613: A Practical Guide to Improving Your Sleep with Dr. Sujay Kansagra
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Most adults need seven to nine hours of sleep per night, and we need good sleep quality as well, which means cycling through light, deep, and REM phases. While sleeping is the most natural of all human behaviors, many of us continue to struggle for a variety of reasons, including stress, anxiety, hormonal changes, and more. On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet a medical doctor whose work is focused on improving sleep for kids and adults.
Listen and learn:
- Sleep hygiene 101
- deal sleeping positions
- Kid vs. adult sleep - what changes?
- How to know when you need medical help
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr. Sujay Kansagra specializes in sleep medicine. He is Director of Duke University's Pediatric Neurology Sleep Medicine Program and author of a number of books, including My Child Won't Sleep: A Quick Guide for the Sleep-Deprived Parent.
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| 0:00.0 | I conducted a survey a couple of weeks ago from all of you listeners and a few |
| 0:06.0 | thousand of you sent in responses I very much appreciate your participation |
| 0:09.5 | there were a number of questions on there helping myself and my team better understand |
| 0:14.2 | what your biggest health challenges are so we could compare notes, see if we're on the same page, |
| 0:18.1 | and hopefully we can create podcasts and tutorial videos and things that are more relevant to you. One of the questions was relevant for and The overwhelming responses that we got were pretty similar. |
| 0:34.0 | They were, number one, lots of conflicting information and just too much information. |
| 0:38.0 | And number two, so many different products for sale, |
| 0:41.0 | whether those are supplements or gizmos, very difficult to know what works. |
| 0:44.3 | Obviously some things work. |
| 0:45.8 | The reason I'm bringing that up in the context of today's show is because we're talking |
| 0:49.3 | about sleep and if we think about mattresses or supplements or |
| 0:54.8 | CBD or melatonin or whatever gizmo or app it might be |
| 1:00.8 | seems like everybody's got a solution and yet many of us still struggle with |
| 1:04.6 | sleep and we're missing out on first principles the stuff we know is true whether |
| 1:09.0 | you're six or 60 whether you're sleeping great or you're really struggling with insomnia. |
| 1:14.4 | On this week's podcast we'll interview a medical doctor who focuses on pediatric sleep |
| 1:19.0 | quality but does a lot of work with adults as well. |
| 1:21.7 | If you're new here it's the Lucas Rockwood |
| 1:23.4 | show. I'm a yoga teacher and trainer. I'm the father of three kids. Firstly, I'm a |
| 1:26.4 | student. I use this podcast to research health span, how we can all live our |
| 1:30.4 | best life in the second half. And this week's podcast is no exception. |
| 1:34.7 | Sleep is one of the biggest health challenges I have and probably always will struggle with |
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