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Sleep Better and train your Clock with Professor Russell Foster



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Why do we sleep? It seems like such a luxury, an evolutionary oversight, a privilege some might say? But on today’s episode with Professor Russel Foster you’ll learn about why sleep is having a renaissance in both the way we think about it as a means to health as well as how the workforce should embrace it for enhanced creativity and productivity .

Russell Foster is Professor of Circadian Neuroscience, Director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi) and Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford. His latest book “Life Time” is a fantastic dive into everything circadian clock related and I absolutely loved it.

Today we talk about:

What Circadian rhythms are
Sleep pressure
Why we sleep and what happens when we sleep
The concept of circadian ‘entrainment’
How the visual system interacts with the brain
The suprachiasmatic nuclei (SNC) as the master clock
How to figure our your chronotype
Sleep, shift work and mental health
Chronotherapeutics
Professors Russels top 10 tips for ‘entraining’ your clock

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CHAPTERS:

Timecodes:
00:00 - Introduction
05:08 - Research and Terminology
15:00 - The Master Clock
21:31 - Why Do We Sleep
38:28 - Sleep and Teenagers
43:46 - Sleep and Shift-Workers
46:22 - Effects on Mental Health

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