2024-04-24
2 小时 28 分钟Welcome to the Huberman Lab guest series, where I and an expert guest discuss science and science based tools for everyday life.
I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
Today's episode marks the fourth in our six episode series all about sleep with expert guest doctor Matthew Walker.
During today's episode, we discuss sleep and learning as well as the impact of sleep and the specific stages of sleep on creativity and memory.
We talk about when and how long to sleep relative to different bouts of learning, as well as the role of naps in consolidating information that you are trying to learn.
We discuss the science and protocols of sleep as it relates to both cognitive learning and motor learning, and the mechanism by which sleep encodes memories.
As with the previous episodes in this series, todays episode includes information about the biology of sleep as well as practical tools, that is, protocols in which you can use sleep to improve your learning, memory and creativity.
Before we begin, I'd like to emphasize that this podcast is separate from my teaching and research roles at Stanford.
It is, however, part of my desire and effort to bring zero cost to consumer information about science and science related tools to the general public.
In keeping with that theme, I'd like to thank the sponsors of today's podcast.
Our first sponsor is Helix Sleep.
Helix Sleep makes mattresses and pillows that are customized to your unique sleep needs.
It's abundantly clear that sleep is the foundation of mental health, physical health and performance.
When we're getting enough quality sleep, everything in life goes so much better.
And when we are not getting enough quality sleep, everything in life is that much more challenging.
One of the key things to getting a great night's sleep is to have the appropriate mattress.
Everyone, however, has slightly different needs in terms of what would be the optimal mattress for them.
Helix understands that people have unique sleep needs, and they've designed a brief two minute quiz that asks you questions like, do you sleep on your back, your side, or your stomach?
Do you tend to run hot or cold during the night?
Or maybe you don't know the answers to those questions.