives in bed so choosing the right mattress is vital to ensuring your get the best quality sleep. We chat with Jerry Cheshire - aka the Beducator - about 5 common mistakes people make when shopping for a new mattress.
The mattress industry was revolutionised when Casper introduced the 'bed in a box' business model in 2014, offering competitive pricing and doorstep mattress delivery, all at the click of a button. But the convenience of buying online comes with a hidden cost.
Instead of selecting a mattress on how good it feels, we base our decisions on marketing and the word of mattress review sites. Bed industry veteran Jerry cuts through the hype and gives us the low down on what's really important about choosing the right mattress, and offers advice you won't commonly find on the internet.
This Episode's Guest:
Jerry Chesire the 'Beducator'
Owner/Director of Surrey Beds, award winning entrepreneur and author; bed & mattress expert and sleep specialist.
Links:
Surrey Beds - https://www.surreybeds.co.uk/
The Beducator - http://www.beducator.co.uk/
Sleeping Blissfully Book - https://amzn.to/2QQ7kAB
Jerry Cheshire on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thebeducator
Episode Homepage: https://sleepjunkies.com/podcast/mattress-buying-mistakes/
Highlights:
03:14 Introducing Jerry Cheshire the Beducator
05:48 The mattress industry from the 1990's to 'the disruptors'
08:25 Mattress types explained
10:19 The dominance of foam mattresses
12:19 Mistake #1: You don't try before you buy
18:22 Mistake #2: Assuming a firm mattress is best
24:32 Mistake #3: Choosing a mattress based on the number of springs
26:35 Mistake #4: Not checking the quality of the memory foam
32:53 Mistake #5: Not spending enough money
We talk to Curzio Vasapollo about the practicalities and challenges of measuring the sleeping brain using EEG (electroencephalography). We also discuss what happens in a sleep lab vs tracking your sleep at home, AI, biotech and loads more. Prefer to read? Download the full episode transcript here
Episode Highlights:
03:52 Description of ZMax platform 04:13 Zmax applications - research, lucid dreaming, neuro-feedback 07:47 What is EEG? 12:01 Misconceptions of 'brain-waves' 15:24 What is a hypnogram? 16:58 What is light sleep (N1 sleep)? 19:46 N2 sleep, K-complexes and sleep spindles 22:28 Slow wave (deep) sleep or N3 sleep 26:28 REM detection and lucid dreaming 31:15 Why a sleep cycles is not 90 minutes 32:33 Contrasting EEG sleep recording at home and in the sleep lab 32:33 The limitations of FitBits and movement based sleep trackers 35:04 Challenges of building an accurate EEG wearable 56:14 Turning raw EEG data into a usable hypnogram with AI 65:01 Lucid dreaming research using ZMax 69:05 Detecting sleep apnea with a wearable 73:05 the future of sleep technology is in biotech, not hardware
Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/podcast/measuring-the-sleeping-brain/ This episode's guest: Curzio Vasapollo, developer of Zmax
Curzio (Kurt) Vasapollo is the inventor of Zmax, an EEG-based sleep acquisition tool for monitoring sleep accurately outside of the sleep lab with applications for sleep research, lucid dreaming and bio/neuro-feedback Links: Zmax website - http://hypnodynecorp.com/ ResearchGate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Curzio_Vasapollo
Overview of EEG and sleep (Medscape) - https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1140322-overview Sleep tracking guide - http://sleepjunkies.com/features/the-ultimate-guide-to-sleep-tracking/
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Jeff: Hi Kurt how you doing?
Kurt: I'm doing fine thank you.
Jeff: I'm going to really try and pick your brains today. Before we get into the question and answer, I like to give guests the opportunity to what I call an elevator pitch and now I just mentioned you've created this platform called ZMax. Now, in a succinct way, because it's a very sophisticated platform that you've created, can you just give us a very brief overview what your platform does? Description of ZMax platform Kurt: So, ZMax is a sleep acquisition and analysis system. It consists of both hardware and software. The hardware is a comfortable headband that you put on your head before you go to sleep and the software is a toolset for displaying data, that is acquired and for analyzing features of sleep.
Some of the applications of ZMax for exemplar in sleep research, sleep researchers across Europe use ZMax to capture data from their participants in their sleep studies.
For example; the Stockholm University and Karolinska Institute, Radboud University, Netherlands Harrison Institute, in Amsterdam with Dr Van Someron. Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, University of Freiburg, University of Essex, University of Leeds.
Another application that comes to mind is lucid dreaming. ZMax has stimulation capabilities. So, for people that are interested in lucid dreaming ZMax is the most accurate EEG based sleep cue delivery system that's available.
It's also scriptable, the another one is biofeedback and neurofeedback. So, for example; ZMax captures the amount of oxygen in your blood and your heart rate movement and the muscle tension in your face. So, from these things, as you can see on our website as well, you can create relaxation setups and biofeedback software.
[05:22] Jeff: Okay, fantastic. So, Kurt can you tell us a bit about your journey into creating ZMax and how you came up with the initial idea for the platform and how you developed ZMax and where it is now? Creating an EEG Wearable Kurt: Well, ZMax started out as a lucid dreaming project and I had tried the Nova Dreamer,
Episode Homepage: https://sleepjunkies.com/podcast/brian-krohn-soundly-snoring-app/
Jeff Mann talks with Soundly CEO Dr Brian Krohn about snoring, innovation, digeridoos and space invaders.. amongst other other stuff
Way back in 2013, I wrote about a fascinating but bizarre sleep study which proved that playing the digeridoo was an effective alternative therapy for treating patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
I forget about this diverting piece of research until I met Brian Krohn at the Somnex Sleep Show in London last month. He was there to talk about his new app Soundly, a natural way to treat snoring which gamifies some of the therapeutic principles behind the digeridoo study.
Still in his early thirties, Dr Brian Krohn’s career has criss-crossed the fields of academia, innovation and entrepreneurship in an impressive array of projects both serious….. and not so serious.
These include pioneering a new method of manufacturing clean biodiesel, co-founding one of the largest hop-farms in the Midwest, developing diagnostic tools for neurosurgery, and oh, yeah, a Kickstarter that makes ‘magic wizard staffs‘
But now Brian’s mission is sleep, so we caught up after the show to talk more about his work as a scientist and entrepreneur, and how he’s created a natural method of reducing snoring by playing a retro video game. Enjoy!
Episode Highlights:
1:47 Introducing Dr Brian Krohn
2:41 What is the Soundly app?
4:16 Dr Brian Krohn explains his eclectic career
6:46 Academia and business. Oil and water?
8:50 Creating a research-led product
10:06 From climate change research to sleep science
14:46 A brief overview of snoring
18:06 Sleep apnea, snoring and digeridoos – the research
19:53 A ‘push-up’ for your breathing airway muscles
23:05 Space invaders: how to gamify a clinical therapy
25:37 Soundly: the clinical study
28:04 How long does it take to work?
31:02 Thoughts on the future of sleep medicine
34:34 Where to get the Soundly app
This episode’s guest:
This episode's guests:
Dr Brian Krohn
Still in his early thirties, Dr Brian Krohn’s career has traversed the fields of academia, innovation and entrepreneurship. We catch up with Dr Krohn to hear more about his eclectic career, his journey into sleep medicine and his revolutionary snoring app, Soundly.
Links:
Soundly App – http://sleepsound.ly/
Can a Digeridoo Cure Sleep Apnea – https://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-apnea/digeridoo-treatment-for-os/
Magic Wizard Stuff – https://magicwizardstaff.com/
Inspired by a bizarre sleep study involving the Australian digeridoo, Dr Brian Krohn has developed Soundly, an app that turns a proven clinical therapy for snoring into a fun, retro video game. Prefer to read? Download the full episode transcript here
Episode Highlights
1:47 Introducing Dr Brian Krohn 2:41 What is the Soundly app? 4:16 Dr Brian Krohn explains his eclectic career 6:46 Academia and business. Oil and water? 8:50 Creating a research-led product 10:06 From climate change research to sleep science 14:46 A brief overview of snoring 18:06 Sleep apnea, snoring and digeridoos – the research 19:53 A ‘push-up’ for your breathing airway muscles 23:05 Space invaders: how to gamify a clinical therapy 25:37 Soundly: the clinical study 28:04 How long does it take to work? 31:02 Thoughts on the future of sleep medicine 34:34 Where to get the Soundly app
Jeff Mann talks with Soundly CEO Dr Brian Krohn about snoring, innovation, digeridoos and space invaders.. amongst other other stuff
Way back in 2013, I wrote about a fascinating but bizarre sleep study which proved that playing the digeridoo was an effective alternative therapy for treating patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
I forget about this diverting piece of research until I met Brian Krohn at the Somnex Sleep Show in London last month. He was there to talk about his new app Soundly, a natural way to treat snoring which gamifies some of the therapeutic principles behind the digeridoo study.
Still in his early thirties, Dr Brian Krohn's career has criss-crossed the fields of academia, innovation and entrepreneurship in an impressive array of projects both serious..... and not so serious.
These include pioneering a new method of manufacturing clean biodiesel, co-founding one of the largest hop-farms in the Midwest, developing diagnostic tools for neurosurgery, and oh, yeah, a Kickstarter that makes 'magic wizard staffs'
But now Brian's mission is sleep, so we caught up after the show to talk more about his work as a scientist and entrepreneur, and how he's created a natural method of reducing snoring by playing a retro video game. Enjoy! This episode's guest: Dr Brian Krohn
Still in his early thirties, Dr Brian Krohn's career has traversed the fields of academia, innovation and entrepreneurship. We catch up with Dr Krohn to hear more about his eclectic career, his journey into sleep medicine and his revolutionary snoring app, Soundly. Links: Soundly App - http://sleepsound.ly/
Can a Digeridoo Cure Sleep Apnea - http://sleepjunkies.com/sleep-apnea/digeridoo-treatment-for-os/
Magic Wizard Stuff - https://magicwizardstaff.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAHJRV7rXtk
Full Transcription [toc] Introducing Dr Brian Krohn Jeff Mann: So I'm here with Brian Krohn today, now I bumped into Brian down at the Somme next show a couple of weeks ago and we happen to be on the same speaking panel and when Brian introduced himself and the app that he's developing.
I got very interested because the project that Brian is involved in now soundly is based on some research that we wrote about a few years ago, and so we had a chat after the show and Brian has kindly agreed to talk to sleep junkies and explain a bit more so… hi Brian hey ding
Brian Krohn: Hi Jeff yeah thanks for having me, it's great to catch up after the show.
Jeff Mann: Yeah fantastic, yeah really excited to hear what you've got to say. So before we start can you give us a little elevator pitch for your app soundly? What is the Soundly app? Brian Krohn: Yeah totally so soundly is an app based therapy, that helps reduce snoring. So it's an app that reduces snoring and how we do that, is there's a lot of science to the research that shows that you can strengthen and tone the upper airway, by doing specific vocalizations and that helps reduce the vibrations that cause snoring.
We take a deep dive to bust 7 of the most common and pervasive sleep myths with Dr Neil Stanley. Having spent the last 36 involved in sleep research and education, Dr Stanley is well qualified to join us on our myth-busting journey today. Prefer to read? Download the full episode transcript here
Episode Highlights
01:53 Introducing Dr Neil Stanley 03:22 What is a sleep expert? 11:00 Myth 1: Sleep is a passive activity 18:59 Myth 2: The older you get the less sleep you need 25:10 Myth 3: You can catch up with sleep at the weekends 31:16 Myth 4: You can learn to be a morning person 36:08 Myth 5: Teenagers are lazy and like to lie in bed in the mornings 40:53 Myth 6: Snoring is harmless 50:37 Myth 7: Alcohol is an effective sleep aid
Join us on our inaugural podcast as we sift fact from the fiction and look at some of the most common myths and misconceptions about sleep and sleep health. Joining us is Dr Neil Stanley, who has spent over 30 years involved in sleep research. Here's a run down of what you can expect to hear: This episode's guest: Dr Neil Stanley
Dr Neil Stanley has been been involved in sleep research for over 30 years, and describes himself plain and simply as a 'sleep expert'.
Resources:
Dr Stanley's website - www.sleepconsultancy.com How To Sleep Well book - https://amzn.to/2PjTZfl More sleep myths - http://sleepjunkies.com/features/the-33-biggest-myths-about-sleep-and-insomnia-de-bunked/ More Episodes:
Full transcript [toc]
Jeff Mann: This morning, I'm joined with Dr. Neil Stanley and I'm really pleased to have him on the end of the line. And Neil has got a long-standing history as a researcher and a scientist and I’ll let him talk a little bit more about that. So. Hi, Neil. How you doing?
Dr Neil Stanley: Good morning. Yeah, I mean, it's great to be here.
Jeff Mann: I often ask guests to give me an elevator pitch for their product or their service but you're not promoting anything except yourself. So, can you give our listeners just a very brief overview of who you are? Actually, before we do that there's a brilliant bit on your website, I just like to read out just as a preface to your introduction so on your website sleepconsultancy.com on the About page it made me laugh so I'm just going to read it out.
It says “Dr. Neil Stanley, what I am not, I’m not and these are all in inverted commas here. I'm not asleep advocate sleep diplomat, sleep practitioner, sleep educator, sleep evangelist, sleep therapist. Sleep physiologist, sleep environmental analyst, sleep fairy, sleep guru, sleep geek sleep solution expert sleep Ambassador sleep Health Navigator sleep solution expert international sleep speaker and educator or any other fancy title I am a sleep expert plain and simple." I love that. Introducing Dr Neil Stanley, Sleep Expert Dr Neil Stanley: Yeah I mean this is it, I mean I am asleep expert but I mean I've been involved in sleep research for the last 36 years initially worked alongside the world Air Force at the Institute of Aviation Medicine looking at things like workload, jet lag, shift work & medicines you can take and safely fly. In the early 90s I moved to the University of Surrey. I created and ran the world's largest clinical trial sleep laboratory, a 24 bed unit and as part of that I designed constructed the 12 finest bedrooms built anywhere on the planet.
I've been involved in clinical sleep in London and Surrey, in Copenhagen and in Oslo. I have got a collection of over 1200 sleep books so if I'm not reading about it or talking about it, I'm writing about it or doing it I'm been independent sleep expert for the last 10 years now and I traveled the world talking about the importance of sleep to anybody who will listen to me, basically members of the public health care professionals, etc. etc.
And the reason for writing that on the website is unfortunately, anybody can set themselves up as a sleep expert and or any of thos...