2024-04-10
2 小时 42 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 marks the second episode in our six episode series all about sleep with our expert guest, Doctor Matthew Walker.
During today's episode, we discuss the do's and the do nots of sleep, focusing for instance, on how to use light and absence of light as well as temperature, both of your sleep environment, specifically the room you're in, your body temperature, and much more in order to regulate the timing and quality of your sleep.
And we discuss how things like alcohol, caffeine and cannabis impact sleep and the various stages of sleep.
And we discuss the various tools that exist now and that are rapidly becoming available to improve your sleep.
This episode is essential for anyone trying to optimize their sleep.
And when I say optimize your sleep, I mean trying to optimize the formula that was addressed in the first episode of the series, which is the QQRT formula.
The quality, quantity, regularity, and timing of your sleep.
Four variables that combine to determine whether or not your sleep is optimized for you and thereby providing the most restoration and improvement to your mental health, physical health and performance 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?