Best Practice for Maintaining Sleep Patterns
Hey Andrew, While maintaining the perfect sleep schedule is optimal, its inevitable that I have a late night where I end up needing to stay awake longer than I'd like. This can often throw off my sleeping pattern a bit. Considering the importance of quality sleep, what do you consider to be the best strategy for getting back into this pattern? Is it better for me to wake up at my usual time (with a few less hours of sleep) and fight through that day perhaps a bit more tired than usual? Or would maintaining the amount of time slept and waking up later than usual be better? I find that this is a trade off on whether I want to feel dreadfully tired for a day, or if I want to throw off my sleep pattern. What is your protocol for situations like this?
NSDR at night - practicality
You recommend NSDR when you wake during the night and can't get back to sleep, but you also advise against exposing your eyes to light during the night. How do you go about initiating an NSDR script (e.g. on youtube or spotify), without viewing the light of the phone screen?
Sleep Monitors
Have you looked at the DEEP 2 monitor or the Muse for sleep tracking? I currently have the latest apple watch and whoop but my research indicates they are not that accurate. I am committed to significantly improving my sleep quality (sunlight in the eve, sauna B4 bed, very dim lights 2 hour before bed, no electronics two hours before bed) but I am a numbers freak and really need metrics to measure progress. do you have any suggestions or recommendations?
HGH - Deep Sleep
I understand from your podcast and Rhonda Patrick's podcast with Matt Miller that deep sleep is crucial to fending off dimensia and that as we age our bodies naturally produce less and less HGH which is critical for deep sleep. Also that 20 min sauna 4x/week increases your HGH up to 16 times. So.... my question is that at 63 years old is a 16x increase in HGH due to sauna enough to make a material change in the amount of deep sleep i get or should i look at HGH supplements?
Reproductive Disorders Affecting Women
I would love an episode on reproductive disorders which affect women as the information out there is not great and a lot of physicians aren't familiar with best research in the area. Often people with PCOS, endometriosis, PMDD, etc. are left to their own research which is really difficult!