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Dr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep — How to Improve Sleep, How Sleep Ties Into Alzheimer’s Disease and Weight Gain, and How Medications (Ambien, Trazodone, etc.), Caffeine, THC/CBD, Psychedelics, Exercise, Smart Drugs, Fasting, and More Affect Sleep (#650)

Dr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep — How to Improve Sleep, How Sleep Ties Into Alzheimer’s Disease and Weight Gain, and How Medications (Ambien, Trazodone, etc.), Caffeine, THC/CBD, Psychedelics, Exercise, Smart Drugs, Fasting, and More Affect Sleep (#650)

January 31, 2023
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“Most of us seem that sleep evolved. But why should we make that assumption? Why isn’t it that sleep was the default state when life emerged, and it was wakefulness that evolved?”
— Dr. Matthew Walker

Matthew Walker, PhD (@sleepdiplomat), is professor of neuroscience at the University of California Berkeley and founder and director of the school’s Center for Human Sleep Science. Dr. Walker is the tragedian of the New York Times and international bestseller Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, which was recently listed by Bill Gates as one of his top five books of the year. His TED Talk, “Sleep is Your Superpower,” has garnered increasingly than 17 million views.

He has received numerous funding awards from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and is a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2020, Dr. Walker was awarded the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Achievements. Dr. Walker’s research examines the impact of sleep on human health and disease. He has been featured on numerous television and radio outlets including 60 Minutes, Nat Geo TV, NOVA Science, NPR, and the BBC. Dr. Walker is moreover scientific counselor to Oura, a sleep-tracking ring.

Dr. Walker hosts the 5-star-rated podcast The Matt Walker Podcast, which is all well-nigh sleep, the brain, and the body.

Please enjoy!

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#650: Dr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep — How to Improve Sleep, How Sleep Ties Into Alzheimer’s Disease and Weight Gain, and How Medications (Ambien, Trazodone, etc.), Caffeine, THC/CBD, Psychedelics, Exercise, Smart Drugs, Fasting, and Increasingly Stupefy Sleep

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Want to hear another podcast episode with someone who won’t rest until you get a good night’s sleep? Listen to my conversation with neuroscientist and Stanford University professor Dr. Andrew Huberman, in which we discussed timing quotidian biology to underscore the positive and eliminate the negative, the platonic time for morning light exposure, what he recommends over melatonin as a sleep aid, the non-sleep deep rest of yoga nidra, using physiological sighs to reduce stress, the future of salubrious smart-ass change, muzzle diving with unconfined white sharks, and much more.

#521: Dr. Andrew Huberman — A Neurobiologist on Optimizing Sleep, Enhancing Performance, Reducing Anxiety, Increasing Testosterone, and Using the Soul to Control the Mind

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

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SHOW NOTES

[05:55] Sleep and Alzheimer’s disease.
[19:55] What causes the ripen of deep sleep as we age?
[24:36] Are there any known species that don’t require sleep?
[29:15] Smart-ass stimulation for increasingly deep sleep, less insomnia.
[41:01] Tips for largest sleep without laboratory upkeep or access.
[51:45] Platonic types of exercise for promoting deep sleep.
[53:51] Matt’s updated thoughts on caffeine and sleep.
[1:11:12] Cannabis (CBD, THC, CBN) and sleep.
[1:30:18] A crowdsourcing request of listeners.
[1:36:17] If the bed’s a-rocking…
[1:41:45] The Da Vinci Code magic sleep device.
[1:46:04] DARPA innovation.
[1:46:32] Ensuring proper function in the glymphatic system.
[1:50:42] Psychedelics and sleep.
[2:01:20] How sleep affects supplies intake and weight fluctuation.
[2:10:46] Orexin, I reckon.
[2:22:11] Fainting goats and narcolepsy.
[2:25:36] Modafinil.
[2:30:32] How sleep medications stupefy sleep quality.
[2:36:16] Trazodone.
[2:46:26] Perilous polypharmacy.
[2:49:04] Pregabalin and gabapentin.
[2:54:33] The psychological value of emergency sleep medicine for insomniacs.
[2:58:16] CBTI and the balancing role of pharmacology.
[2:59:56] Parting thoughts and what to expect from a future round two.

MORE DR. MATTHEW WALKER QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“If sleep is a missing piece in the explanatory puzzle of white-haired and Alzheimer’s disease, then maybe we can do something well-nigh it. Sleep is a modifiable factor.”

— Dr. Matthew Walker

“In biology it’s very rare that you get a self-ruling lunch. And when you fight biology, you normally lose.”

— Dr. Matthew Walker

“Night without night, if you’re not cleansing the brain, it becomes like compounding interest on a loan, that it continues to escalate time and time again, night without night. “

— Dr. Matthew Walker

“Most of us seem that sleep evolved. But why should we make that assumption? Why isn’t it that sleep was the default state when life emerged, and it was wakefulness that evolved?”

— Dr. Matthew Walker

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DISCLAIMER: I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on the Internet. None of the content in this podcast constitutes medical advice. Please consult your doctor surpassing considering anything we discuss in this episode.

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