This week I learned from a sleep expert @UCLA that if we go to sleep 1-2hrs later than usual we get none (zero) of the normal in-sleep bolus of growth hormone that night, regardless if we sleep in. In other words, keeping regular to-sleep times is as important as sleep duration.
Andrew Huberman is making a new long form podcast about sleep. He felt this was too important to keep until the podcast.
If you have never listened to a Huberman podcast, plan on taking multiple sessions to get through one. The have in podcast promotions that are long, but in the overall length of the podcast, not that long. Basically listening to a Huberman interview is listening to a top Stanford professor learn new stuff from top professors.
When I listened to Matthew Johnson who is a professor at John Hopkins and the leading researcher into the use of psychedelics for treating mental disorders, it was like Huberman was interviewing down, and even that was a super fascinating interview.
Peter Attia has done a podcast with him. You’re right, in common with a good many of the researchers he interviews, it’s difficult to listen straight through just once there’s so much information. I usually have to listen at least once more to these to even get half a gist. He’s also recently done a session where he covers in more detail the questions folk email in as a follow up. Haven’t listened to that yet.
Putting it on my list for treadmill training listening…after I’ve waded through those on ASCVD
I love listening to Huberman. Especially the fact that so much of his information is easy to implement. Like getting 10-30 mins of sunlight within 3 hours of waking. ( Been doing that for about a year now and my sleep seems better, less waking, sounder) Or the calming breath of inhaling deeply twice through the nose and then exhaling slowing through the mouth. I tested it several times with my Oximeter on and it lowered my heart rate. Good stuff.
Whoever thought that one up has not lived in Michigan, with weeks on end of overcast at midday so heavy you are tempted to turn on your headlights when you drive somewhere. West Michigan is worse than metro Detroit, due to the same “lake effect” that blesses that side of the state with more than twice as much snow as Detroit.
I think the take-away from the piece is don’t be inconsistent. If you want to hit the sack at midnight, do it all the time. Same thing if you want to turn in at 3am.
He missed a couple things. Polycarbonate lenses, like I have, block UV. UV promotes cataract development. So, would you rather need to have cataract surgery?
