We discuss how circadian rhythms are crucial to unlocking the best sleep of your life and look back on our sleep experiments from our very first episode.
Show Notes
- 2:50 - March kicks off the discussion with a background on what Circadian rhythms are and an overview of the basic human Circadian rhythm.
- 6:40 - How Circadian rhythms affect mental alertness and physical performance.
- 9:10 - How do our Circadian rhythms change to accommodate different lifestyles?
- 11:35 - Why do our Circadian rhythms matter and why is it helpful for us to be conscious of our sleep-wake cycles.
- 15:38 - We discuss Dr. Matthew Walker's book Why We Sleep?
- 16:33 - We look back on some of the sleep experiments we committed to way back in episode 2 on sleep and Ian discusses his experience with the Oura ring.
- 19:51 - March shares his experience with using topical magnesium and delta wave sounds to improve sleep quality.
- 22:01 - Ian shares a new product for sleep improvement he discovered called NuCalm.
- 25:00 - Darren shares his experience adopting a mediation practice and what effects meditation had on the quality of his sleep.
- 28:11 - The Oak meditation app and the new mantra meditations the recently introduced.
- 29:10 - We each share our experiences using the Oura ring and explore the Oura web dashboard to learn more about our sleep and readiness cycles.
- 33:11 - How the Oura ring calculates its "readiness" score and what does the readiness score really tell us.
- 36:20 - We compare our levels of various sleep quality measurements including the amount of deep sleep and heart rate variability.
- 38:50 - How Darren's amount of deep sleep has changed and what he attributes his increase in deep sleep to.
- 42:14 - Heart Rate Variability - what it is and what it tells us.
- 46:39 - We each share a few tricks to help improve sleep quality and optimize our schedule with our Circadian rhythms.
- 53:03 - Darren shares his experience with a recent spike in the amount of deep sleep he's getting and hypothesizes about the cause of that improvement.
- 56:17 - Ian decides that he is going to "go back to the basics" in terms of optimizing his sleep environment.
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