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I love a podcast guest who answers the majority of the questions with 'it depends' or 'we don’t know yet'. This is someone I find trustworthy because they aren't trying to sell me their 'method' of fixing the problem
@@TyrianHaze haha! He's obviously super knowledgeable, but he doesn't answer with certainty any questions that don't have an answer proven by some sort of research. It's pretty refreshing
After years of bad sleep, my new apple watch told me my oxygen levels were going far too low when asleep. Doc sent me for sleep test. Diagnosis of severe obstructive sleep apnoea. Given a CPAP machine. It has changed my life. Sleeping well. Depression gone. Appetite reduced. Able to lose weight! Better focus. Better memory. Less irritation/frustration/intolerance. I would encourage anyone with bad sleep to not give up until they have an answer. Don’t lose 30 years to sleep deprivation, like I did.
I'm glad you found relief and better health. But isn't it difficult sleeping with a CPAP mask on? And if the machine doesn't keep you awake, it probably keeps any sleep partners awake.
@@dharma__3 hi, actually, the CPAP (Resmed 10) has been incredibly easy to adjust to. It is nearly silent. My partner can barely hear it and it doesn’t affect his sleep at all. I no longer snore, which was FAR more disruptive for him! I don’t find the mask a problem either. There are about 50 different mask designs and I found a great one (Evora) at my second attempt. I won’t pretend that it is as ‘easy’ as sleeping without a mask, but I had decades of bad sleep with OSA. Sleeping very well now, and I will take good sleep + being able to breathe (and not die early from heart attack and stroke) over the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask that I forget I am wearing after 5 mins.
@@AR-rn8ok yes. A lot of people do well with mandibular devices, nasal strips, surgery (there are many different surgeries, dependent on the cause of the air blockage). Also implants, different sleeping postures, and so on. I have responded very well to CPAP (down from 92 apnoeas an hour to 1.5) which is marvellous. Mandibular advancement was a dismal fail in my case, since the blockage is too low for that to help.
@@dharma__3 hi. My partner says the CPAP machine is much quieter than my snoring! 🤣 regarding the comfort - the CPAP took a bit of getting used to, but the experience of sleeping well more than makes up for the mask (after years of insomnia caused by my body not being able to breathe enough in its sleep). There are many different mask designs, so everyone can find one that suits them, if they keep looking.
The amount of times that he has said he isn't sure or doesn't know the answer to some questions, makes me respect him even more because it shows that he has integrity and isn't in it for the fame or being popular but he is in it to actually help his fellow humans. What an absolute gem 💎💎💎
At least when you bludgeon your family you have a get-out-of-jail-free card. That’s got to help you sleep better at night. Only joking OP - if you’re stressed have some ashwaganda.
So sorry to hear that. Aside from the obvious fitness and sleep hygiene suggestions you’ll get (exercise, water, bloodwork, screen time, guided meditation, blue light etc) I’ve found some success with pm yoga, oral melatonin spray and topical magnesium. Good luck
Are high anxiety? I had insomnia. My nerves were shot. I spent thousands of dollars to figure it out. I would check to see if you are deficient in D and B vitamins. MTHFER gene mutation? Turns out cold plunges/ water therapy and eating a carnivore based diet changed everything.
I have suffered with poor sleep for decades, I’ve put it down to depression and anxiety and now peri menopause. I have a crap immune system, have developed type 2 diabetes, and we have a strong family history of Alzheimer’s in my family including my Dad. So far my Gp has only given me either sleeping pills or most recently for the last 4 years I’ve been taking mirtazapine which sometimes helps me get to sleep but none of them help keep me asleep. Most nights I fall asleep around 10pm and I’m awake by 12-1am and I’m wide awake! I’m exhausted and life feels really hard. I’m now going to make an appointment with my Gp and fight to get more help!! Thank you for having this guest on!!
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Brilliant watch, I was diagnosed with chronic insomnia after 30 years of suffering. I don’t produce as much melatonin as others I now have medical cannabis high strength of Indica & it’s saved my life & got me off sleepers. Before going down this route. High strength Magnesium 5htp/melatonin tablets are beneficial. Other things you can do is eat cherries or banana before bed as these are high melatonin content. Also raising your temp by a few degrees before sleep ie hot shower hot drink, when temp drops it promotes the falling asleep stage.. Also one leg out of the bed to regulate temp. I became a sleep expert by default. Love that you’re doing a raffle. Great idea.! X
Completely agreed with your point on sleep identity. I told this story to myself all my life that I am a night owl and a bad sleeper. Cut to 2024, I get myself a whoop to sort my struggles with sleep and help build better habits. It helped me identity what I was doing wrong, eating late at night, not winding down. 6 months in I am yawning and in bed by 10.30 pm (this was unimaginable for me earlier) and I have 6 months average sleep performance of 98%. I never slept badly, I just told myself that I did. I was never a night own, it was my lifestyle that made me think that way.
I loved the interview!!! He speaks very clearly yet with a very scientific approach, avoiding this “dogmas” and this categorical way of speaking that many other gurus in other fields like to use.
I am 63, my insomnia started when I was 18 and has persisted ever since. I have tried many things CBT, antidepressants, exercise and night time hygiene. It was worse when I was young when I averaged 4/6 hours but often sleep 0/3 hours. For me anxiety ocd was the cause although it took me years to realise this and I often avoided situations that caused this. With medication I held down a management position but at times it was tough. My sympathy goes out to fellow insomniac's.
I have a very similar story. Ive been medicated for 12 years to get to sleep. But even with that there are some night I have in desperation doubled by medication dose and I'm still up all night.Literally 0-3 hours sleep. I hold down a good IT management job, some days I have no idea how. Sadly my 18 year old son is going down the same path. I also have restless leg syndrome (since pregnancy) to add insult to to jury. Insomnia is incredibly dehumanising.
@@mollydooker9636 I really feel for you, it is tough and like me it sounds like you have coping mechanisms. At present I am focusing on triggers and trying to minimise them. Also if I keep busy preferably outside it helps and I get more good nights when I do this. I hope you find something that helps you. I do believe there is something that will make a difference for all of us.
@@mollydooker9636i take melatonin 5-10 mg, Mg 300 - 600 mg, valerian and amitriptylin ca. 17 mg. So I slept the last 3 years quite well. But no coffee, no alcohol any more.
One thing this podcast has done for me is to think differently and look after my health adequately. This is the first podcast I have ever listened to and watched. Steven your podcast is very educational and informative. God bless you for helping us take care of ourselves. All these guys you bring at the minute I can’t afford to go to their clinics. But your podcast has made it possible for me to meet them via RUclips . Thank you
Thank you for this episode. I have learnt a lot since I have kids who are super creative at night but sleepy during the day. I have been very curious about sleep. I have been one of those people, who love to take an afternoon nap to be effective at work. To be at my best, I need a minimum of 6 hours.
Uv lights are blue meaning your body thinks it's the middle of the day under them. Soon as I got blue light blockers the 40 mins it took me to get to sleep regularly just vanished. Try it guys 💜
Great timing! Recently watched your interview with Matthew Walker, and have just read his book. As a stroke survivor, please keep the brain health interviews coming.
One time I woke up outside after sleep walking. It was summer and blazing hot outside. I was a teenager and way overtired and physically exhausted. I had walked by my grandmother who scolded me for walking on her freshly mopped floor and completely ignored her. She had no idea I was asleep.
As someone who had been struggling with severe insomnia for the last 3 years, it was nice to hear that sometimes medications are needed to alleviate the consequences of this disease… I cannot sleep without it at all, but felt very guilty for taking antidepressants at such a young age.
Me too it’s my problem. I’m 55 years old woman who is clinically menupause and I’m in 3 years HRT treatment but still suffering . I’m drinking now melatonin to help me sleep . Thanks for this episode it can relate lots of people who have problem from sleeping. 🙏🌹thanks THE DIARY OF C E O TEAM .
I have sleep apnea, restless legs, intermittent other sleep disorders and I am underweight my whole life and currently more so. I am 55 and cannot sleep more than 90 mins without waking up, maybe 2hrs if I am lucky just got 2.5 hours of sleep total last eve having to care for my dad and mom just had 17 hours of sleep the past 8 nights! SO wired w cortisol in the day fighting to get more home care for my 81 y o folks. Prior to age 34 I slept great. Hot flashes, night sweats, night chills, bladder calling all eve, all midlife disturbances and hormones won't help because this happened while I was on birth control and the amount of hormones are way higher than in any HRT, so I am screwed now!!!
This episode is very helpful and has given me a whole new level of appreciation for the value of a good night sleep! To be honest, I don't think that I have been prioritising my sleep as much as I should have done, mainly because I am trying to do everything on my to do list. But this isn't an excuse for underestimated the value of sleep. For me, a good night's sleep is essentially my body's own "me time", which it uses to rejuvenate, heal, repair and restore. Sometimes if I am worried, then it can take an hour or 2 to fall asleep. The best way that I have learnt to deal with worries is through prayer, meditation and putting together some kind of action plan of what I will do about an issue. The truth is that life is definitely not a "bed of roses" and we will all face different challenges at different stages in life which will try to take away our peace (and sleep), if we let it. I have learnt that worries don't fix problems, but make them worse. I've learnt that it's also important to know the difference between what I cannot control and what is within my control (e.g my actions and choices). I found my peace when I decided to stop worrying about the future, be grateful for today and the opportunity to be a better version of myself today than I was yesterday ❤
I have been functioning my entire life sometimes with as little as 2 hours sleep a night. I’m 60 now and I look youthful. Even as a baby I never napped in the afternoon. I’m super creative and love life so much, I try to squeeze in as much as possible. Going to bed is like starting another shift for me, an opportunity to listen to spiritual teachers. Also I’m a meditator.
OMG That is me now and I too do a ton of self work while sleeping, I put my apnea to use, i listen to positive things ir hypnotic videos while sleeping. Aldo I am under weight not overweight. As a kid I slept for 12 hours til teen years, then each decade it got worse
I've just been awake for 31 hours and 27 before that with 4 hours sleep between. I'm 42. Had this issue since I was a kid. Yet NO psyche or doctor will give a formal diagnosis. I feel like a crazy person half the time not awake not asleep. And then all the misdiagnosis.. and denial of proper medication to help. I wanna cry thinking about it.
My Dad, rip, once sleep walked and ate an entire lemon meringue pie that Mom, rip, made earlier that day- set for cooling. He had no recollection of eating the pie. It ticked off my Mom. That was the last lemon meringue pie she ever made.
As a kid I sleep walked to the fridge and drank all the juice out of a pickle jar, thinking it was lemonade. I only realized what happened the following morning when there was a jar of pickles on the table with no liquid in it.
Steven, I love the selection of your guests. They are always excellent. I have a request for you though. You always do so much research and you are so prepared for your guests which I admire. I would love if you would ask especially male experts, “what about for women” . For some reason, I have noticed female experts talk about male and female stats, where as, males generalize male results to females which is incorrect. Women are not little men. Your guest failed to mention the difference between men and women. There is research that shows women need more like 8-10 hours of sleep where as men need 7-9 hrs. I find it annoying that half the population was not mentioned when talking about sleep. If women are only getting 7-8 hours of sleep and are wondering why they are so tired, it would be good to know that women need more sleep. Keep up the great work! 👍
I only need about 4-5 hours of sleep a night and in middle age, it is clear that I experience the world very differently from other people. I feel eternally grateful and blessed.
I suffer with hypersomnia, I religiously use cpap machine. I'm a veteran. I have seen sleep doctor at the VA. I now sleep from 8pm to 5:30pm to try to get quality sleep. I also have anxiety, depression,ptsd and borderline personality. From my time in military. I'm disorder. I'm struggling at work. I'm young enough to need to work and love my job. But, have had to use FMLA to buffer times I can't wake up. So, I don't lose my job. I'm hoping to hear some new treatments in this episode. I love your episodes! Keep up the awesome job!❤❤❤
Is there anyone else who skips the intro on these podcasts just because they hate how these types of emotional teasers make you make you angry at how easy it is to manipulate emotions? I mean I overcame the problem by skipping the intro...
For me podcasts like these are like conversations. But like you said, the beginning is not like a conversation. It’s more like a sales pitch, and I feel like I’m being scammed or something, which makes me want to skip the intros and get to the meat and potatoes.
It feels truly sleazy to guilt someone to subscribe. It is better for a presenter to show how much they VALUE their audiences. His pitch makes me want to turn off altogether.
@@rubijenn i dont think he s guilting us into subscribing i actualy find his method of reminding viewers to subscribe quite comfortable for me. What idont like are the intros.
My Mom has Alzheimer’s. She took sleeping pills most of her life. A lot of her family had some form of dementia. I struggle with my sleep at night. I am grateful for all this information.
I struggled with insomnia for years, it was always worse at certain times of the womanly month, I’ve been taking magnesium for 4 years and now sleep great!
I used to struggle with sleep and I had a sleep tracker and I was obsessed with knowing my time. My anxiety use to rise high when I see how many sleep I've gotten in the night. Then one day a fren of mind told me to stop tracking my sleep and see. After that ive been sleeping better. Also having a routine helps.
I have been a chronic insomniac for years, I can go 2 days without sleep. I am now trying the l reuteri yoghurt and I have found that glycine and vit D3/K2 before bed helps.
It took me 26 😢to realize I was not sleeping like a normal person. I grew up in a very physical and verbal abusive household. I would force myself as a child to sleep with an eye open because I was terrified my dad would kill my mom if I wasn’t quick enough to save her. Apparently I stopped making a neuro transmitter . I just knew that i felt so tired during the day I’d fantasized about someone hitting me with a hammer to cause me to pass out like in the cartoons. After years of trying meds i have it mostly under control. I still suffer insomnia if my stress levels are too high like tonight. It’s 2:54 am and i can’t sleep. I’m experiencing extreme stress and it’s manifesting.
Me too. Thank goodness I’m retired. My mother was born in 1920 in France. She lived and worked there until she was 25. In her time the population would work from about 7-12; close up shop until 4 pm, go home, have lunch and a nap, then go back to work until 7.
So I have insomnia. My sleep study shows I wake up everytime I go into REM sleep. Thank you PTSD. The thing that has helped was sleep hygiene and self hypnosis. Use to take so many meds to sleep and now I sleep relatively well but I am still a very light sleeper.
Neurologic, or neurological, refers to anything related to the nervous system, which includes the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. Neurology is the branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the nervous system, and it encompasses a wide range of conditions that affect the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and muscles. Neurological conditions can manifest in various ways, including changes in sensation, movement, cognition, or other functions controlled by the nervous system. Common neurological conditions include stroke, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, and various types of headaches. Neurologic symptoms can vary widely depending on the specific condition and the part of the nervous system affected. Diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders often involve a multidisciplinary approach that may include neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists, and other healthcare professionals. 👍🙏
This sounds fascinating but a suggestion Steven, why don't you provide us with a transcription of your interviews in a pdf format? Many people don't have a spare almost 2 hours or the attention span. Some other podcasts do this and its very helpful to us.
@@TapManDancer Thank you sir, that option doesn't work on my side. I've used it before, its easier to just download a pdf to read in our leisure time. Trying it now and it keeps buffering...
There is a much better and easier way than sleep restriction: Delaying going to bed by 30-45 minutes every day. You will soon go from dreading going to bed, to looking forward to going to bed and sleep. It takes roughly a month to turn the day completely around, but when you have done it you will feel like a new person. It even gets rid of depression. Problem is that nobody has time to do this.
I rarely get sleepy. I aim for 12:00 but could easily push it to 2 or 3 without be sleepy in that time. I envy my husband and others who start falling aseep in a chair or the couch and then fall right asleep when they lay down. Never happens to me.
I have sleep problems and it comes down to my life of living with narcissistic mother & partners and sexual abuse at 4 years of age and being in abused relationships and violence So it’s hard to sleep as your brain is always worried and the stress l have caused a mini stroke Good topic thanks
The bloke who bludgeoned his mother-in-law to death and tried to kill his father-in-law "in his sleep" must have had a fucking good/dodgy lawyer. What a blatant miscarriage of justice.
There is another guy who tried to copy this and get away with murdering his wife. They caught his lies and the experts said he was fake sleepwalking. They can test if it’s real or fake sleepwalking. He got sentenced to life in prison
Fascinating subject, Thank you. I can confirm that if you have a disrupted sleep patterned, you gain weight - especially in your 40s. I've noticed that I gained weight even after not sleeping for 5 days. Also, I'm a firm believe in sleep especially when you are ill, you recover from your cold faster. Thank you Prof. Guy.
I too had lost sense of smell due to covid. But I just went through an ayurveda treatment for 14 days and the sense of smell is back with full intensity.
I doubt that anyone for whom sleep is easy would invest so much time in listening to this podcast. And yet, it's absolutely fascinating and important. Thank you for this deep dive into sleep 🙏
I've had a bad habit of staying up late for many years on my PC or phone, so I really appreciated blue light filter. But it's obviously not enough. I've finally consistently broken this habit now and I go to sleep by 10pm every night now. Never felt consistently so much better than I have recently 😁🎉
Another great interview, I'm a firm fan of your podcast, I love that even if I know about some of the subjects, the amount of depth and breadth from the guests, let alone your simple, but very well though through questions, like the one to Guy, "explain to me like I was a 10 year old"....I suffer badly with sleep problems, always have, it was good having some nature and nurture reasons mentioned, something that I always believed, having grown up in a house of chaotic bad bed habits, undiagnosed neurodivergence and mental health and abusive environment. I joke, or I feel, I'm living on Portland timings, aka wishful thinking, as I actually live in London, but, living one hour ahead for four years in Europe, definitely made my circadian rhythms worse. So I think, a GP visit is needed, as I've tried everything... Respect to you and your team for sourcing great guests.
Whoop has helped me so much🙏 it basically points you in the correct direction because just by changing a few habits it can really increase your sleep quality. Water intake, what time you exercise, what you eat, alcohol a big 1… I
62 yr old woman here Who just blew $3000 cash out of pocket for a sleep study which both my GP and my dentist insisted on to see if I have sleep apnea. I insisted I don’t, but not good enough. So of course shows that I don’t and that is not the reason I wake up at 3 o’clock in the morning every night. I have tried Ambien, Lunesta, Benadryl, THC gummy‘s, and of course all the natural stuff like melatonin, Valerian, etc. etc. etc. I can fall asleep all right, but what the hell wakes me up at three in the morning? Very rarely I can get up and go to the bathroom and force myself to go back to sleep after about an hour. Most of the time I can’t take the stone cold or awakeness and tossing and turning so I just get up. The only explanation left which is probably going to turn out to be the right one is I’m super super low in estrogen and possibly testosterone as Well. A friend of mine has solved all of this with hormone replacement therapy with a functional medicine physician and I have an appt in October. Wish me luck!
That IS a common problem. However, the smart meters on homes have been shown to wake people up at 3 because the electric company downloads their data at that time and it requires a different frequency. Grounding mats with sleep are said to help.
Sounds like it could also be mast cell histamine dumping which often happens between 0100-0300. As for HRT, Progesterone is the real MVP when it comes to sleep. Best of luck!
Have you investigated choline? It plays a roll in REM sleep AND it declines with declining estrogen! I too struggled with staying asleep between 2am and 4am. Had no problem falling asleep but could not stay asleep to save my life. I'm not yet post menopause but I am 45 and skipping periods so my estrogen is declining. I take Alpha GPC - a highly absorbable form of choline - and it has been life changing, I sleep through the night now.
Absolutely incredible episode has made me cry with relief everything she says makes perfect sense! I need to know more and try this myself. It gives me hope for me and my daughter who suffer and for my boys who are well at the moment because I try so hard to give them good food and exercise but it is such a battle in this world to stay well
Thank for another amazing podcast!! Im over here in New Zealand looking specifically for one of your interviews to learn more about why i have trouble sleeping.. I’ve learnt a lot but most importantly I’ve learnt to not let it spiral into something worse by stressing over it.
Insomnia nearly destroyed me. Though I've improved somewhat, I still experience bouts that can last for months. I managed to stop taking benzodiazepines and was on Mirtazapine for years. Now, I'm almost off it, but I'm still struggling with sleep. I'm hoping to find a cure that doesn't involve harsh chemicals with severe side effects. Sleep is so simple, yet so difficult for many of us.
I used to get by on 3-5hrs sleep. Have since been diagnosed with Hypothyroidism. Would be interesting to know the correlation. Our bodies can’t be isolated to a behavior like sleep. All of the topics in this video ‘related to sleep’ can be attributed to Thyroid function. We desperately NEED more wholistic discussions! Thanks for the video! Always awesome!
I had been hypothyroid for years before diagnosis. And my sleep had deteriorated. Typically, I'd fall asleep OK, then wake up after something like an hour, and be unable to get back to sleep. Taking levothyroxine has transformed my sleep. I now almost invariably sleep well. Both subjectively and objectively inasfar my Apple Watch reports sleep! I take mine at bed-time. And if I fail to do so - I do not sleep properly! (It almost never happens now.) If I have realised, taken my tablet, I usually have a good sleep. But in the early days, I occasionally forgot and had a rubbish night. This goes against the usual story of thyroid hormone being regarded as stimulating and hypothyroidism resulting in excess sleep.
I've had insomnia for over 20years, and nothing can fix it, I've tried hypnotism, every kind of non nan narcotic, sleep hygiene, neuro feedback, u name it, I've tried it. I've seen dozens of "experts" all the way up to the best of the best in the USA at Stanford University, n they all say idk what's wrong with you or how to fix it. The only thing that works is narcotics, but my tolerance is crazy high after 20+ years of taking them, but without them I will go 7-9 days without any sleep, n then pass out for 36hrs. While I'm not sleeping I start hallucinating n kinda go crazy. Any body else have this problem?
Have you heard of Milton Erickson? He told his insomniac patients to pick a chore they hated (e.g. waxing the floor) and do that instead of trying to sleep. His patients were reportedly cured of insomnia in days.
If you stop taking benzo’s you will stay awake and hallucinate but it’s very dangerous. You could die from withdrawal. Please see a doctor and get off those poisons and go to a sleep center.
Yeah I have the same kind of sleep.......i have a screwed up pituitary gland and my sleep pattern is usually 2 or 3 days awake then I crash for about 8 to 12 hours and then awake again for days.......i also have narcolepsy so I often fall asleep standing I've been on every drug known to man and have gone through 14 sessions of electroshock therapy to try and cause my brain to reset but about a month later I was back to insomnia.......my health has deteriorated a lot in the last few years and I don't suspect that I will be alive in another few years
i had a deviated septum, and had a septoplasty done. it made a noticeable difference with my breathing on a daily basis but doesn’t eliminate the issue completely
Wish I could sleep properly. I've been off work because of the negative effects. I do what's recommended but I still suffer. Been going on for most my life. I makes depression, anxiety etc so much worse. I'm hoping I find d out something new in this podcast because I have listened to so many and implement the recommended routines but it only helps so much. Thank you for this podcast in advance. I'm just about to listen now.
I can have a very busy head. I've had a lot of trauma in my life. From childhood to more recent years. I suffer with anxiety, stress, ADHD etc. Had a sleep study done too but waiting on results. I wake up choking sometimes but think dr dismissed it because I'm slim. So I nagged them a bit.
Finally a Dr that has more options than just the cpap! My aunt just passed away early of Parkinson’s in May. Unfortunately I have they vivid nightmares and screaming etc, but since a little girl. Now I’m 47. It’s 10:50. I have a red color filter. I often stay up late because I have anxiety with sleeping because it’s a horrific experience. I suffocate even with a cpap, adding oxygen has improved it some. All my crevices dry up, I have to wake up reapplying ointment in nose, eye drops and mouth spray. I tend to suck and squeeze my tounge back causing every muscle and bone in face to hurt but it seems to make more room in my mouth. My nightmares are so vivid that throughout the day I get flash backs that seem to punch me in the stomach they are so startling and realistic I have to remind myself it was a dream, not real life. It can happen in the middle of talking to someone or anything. My body is so jittery until about 3 pm. But… I do have underlying genetic progressive disorder with no cure EDS, plus dozes associated with it. POTS, FND, CFS, I’m not going to list all of them. But I honestly don’t think I will survive living much longer. My night is a horrific nightmare. But then living with these conditions is just an unpleasant way to be on earth.
Sleep is of paramount importance. Fortunately i enjoyed a sound sleep habit in past but recently my sleep routine is damaged so i am feeling the pain.But now i am prioritizing my sleep and have abandoned many activities that are costing my time so i am making it sure to have more time for my sleep. I pray for the sleep deprived people .
Watching a video on sleep deprivation when it's 2am and you literally listen to this show to fall asleep because you have listened to everything from the sound of Rain, Asmr of hair brushing, Thunder, true crime and especially prayer videos and it's so worn off is demonic!!! I'll be asleep in 20 mind with this show/podcast in my wireless headphones 🎧
I use a sleep tracker so I can determine whether I can drive or not the next day. I don’t suffer from sleep apnea, my brain just doesn’t switch off. I have been doing sleep hygiene and I find it works really well unless I’m very stressed. That seems to be the main reason my brain doesn’t switch off.😢
Fascinating and helpful. Magnesium cured my restless legs. I have struggled with sleep since my husband died. Much of that is due to poor sleep hygiene which I will now endeavour to improve as I am probably making my depression worse. Thank you DOAC for another great interview.
Very interesting. And I love the approach that isn't all or nothing bc that just adds to stress huh. The part about new parents - especially mothers - is something of interest to me. As a midwife I think and have read that the broken sleep related to catering to the needs of a newborn - especially feeding - is cleverly aided by hormones such as oxytocin that allow us women to fall back to sleep quickly between periods of awakeness, and as many parents will attest to - fall asleep almost anywhere anytime one gets the slightest chance. Also this lack of hormonal input is possibly why fathers sometimes find the broken sleep of a newborn harder than mothers. As always no one size fits all, but over the years and via personal experience, this has been my observation. Excellent episode, thank you x
Hi @TheDiaryOfACEO Steven, as always, thank you for this episode, it's wonderful that you genuinely care about helping others with common struggles such a sleep related issues. My main feedback and request: please, address climate change and the future of our planet with some of your future interviewees. Thank you
What an absolutely fascinating podcast and guest!!! I'm definitely going to check out his books! I remember a recurring nightmare I had as a child, and I would also sleep walk and talk. My parents got concerned when I started going outside and also started chopping stuff up with sharp knives in the kitchen lol! Presumably I was 'cooking' in my sleep!😂
Mom told me I had my days and nights mixed up since I was born. It has been a battle trying to get up in the morning to function in school and my nursing career. Awful. I'm retired now and have reverted to my normal sleep preference. However, I still have to take melatonin and other sleeping potions. For years I survived on 4 hours of sleep. Now I sleep 8-10 hours and love every minute of it. My bed is so comfortable, eye mask helps (even the dial of the clock bothers me). I keep my room cold and love my weighted blanket. White noise definitely helps too. I think our culture is so busy and anxious that it takes awhile for the adrenalin to subside so one can drift off.
I have insomnia (undiagnosed but given my own psychology background - a bachelor degree - I dare to give it to myself). What helps me is: - 0.3 mg melatonin (derived as the minimal dose through my own experimentation) on days where I'm not sure if I can fall asleep on time. I have to take it 2 hours prior, so I need to make a judgement call then. - 10 mg of CBD (helps with falling back to sleep, doesn't help with starting to sleep), one hour prior to sleeping. - meditation (doesn't help with falling asleep or staying asleep but it helps with staying in bed. If I sleep only 6 hours without meditation or 6 hours + 1 hour of meditation then I'm more well rested in the latter condition, not the former - since 6 hours is too little, every little bit of feeling more well rested helps) - telling myself: no vigilance, every time I start thinking I repeat this - telling myself: stay still physically, emotionally, still thoughts and spiritually - telling myself: the day has ended, let yourself go - the best wind down period for me is doing absolutely nothing for 30 minutes on my couch and just look out of my eyes and don't really focus on thinking. If I think, that's fine but no conscious analysis allowed just pure direct experience. It feels boring, and that's okay - giving myself 9 to 10 hours of sleep opportunity (12 hours of sleep opportunity in extreme cases) - morning sunlight and evening sunlight (getting sunlight is one of the first things I do when I get out of bed) - cuddling my wife - finding ways that mimics cuddling my wife when I sleep alone (the thing is that cuddling gives a certain relaxed euphoria that normal relaxation methods don't seem to have, but this "calm excitement" has been the best emotional state for me to fall asleep). This is currently my frontier. I'm sure that when I've conquered this, I have some control to fall asleep at will I've tried many more things. I've also tried counterproductive advice to see if it is actually counterproductive. For example, my ex-girlfriend was really good at falling asleep after watching some Netflix. I decided to mimic it and noticed that with her I could do it too (alone I couldn't). This made me realize that while watching Netflix still is probably an impediment to me falling asleep, it is completely overpowered by sleeping next to the person I love. Many of these things (especially the mantras) are found through trial and error, almost no one seems to talk about them. It also helps to keep a journal where you track all of it.
Cuddling releases certain brain neurotransmitters. Julia Ross, MA, Clinical Counselor, The Mood Cure, book, found that supplementing with particukar amino acid building blocks to build particular brain neurotransmitters, helped her patients. Thorne Research nutritional supplement co., has a product, Mixed Aminos, which cpntains the essential AAs required as building blocks for brain neurotransmitters. A person may be low in those, due to akways being in overdrive, and not having enough HCl in stomach to digest proteins. Supplementing HCl during meals can help with that. And, also, getting the spine adjusted to reset the nervous system helps to calm down the adrenal glands, and take them out of overdrive, so that the body can rest and digest.
I live in the most northern capital in the world (Reykjavík). Right now we have 24h day light. In winter there is much less day light. Most sientists invited to talk about sleep often talk about the importance of day light. But none of them has spoken about places where you have a lot of darkness or a lot of light. In my experience life does not change much and we function perfectly well in darkness or in total light.. Same goes with all the animals on the north. So adaptation mechanisms also seem to play a big role :)
My entire life I was a night owl. Even as a kid. Then when I turned 60, suddenly started waking up at 5am. Asleep by 9pm. (Maybe it was my new kitty 😺 alarm).
We are conciously living often in exhaustion from lifes stresses........be what they come to you in your life ? Sleeping is the only way our body can recuperate from daily conscious mind activity. The body serves us well Sleeping keeps our bodies recuperating.......sort of given a boost of recharging our energy . To navigate through this complex life .😊 We need time out , recharge , repair time for the body to continue to work for the whims of our conciousness
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You are doing a great job Steven, touching souls and changing lives. God bless you.
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If you receive hundreds of notifications and they're annoying, why do you activate them. Spend time disabling the notifications for all those channels, and keep the ones that actually matter, like this one. @@carolscandolara3940
I love a podcast guest who answers the majority of the questions with 'it depends' or 'we don’t know yet'. This is someone I find trustworthy because they aren't trying to sell me their 'method' of fixing the problem
What is sleep?
I should be a podcast guest. I don't know shit about fuck.
I work with dogs...'it depends' is a staple of mine😂
@@TyrianHaze haha! He's obviously super knowledgeable, but he doesn't answer with certainty any questions that don't have an answer proven by some sort of research. It's pretty refreshing
@@luciatheron1621 I'd trust you with my dog for sure!
After years of bad sleep, my new apple watch told me my oxygen levels were going far too low when asleep. Doc sent me for sleep test. Diagnosis of severe obstructive sleep apnoea. Given a CPAP machine. It has changed my life. Sleeping well. Depression gone. Appetite reduced. Able to lose weight! Better focus. Better memory. Less irritation/frustration/intolerance. I would encourage anyone with bad sleep to not give up until they have an answer. Don’t lose 30 years to sleep deprivation, like I did.
I'm glad you found relief and better health. But isn't it difficult sleeping with a CPAP mask on? And if the machine doesn't keep you awake, it probably keeps any sleep partners awake.
There are alternatives to cpap like mouthpieces and surgery.
@@dharma__3 hi, actually, the CPAP (Resmed 10) has been incredibly easy to adjust to. It is nearly silent. My partner can barely hear it and it doesn’t affect his sleep at all. I no longer snore, which was FAR more disruptive for him!
I don’t find the mask a problem either. There are about 50 different mask designs and I found a great one (Evora) at my second attempt.
I won’t pretend that it is as ‘easy’ as sleeping without a mask, but I had decades of bad sleep with OSA. Sleeping very well now, and I will take good sleep + being able to breathe (and not die early from heart attack and stroke) over the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask that I forget I am wearing after 5 mins.
@@AR-rn8ok yes. A lot of people do well with mandibular devices, nasal strips, surgery (there are many different surgeries, dependent on the cause of the air blockage). Also implants, different sleeping postures, and so on.
I have responded very well to CPAP (down from 92 apnoeas an hour to 1.5) which is marvellous. Mandibular advancement was a dismal fail in my case, since the blockage is too low for that to help.
@@dharma__3 hi. My partner says the CPAP machine is much quieter than my snoring! 🤣
regarding the comfort - the CPAP took a bit of getting used to, but the experience of sleeping well more than makes up for the mask (after years of insomnia caused by my body not being able to breathe enough in its sleep). There are many different mask designs, so everyone can find one that suits them, if they keep looking.
Since suffering burn out and it taking 3 years plus to recover I take sleep very seriously. So interested in this particular podcast...❤❤❤❤
Who else is watching because they can't sleep? 😅
These nuts can't sleep on your chin.
Sorted my sleep after stopped drinking, took me 2 years to fix it 😀
What's sleep???
I've blamed my incontinence for disrupting my sleep. Now wondering if I've blamed the wrong thing.
I can't get no sleep !!
The amount of times that he has said he isn't sure or doesn't know the answer to some questions, makes me respect him even more because it shows that he has integrity and isn't in it for the fame or being popular but he is in it to actually help his fellow humans. What an absolute gem 💎💎💎
"Safe and Effective" 😅
Thank god I got a notification for this one, I haven’t had a good night sleep in 7 years. I can go 3 days with no sleep at all it’s pure torture.
At least when you bludgeon your family you have a get-out-of-jail-free card. That’s got to help you sleep better at night.
Only joking OP - if you’re stressed have some ashwaganda.
So sorry to hear that. Aside from the obvious fitness and sleep hygiene suggestions you’ll get (exercise, water, bloodwork, screen time, guided meditation, blue light etc) I’ve found some success with pm yoga, oral melatonin spray and topical magnesium. Good luck
Are high anxiety? I had insomnia. My nerves were shot. I spent thousands of dollars to figure it out. I would check to see if you are deficient in D and B vitamins. MTHFER gene mutation? Turns out cold plunges/ water therapy and eating a carnivore based diet changed everything.
Bless your heart. May you sleep like an angel tonight.
Not so heavily maybe but still pretty hardly... I can relate, warm hugs, let's keep strong, gonna listen with lot of curiosity...
I have suffered with poor sleep for decades, I’ve put it down to depression and anxiety and now peri menopause. I have a crap immune system, have developed type 2 diabetes, and we have a strong family history of Alzheimer’s in my family including my Dad. So far my Gp has only given me either sleeping pills or most recently for the last 4 years I’ve been taking mirtazapine which sometimes helps me get to sleep but none of them help keep me asleep. Most nights I fall asleep around 10pm and I’m awake by 12-1am and I’m wide awake! I’m exhausted and life feels really hard. I’m now going to make an appointment with my Gp and fight to get more help!! Thank you for having this guest on!!
I hear your pain...and frustration. That is me exactly.
Every single week your podcasts are so relevant to my life. It's unbelievable! Thank you DOAC!
Same here
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Is he on instagram?
Microdosing helped me get out of the pit of my worst depressive episode, a three year long episode, enough to start working on my mental health.
Can dr.porassss send to me in UK?
@@Somusicais" Zamnesia" deliver to the uk, good for micro dosing and medicinal mushrooms! All the best!
Brilliant watch,
I was diagnosed with chronic insomnia after 30 years of suffering.
I don’t produce as much melatonin as others
I now have medical cannabis high strength of Indica & it’s saved my life & got me off sleepers.
Before going down this route.
High strength Magnesium
5htp/melatonin tablets are beneficial.
Other things you can do is eat cherries or banana before bed as these are high melatonin content.
Also raising your temp by a few degrees before sleep ie hot shower hot drink, when temp drops it promotes the falling asleep stage..
Also one leg out of the bed to regulate temp.
I became a sleep expert by default.
Love that you’re doing a raffle. Great idea.! X
bananas also have higher amount of tyrosine than other fruits, which is the precursor to dopamine, which can give you energy
Thanks for actually getting an expert and not a journalist, paperback author, or somebody else with bias spruiking their own promotion.
Completely agreed with your point on sleep identity. I told this story to myself all my life that I am a night owl and a bad sleeper. Cut to 2024, I get myself a whoop to sort my struggles with sleep and help build better habits. It helped me identity what I was doing wrong, eating late at night, not winding down. 6 months in I am yawning and in bed by 10.30 pm (this was unimaginable for me earlier) and I have 6 months average sleep performance of 98%. I never slept badly, I just told myself that I did. I was never a night own, it was my lifestyle that made me think that way.
I loved the interview!!! He speaks very clearly yet with a very scientific approach, avoiding this “dogmas” and this categorical way of speaking that many other gurus in other fields like to use.
I am 63, my insomnia started when I was 18 and has persisted ever since. I have tried many things CBT, antidepressants, exercise and night time hygiene. It was worse when I was young when I averaged 4/6 hours but often sleep 0/3 hours. For me anxiety ocd was the cause although it took me years to realise this and I often avoided situations that caused this. With medication I held down a management position but at times it was tough. My sympathy goes out to fellow insomniac's.
I have a very similar story. Ive been medicated for 12 years to get to sleep. But even with that there are some night I have in desperation doubled by medication dose and I'm still up all night.Literally 0-3 hours sleep. I hold down a good IT management job, some days I have no idea how. Sadly my 18 year old son is going down the same path. I also have restless leg syndrome (since pregnancy) to add insult to to jury. Insomnia is incredibly dehumanising.
Have you tried melatonin?
@@mollydooker9636 I really feel for you, it is tough and like me it sounds like you have coping mechanisms. At present I am focusing on triggers and trying to minimise them. Also if I keep busy preferably outside it helps and I get more good nights when I do this. I hope you find something that helps you. I do believe there is something that will make a difference for all of us.
@@victorallright2331 No I haven't. I have recently also thought of magnesium. Thank you.
@@mollydooker9636i take melatonin 5-10 mg, Mg 300 - 600 mg, valerian and amitriptylin ca. 17 mg. So I slept the last 3 years quite well. But no coffee, no alcohol any more.
One thing this podcast has done for me is to think differently and look after my health adequately. This is the first podcast I have ever listened to and watched. Steven your podcast is very educational and informative. God bless you for helping us take care of ourselves. All these guys you bring at the minute I can’t afford to go to their clinics. But your podcast has made it possible for me to meet them via RUclips . Thank you
Thank you for this episode. I have learnt a lot since I have kids who are super creative at night but sleepy during the day. I have been very curious about sleep. I have been one of those people, who love to take an afternoon nap to be effective at work. To be at my best, I need a minimum of 6 hours.
Thank you so much for sharing! Hope you found this one helpful ❤️
Uv lights are blue meaning your body thinks it's the middle of the day under them. Soon as I got blue light blockers the 40 mins it took me to get to sleep regularly just vanished. Try it guys 💜
Great timing! Recently watched your interview with Matthew Walker, and have just read his book. As a stroke survivor, please keep the brain health interviews coming.
One time I woke up outside after sleep walking. It was summer and blazing hot outside. I was a teenager and way overtired and physically exhausted. I had walked by my grandmother who scolded me for walking on her freshly mopped floor and completely ignored her. She had no idea I was asleep.
I use to sleep walk as a kid.. when I was stressed 😰
As someone who had been struggling with severe insomnia for the last 3 years, it was nice to hear that sometimes medications are needed to alleviate the consequences of this disease… I cannot sleep without it at all, but felt very guilty for taking antidepressants at such a young age.
Me too it’s my problem. I’m 55 years old woman who is clinically menupause and I’m in 3 years HRT treatment but still suffering . I’m drinking now melatonin to help me sleep . Thanks for this episode it can relate lots of people who have problem from sleeping. 🙏🌹thanks THE DIARY OF C E O TEAM .
I have sleep apnea, restless legs, intermittent other sleep disorders and I am underweight my whole life and currently more so. I am 55 and cannot sleep more than 90 mins without waking up, maybe 2hrs if I am lucky just got 2.5 hours of sleep total last eve having to care for my dad and mom just had 17 hours of sleep the past 8 nights! SO wired w cortisol in the day fighting to get more home care for my 81 y o folks. Prior to age 34 I slept great. Hot flashes, night sweats, night chills, bladder calling all eve, all midlife disturbances and hormones won't help because this happened while I was on birth control and the amount of hormones are way higher than in any HRT, so I am screwed now!!!
Me too menopausal 54 yr old .. I suffered for 18 months … fluoxetine 20mg worked for me .. was a life saver 🛟
This episode is very helpful and has given me a whole new level of appreciation for
the value of a good night sleep!
To be honest, I don't think that I have been prioritising my sleep as much as I should have done, mainly because I am trying to do everything on my to do list. But this isn't an excuse for underestimated the value of sleep.
For me, a good night's sleep is essentially my body's own "me time", which it uses to rejuvenate, heal, repair and restore.
Sometimes if I am worried, then it can take an hour or 2 to fall asleep. The best way that I have learnt to deal with worries is through prayer, meditation and putting together some kind of action plan of what I will do about an issue.
The truth is that life is definitely not a "bed of roses" and we will all face different challenges at different stages in life which will try to take away our peace (and sleep), if we let it. I have learnt that worries don't fix problems, but make them worse. I've learnt that it's also important to know the difference between what I cannot control and what is within my control (e.g my actions and choices).
I found my peace when I decided to stop worrying about the future, be grateful for today and the opportunity to be a better version of myself today than I was yesterday ❤
I have been functioning my entire life sometimes with as little as 2 hours sleep a night. I’m 60 now and I look youthful. Even as a baby I never napped in the afternoon. I’m super creative and love life so much, I try to squeeze in as much as possible. Going to bed is like starting another shift for me, an opportunity to listen to spiritual teachers. Also I’m a meditator.
OMG That is me now and I too do a ton of self work while sleeping, I put my apnea to use, i listen to positive things ir hypnotic videos while sleeping. Aldo I am under weight not overweight. As a kid I slept for 12 hours til teen years, then each decade it got worse
You probably just have the gene mutation that allows you little sleep
I've just been awake for 31 hours and 27 before that with 4 hours sleep between. I'm 42. Had this issue since I was a kid. Yet NO psyche or doctor will give a formal diagnosis. I feel like a crazy person half the time not awake not asleep. And then all the misdiagnosis.. and denial of proper medication to help. I wanna cry thinking about it.
There are OTC herbal remedies that can help you sleep. Check it out. You may have to try different combinations to find what your body likes.
Try black seed oil
Refreshingly humble about what
science does and doesn't know about sleep and the brain. An excellent conversation with a true expert thank you!
I guess I have a 1 in 6 million chance of talking to Steven! Better than the lotto and better than my current sleep.
Like Jim Carry said in Dumb & Dumber "So there is a chance!"
My Dad, rip, once sleep walked and ate an entire lemon meringue pie that Mom, rip, made earlier that day- set for cooling. He had no recollection of eating the pie. It ticked off my Mom. That was the last lemon meringue pie she ever made.
Does he smoke pot,😂 that can cause that
As a kid I sleep walked to the fridge and drank all the juice out of a pickle jar, thinking it was lemonade. I only realized what happened the following morning when there was a jar of pickles on the table with no liquid in it.
@@aisle_of_viewMaybe you poured it out.
@@aisle_of_viewMaybe you were low on electrolytes, so your subconscious got you up in the middle of the night and remedied that problem!?
The old "I was asleep" line huh, your dad was a G
Steven, I love the selection of your guests. They are always excellent.
I have a request for you though.
You always do so much research and you are so prepared for your guests which I admire.
I would love if you would ask especially male experts, “what about for women” .
For some reason, I have noticed female experts talk about male and female stats, where as, males generalize male results to females which is incorrect. Women are not little men.
Your guest failed to mention the difference between men and women. There is research that shows women need more like 8-10 hours of sleep where as men need 7-9 hrs.
I find it annoying that half the population was not mentioned when talking about sleep. If women are only getting 7-8 hours of sleep and are wondering why they are so tired, it would be good to know that women need more sleep.
Keep up the great work! 👍
You have a point, I read somewhere that women's brains process more in the day than men's brains and require more sleep.
The doctor told me “you’re suffering from insomnia”
I said “is it serious??”
He said “there’s no cause for any alarm”
Maybe because he knew if he "alarmed" you about it you'd have a harder time falling asleep
😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂 I see what you did there. 😂😂
Is it bad if I wake up 3 hours before my alarm goes off?
@@alecogden12345 If he's not sleeping he needs nothing to wake him up mate. It was a Joke Bro
I only need about 4-5 hours of sleep a night and in middle age, it is clear that I experience the world very differently from other people. I feel eternally grateful and blessed.
Dang I need at least 7-8 hrs to feel well rested. I love sleeping so much tho it’s a joy for me
I suffer with hypersomnia, I religiously use cpap machine. I'm a veteran. I have seen sleep doctor at the VA. I now sleep from 8pm to 5:30pm to try to get quality sleep. I also have anxiety, depression,ptsd and borderline personality. From my time in military. I'm disorder. I'm struggling at work. I'm young enough to need to work and love my job. But, have had to use FMLA to buffer times I can't wake up. So, I don't lose my job. I'm hoping to hear some new treatments in this episode. I love your episodes! Keep up the awesome job!❤❤❤
you sleep for 21 hours?
Is there anyone else who skips the intro on these podcasts just because they hate how these types of emotional teasers make you make you angry at how easy it is to manipulate emotions? I mean I overcame the problem by skipping the intro...
For me podcasts like these are like conversations. But like you said, the beginning is not like a conversation. It’s more like a sales pitch, and I feel like I’m being scammed or something, which makes me want to skip the intros and get to the meat and potatoes.
@@AlphaGeekgirl i d rather if he had started the podcasts with the speech to the vieweres than with these...teasing cuts
It feels truly sleazy to guilt someone to subscribe. It is better for a presenter to show how much they VALUE their audiences. His pitch makes me want to turn off altogether.
@@rubijenn i dont think he s guilting us into subscribing i actualy find his method of reminding viewers to subscribe quite comfortable for me. What idont like are the intros.
Its like a movie trailer, a teaser. You can watch but not subscribe
My Mom has Alzheimer’s. She took sleeping pills most of her life. A lot of her family had some form of dementia. I struggle with my sleep at night. I am grateful for all this information.
I have for the last 30 years had 4 hours sleep or less on most days. Yes, I am very overweight & no I don't eat excessively or badly.
I struggled with insomnia for years, it was always worse at certain times of the womanly month, I’ve been taking magnesium for 4 years and now sleep great!
What kind of magnesium?
What type?
I used to struggle with sleep and I had a sleep tracker and I was obsessed with knowing my time. My anxiety use to rise high when I see how many sleep I've gotten in the night. Then one day a fren of mind told me to stop tracking my sleep and see. After that ive been sleeping better. Also having a routine helps.
I have been a chronic insomniac for years, I can go 2 days without sleep. I am now trying the l reuteri yoghurt and I have found that glycine and vit D3/K2 before bed helps.
It took me 26 😢to realize I was not sleeping like a normal person. I grew up in a very physical and verbal abusive household. I would force myself as a child to sleep with an eye open because I was terrified my dad would kill my mom if I wasn’t quick enough to save her. Apparently I stopped making a neuro transmitter . I just knew that i felt so tired during the day I’d fantasized about someone hitting me with a hammer to cause me to pass out like in the cartoons. After years of trying meds i have it mostly under control. I still suffer insomnia if my stress levels are too high like tonight. It’s 2:54 am and i can’t sleep. I’m experiencing extreme stress and it’s manifesting.
Ahh, how our experience has caused so much damage.
I'm so sorry. That sounds awful. How cruel life can be. I wish you all the best going forward
I wish I could feed u whole food seed based smoothies, pet u n read u a book at night💚
Trauma is terrible…🫂 for you.
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I don't know why but I love that little smirk he does sometimes mid sentence. so endearing
I have been having a first sleep and a second sleep for almost 40 years. I’m awake for 1-3 hours in the middle of the night.
Me too. Thank goodness I’m retired. My mother was born in 1920 in France. She lived and worked there until she was 25.
In her time the population would work from about 7-12; close up shop until 4 pm, go home, have lunch and a nap, then go back to work until 7.
Me too. I sleep from 9/11 pm to 1/3 am. And then sleep again. Very annoying. I wonder why
So I have insomnia. My sleep study shows I wake up everytime I go into REM sleep. Thank you PTSD. The thing that has helped was sleep hygiene and self hypnosis. Use to take so many meds to sleep and now I sleep relatively well but I am still a very light sleeper.
How do you sleep hypnotise?
Neurologic, or neurological, refers to anything related to the nervous system, which includes the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. Neurology is the branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the nervous system, and it encompasses a wide range of conditions that affect the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and muscles.
Neurological conditions can manifest in various ways, including changes in sensation, movement, cognition, or other functions controlled by the nervous system. Common neurological conditions include stroke, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, and various types of headaches.
Neurologic symptoms can vary widely depending on the specific condition and the part of the nervous system affected. Diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders often involve a multidisciplinary approach that may include neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists, and other healthcare professionals. 👍🙏
This sounds fascinating but a suggestion Steven, why don't you provide us with a transcription of your interviews in a pdf format? Many people don't have a spare almost 2 hours or the attention span. Some other podcasts do this and its very helpful to us.
There is a transcript. Go to "more" in the Description underneath the video.
@@TapManDancer Thank you sir, that option doesn't work on my side. I've used it before, its easier to just download a pdf to read in our leisure time. Trying it now and it keeps buffering...
@@healing682 hit show transcript (it won't load) so then hit back arrow then hit show transcript again. It will load the second time.
The transcript works fine. Just click on it.
Just put the advice in the intro.
I have recently diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnoea it has been a life changing diagnosis,CPAP has been a life saver
There is a much better and easier way than sleep restriction: Delaying going to bed by 30-45 minutes every day. You will soon go from dreading going to bed, to looking forward to going to bed and sleep. It takes roughly a month to turn the day completely around, but when you have done it you will feel like a new person. It even gets rid of depression. Problem is that nobody has time to do this.
I rarely get sleepy. I aim for 12:00 but could easily push it to 2 or 3 without be sleepy in that time. I envy my husband and others who start falling aseep in a chair or the couch and then fall right asleep when they lay down. Never happens to me.
I have sleep problems and it comes down to my life of living with narcissistic mother & partners and sexual abuse at 4 years of age and being in abused relationships and violence
So it’s hard to sleep as your brain is always worried and the stress l have caused a mini stroke
Good topic thanks
The bloke who bludgeoned his mother-in-law to death and tried to kill his father-in-law "in his sleep" must have had a fucking good/dodgy lawyer. What a blatant miscarriage of justice.
Bodied both of them and got the so called "expert" to say he was asleep!?!? I also need that guys number friend 😂
There is another guy who tried to copy this and get away with murdering his wife. They caught his lies and the experts said he was fake sleepwalking. They can test if it’s real or fake sleepwalking. He got sentenced to life in prison
I thought so too. It’s a thought he has always wanted to carry out and used sleep to go free
And it's almost irrelevant if he was asleep. If anything that makes him a bigger danger to people in future so should be locked up for safety.
My thought this is what happens@@davidstevens3934
Fascinating subject, Thank you. I can confirm that if you have a disrupted sleep patterned, you gain weight - especially in your 40s. I've noticed that I gained weight even after not sleeping for 5 days. Also, I'm a firm believe in sleep especially when you are ill, you recover from your cold faster. Thank you Prof. Guy.
I too had lost sense of smell due to covid. But I just went through an ayurveda treatment for 14 days and the sense of smell is back with full intensity.
I doubt that anyone for whom sleep is easy would invest so much time in listening to this podcast. And yet, it's absolutely fascinating and important. Thank you for this deep dive into sleep 🙏
I've had a bad habit of staying up late for many years on my PC or phone, so I really appreciated blue light filter. But it's obviously not enough.
I've finally consistently broken this habit now and I go to sleep by 10pm every night now. Never felt consistently so much better than I have recently 😁🎉
Another great interview, I'm a firm fan of your podcast, I love that even if I know about some of the subjects, the amount of depth and breadth from the guests, let alone your simple, but very well though through questions, like the one to Guy, "explain to me like I was a 10 year old"....I suffer badly with sleep problems, always have, it was good having some nature and nurture reasons mentioned, something that I always believed, having grown up in a house of chaotic bad bed habits, undiagnosed neurodivergence and mental health and abusive environment. I joke, or I feel, I'm living on Portland timings, aka wishful thinking, as I actually live in London, but, living one hour ahead for four years in Europe, definitely made my circadian rhythms worse. So I think, a GP visit is needed, as I've tried everything... Respect to you and your team for sourcing great guests.
Whoop has helped me so much🙏 it basically points you in the correct direction because just by changing a few habits it can really increase your sleep quality. Water intake, what time you exercise, what you eat, alcohol a big 1… I
62 yr old woman here Who just blew $3000 cash out of pocket for a sleep study which both my GP and my dentist insisted on to see if I have sleep apnea. I insisted I don’t, but not good enough. So of course shows that I don’t and that is not the reason I wake up at 3 o’clock in the morning every night. I have tried Ambien, Lunesta, Benadryl, THC gummy‘s, and of course all the natural stuff like melatonin, Valerian, etc. etc. etc. I can fall asleep all right, but what the hell wakes me up at three in the morning? Very rarely I can get up and go to the bathroom and force myself to go back to sleep after about an hour. Most of the time I can’t take the stone cold or awakeness and tossing and turning so I just get up. The only explanation left which is probably going to turn out to be the right one is I’m super super low in estrogen and possibly testosterone as Well. A friend of mine has solved all of this with hormone replacement therapy with a functional medicine physician and I have an appt in October. Wish me luck!
That IS a common problem. However, the smart meters on homes have been shown to wake people up at 3 because the electric company downloads their data at that time and it requires a different frequency. Grounding mats with sleep are said to help.
Sounds like it could also be mast cell histamine dumping which often happens between 0100-0300. As for HRT, Progesterone is the real MVP when it comes to sleep. Best of luck!
In 5 elements Chinese medicine waking up at 3 suggests you liver is struggling to detox. The detox process in the liver is active between 1am and 3 am
Have you investigated choline? It plays a roll in REM sleep AND it declines with declining estrogen! I too struggled with staying asleep between 2am and 4am. Had no problem falling asleep but could not stay asleep to save my life. I'm not yet post menopause but I am 45 and skipping periods so my estrogen is declining. I take Alpha GPC - a highly absorbable form of choline - and it has been life changing, I sleep through the night now.
Good luck!
Suffered insomnia my whole life. With even taking sleeping meds, 10 days without sleeping.
Perimenopause has killed my sleep. I hate how helpless I feel 😢
I never slept for 7 years when I was like that, I worked full time, don't know how I managed. Feel for you.
HRT
@@lindamatus4429 Doesn't make me sleep
Adrenal supplement, I find Biotics Research, ADHS, worked wonders to balance my hormones as I went thru menopause. Not one single hot flash!
I'm hot, I'm cold, back and forth!
Excellent!! What a fascinating discussion, particularly the distinct connections to dementia.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Absolutely incredible episode has made me cry with relief everything she says makes perfect sense! I need to know more and try this myself. It gives me hope for me and my daughter who suffer and for my boys who are well at the moment because I try so hard to give them good food and exercise but it is such a battle in this world to stay well
Thank for another amazing podcast!! Im over here in New Zealand looking specifically for one of your interviews to learn more about why i have trouble sleeping.. I’ve learnt a lot but most importantly I’ve learnt to not let it spiral into something worse by stressing over it.
Very balanced and informative - more people like this please. Really relevant and gimmick free
Dr guy is a fantastic speaker, full of brilliant information , this is one of the best interviews you have done.
I myself have sleep issues,
Insomnia nearly destroyed me. Though I've improved somewhat, I still experience bouts that can last for months. I managed to stop taking benzodiazepines and was on Mirtazapine for years. Now, I'm almost off it, but I'm still struggling with sleep. I'm hoping to find a cure that doesn't involve harsh chemicals with severe side effects. Sleep is so simple, yet so difficult for many of us.
Praying that you get better
Tried smoking weed?
"Adaptive mechanism" seems a way better term to describe human capabilities then "evolutionary mechanism".
I used to get by on 3-5hrs sleep. Have since been diagnosed with Hypothyroidism. Would be interesting to know the correlation. Our bodies can’t be isolated to a behavior like sleep. All of the topics in this video ‘related to sleep’ can be attributed to Thyroid function. We desperately NEED more wholistic discussions! Thanks for the video! Always awesome!
Absolutely agree. Very slowly, moving like an iceberg, the medical field is learning a more global/ wholistic approach to health.
Heal the gut to heal the thyroid. "Hidden Food Allergies," book, by James Braley MD.
@@fangletterman-ng2ro thank you 🙏🏽 I’ll check that out!
I had been hypothyroid for years before diagnosis. And my sleep had deteriorated. Typically, I'd fall asleep OK, then wake up after something like an hour, and be unable to get back to sleep.
Taking levothyroxine has transformed my sleep. I now almost invariably sleep well. Both subjectively and objectively inasfar my Apple Watch reports sleep!
I take mine at bed-time. And if I fail to do so - I do not sleep properly! (It almost never happens now.) If I have realised, taken my tablet, I usually have a good sleep. But in the early days, I occasionally forgot and had a rubbish night.
This goes against the usual story of thyroid hormone being regarded as stimulating and hypothyroidism resulting in excess sleep.
I've had insomnia for over 20years, and nothing can fix it, I've tried hypnotism, every kind of non nan narcotic, sleep hygiene, neuro feedback, u name it, I've tried it. I've seen dozens of "experts" all the way up to the best of the best in the USA at Stanford University, n they all say idk what's wrong with you or how to fix it. The only thing that works is narcotics, but my tolerance is crazy high after 20+ years of taking them, but without them I will go 7-9 days without any sleep, n then pass out for 36hrs. While I'm not sleeping I start hallucinating n kinda go crazy. Any body else have this problem?
Have you heard of Milton Erickson? He told his insomniac patients to pick a chore they hated (e.g. waxing the floor) and do that instead of trying to sleep. His patients were reportedly cured of insomnia in days.
If you stop taking benzo’s you will stay awake and hallucinate but it’s very dangerous. You could die from withdrawal. Please see a doctor and get off those poisons and go to a sleep center.
Us I got insomnia, depression then schizophrenia
Yeah I have the same kind of sleep.......i have a screwed up pituitary gland and my sleep pattern is usually 2 or 3 days awake then I crash for about 8 to 12 hours and then awake again for days.......i also have narcolepsy so I often fall asleep standing
I've been on every drug known to man and have gone through 14 sessions of electroshock therapy to try and cause my brain to reset but about a month later I was back to insomnia.......my health has deteriorated a lot in the last few years and I don't suspect that I will be alive in another few years
Try indica cannabis with Dr. permission of course. Works for me
Always interesting & relevant. Thank you for excellence in programming!
i had a deviated septum, and had a septoplasty done. it made a noticeable difference with my breathing on a daily basis but doesn’t eliminate the issue completely
Tried tempazapam, omega 3, St John's wort and melatonin and magnesium. Found omega 3 capsules and magnesium in the early evening best.
Wish I could sleep properly. I've been off work because of the negative effects.
I do what's recommended but I still suffer. Been going on for most my life.
I makes depression, anxiety etc so much worse. I'm hoping I find d out something new in this podcast because I have listened to so many and implement the recommended routines but it only helps so much.
Thank you for this podcast in advance. I'm just about to listen now.
Is it busy in your head? Why can’t you sleep? You ever had a sleep research? Maybe apnea?
I can have a very busy head. I've had a lot of trauma in my life. From childhood to more recent years. I suffer with anxiety, stress, ADHD etc.
Had a sleep study done too but waiting on results. I wake up choking sometimes but think dr dismissed it because I'm slim. So I nagged them a bit.
What’s the painful trick ?
I had the best of sleeps listening to his voice 😴
Finally a Dr that has more options than just the cpap!
My aunt just passed away early of Parkinson’s in May. Unfortunately I have they vivid nightmares and screaming etc, but since a little girl. Now I’m 47.
It’s 10:50. I have a red color filter.
I often stay up late because I have anxiety with sleeping because it’s a horrific experience. I suffocate even with a cpap, adding oxygen has improved it some. All my crevices dry up, I have to wake up reapplying ointment in nose, eye drops and mouth spray. I tend to suck and squeeze my tounge back causing every muscle and bone in face to hurt but it seems to make more room in my mouth. My nightmares are so vivid that throughout the day I get flash backs that seem to punch me in the stomach they are so startling and realistic I have to remind myself it was a dream, not real life. It can happen in the middle of talking to someone or anything. My body is so jittery until about 3 pm. But… I do have underlying genetic progressive disorder with no cure EDS, plus dozes associated with it. POTS, FND, CFS, I’m not going to list all of them. But I honestly don’t think I will survive living much longer. My night is a horrific nightmare. But then living with these conditions is just an unpleasant way to be on earth.
Sleep is of paramount importance. Fortunately i enjoyed a sound sleep habit in past but recently my sleep routine is damaged so i am feeling the pain.But now i am prioritizing my sleep and have abandoned many activities that are costing my time so i am making it sure to have more time for my sleep. I pray for the sleep deprived people .
Watching a video on sleep deprivation when it's 2am and you literally listen to this show to fall asleep because you have listened to everything from the sound of Rain, Asmr of hair brushing, Thunder, true crime and especially prayer videos and it's so worn off is demonic!!! I'll be asleep in 20 mind with this show/podcast in my wireless headphones 🎧
Yay, another thing to worry about.
I use a sleep tracker so I can determine whether I can drive or not the next day. I don’t suffer from sleep apnea, my brain just doesn’t switch off. I have been doing sleep hygiene and I find it works really well unless I’m very stressed. That seems to be the main reason my brain doesn’t switch off.😢
🤦♂️Watching this at 3AM unable to sleep 🫠💀
Same
@@usernametaken6452it’s 2:29 where I am. 😩
😂
Here, here😂
I am up at three often, but go to sleep at 8pm….( have cats who wake me…😉)
Fascinating and helpful. Magnesium cured my restless legs. I have struggled with sleep since my husband died. Much of that is due to poor sleep hygiene which I will now endeavour to improve as I am probably making my depression worse. Thank you DOAC for another great interview.
I have been a fan of this podcast for the longest time, it has changed my perspective and decision making in jus a year, I take sleep more important
Very interesting. And I love the approach that isn't all or nothing bc that just adds to stress huh.
The part about new parents - especially mothers - is something of interest to me. As a midwife I think and have read that the broken sleep related to catering to the needs of a newborn - especially feeding - is cleverly aided by hormones such as oxytocin that allow us women to fall back to sleep quickly between periods of awakeness, and as many parents will attest to - fall asleep almost anywhere anytime one gets the slightest chance.
Also this lack of hormonal input is possibly why fathers sometimes find the broken sleep of a newborn harder than mothers. As always no one size fits all, but over the years and via personal experience, this has been my observation.
Excellent episode, thank you x
Please do a podcast on chronic fatigue
1:53:25 I had a total loss of smell & taste 7 years ago. Totally devastating. It totally affects my mood, & caused me horrible depression.
Hi @TheDiaryOfACEO Steven, as always, thank you for this episode, it's wonderful that you genuinely care about helping others with common struggles such a sleep related issues.
My main feedback and request: please, address climate change and the future of our planet with some of your future interviewees. Thank you
What an absolutely fascinating podcast and guest!!! I'm definitely going to check out his books! I remember a recurring nightmare I had as a child, and I would also sleep walk and talk. My parents got concerned when I started going outside and also started chopping stuff up with sharp knives in the kitchen lol! Presumably I was 'cooking' in my sleep!😂
I am 49 and have suffered with restless leg syndrome since I was 33. Food and the gut play a big part in its prevalence.
Extremely interesting, however interesting that hypnotherapy was not mentioned, and yet there are so many people who have success from this therapy!
I wish he talked more about narcolepsy. Its so debilitating. And so many people dont understand it completely.
I've found that getting a cardio exercise in the day has helped my sleep. Going for a jog or a swim and lowering caffeine intake.
Acting out dreams is connected to Lewy body dementia too, dopamine issus.
Watching this on 5 hours of sleep. Maybe I should go take a nap
Mom told me I had my days and nights mixed up since I was born. It has been a battle trying to get up in the morning to function in school and my nursing career. Awful. I'm retired now and have reverted to my normal sleep preference. However, I still have to take melatonin and other sleeping potions. For years I survived on 4 hours of sleep. Now I sleep 8-10 hours and love every minute of it. My bed is so comfortable, eye mask helps (even the dial of the clock bothers me). I keep my room cold and love my weighted blanket. White noise definitely helps too. I think our culture is so busy and anxious that it takes awhile for the adrenalin to subside so one can drift off.
I have insomnia (undiagnosed but given my own psychology background - a bachelor degree - I dare to give it to myself).
What helps me is:
- 0.3 mg melatonin (derived as the minimal dose through my own experimentation) on days where I'm not sure if I can fall asleep on time. I have to take it 2 hours prior, so I need to make a judgement call then.
- 10 mg of CBD (helps with falling back to sleep, doesn't help with starting to sleep), one hour prior to sleeping.
- meditation (doesn't help with falling asleep or staying asleep but it helps with staying in bed. If I sleep only 6 hours without meditation or 6 hours + 1 hour of meditation then I'm more well rested in the latter condition, not the former - since 6 hours is too little, every little bit of feeling more well rested helps)
- telling myself: no vigilance, every time I start thinking I repeat this
- telling myself: stay still physically, emotionally, still thoughts and spiritually
- telling myself: the day has ended, let yourself go
- the best wind down period for me is doing absolutely nothing for 30 minutes on my couch and just look out of my eyes and don't really focus on thinking. If I think, that's fine but no conscious analysis allowed just pure direct experience. It feels boring, and that's okay
- giving myself 9 to 10 hours of sleep opportunity (12 hours of sleep opportunity in extreme cases)
- morning sunlight and evening sunlight (getting sunlight is one of the first things I do when I get out of bed)
- cuddling my wife
- finding ways that mimics cuddling my wife when I sleep alone (the thing is that cuddling gives a certain relaxed euphoria that normal relaxation methods don't seem to have, but this "calm excitement" has been the best emotional state for me to fall asleep). This is currently my frontier. I'm sure that when I've conquered this, I have some control to fall asleep at will
I've tried many more things. I've also tried counterproductive advice to see if it is actually counterproductive. For example, my ex-girlfriend was really good at falling asleep after watching some Netflix. I decided to mimic it and noticed that with her I could do it too (alone I couldn't). This made me realize that while watching Netflix still is probably an impediment to me falling asleep, it is completely overpowered by sleeping next to the person I love.
Many of these things (especially the mantras) are found through trial and error, almost no one seems to talk about them.
It also helps to keep a journal where you track all of it.
Sounds like a full-time job trying to keep track and help yourself fall asleep/stay asleep
Cuddling releases certain brain neurotransmitters. Julia Ross, MA, Clinical Counselor, The Mood Cure, book, found that supplementing with particukar amino acid building blocks to build particular brain neurotransmitters, helped her patients. Thorne Research nutritional supplement co., has a product, Mixed Aminos, which cpntains the essential AAs required as building blocks for brain neurotransmitters. A person may be low in those, due to akways being in overdrive, and not having enough HCl in stomach to digest proteins. Supplementing HCl during meals can help with that. And, also, getting the spine adjusted to reset the nervous system helps to calm down the adrenal glands, and take them out of overdrive, so that the body can rest and digest.
where to get CBD?
@@Payl0ad in NL at the Kruidvat, just a store
Listening to this on my night shift 😅
I live in the most northern capital in the world (Reykjavík). Right now we have 24h day light. In winter there is much less day light. Most sientists invited to talk about sleep often talk about the importance of day light. But none of them has spoken about places where you have a lot of darkness or a lot of light. In my experience life does not change much and we function perfectly well in darkness or in total light.. Same goes with all the animals on the north. So adaptation mechanisms also seem to play a big role :)
bro his intros are hands down the best no cap, it makes me so infurious but its so awesome
Saying the rosary helps...also n say to.myself listen to my .breathing n not thinking....also protein snak helps ..too
I loved this interview and Dr. Leschziner himself! Didn't know about his existance before. Thanks
Thank you for the quality of the content every week including this one.
Anyone here wished with sighted N24? Wished it had been addressed.😊
My entire life I was a night owl. Even as a kid. Then when I turned 60, suddenly started waking up at 5am. Asleep by 9pm. (Maybe it was my new kitty 😺 alarm).
We are conciously living often in exhaustion from lifes stresses........be what they come to you in your life ?
Sleeping is the only way our body can recuperate from daily conscious mind activity.
The body serves us well
Sleeping keeps our bodies recuperating.......sort of given a boost of recharging our energy .
To navigate through this complex life .😊
We need time out , recharge , repair time for the body to continue to work for the whims of our conciousness