WHY YOU'RE ALWAYS TIRED - Big Myths Ruining Your Sleep & How To Get The Best Sleep Of Your Life!
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- In this sleep masterclass, Neuroscientist Professor Russell Foster & Sleep Researcher Professor Matthew Walker share their very best tips about getting the best sleep of your life. Hope you enjoy!
Professor Foster' book:
Life Time: The New Science of the Body Clock And How it Can Revolutionize Your Sleep and Health amzn.to/3qcE5rR
Matthew Walker's book:
'Why We Sleep' amzn.to/2ttWt59
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I am a mental health nurse working for the NHS. Have been doing nights for the last 5 years. In 2019 I had a car accident on my way home after my 12 hour shift. In the last 18 months I have discovered I have fatty liver and pre diabetes. I, more often than not, don't get a break during the my shift. There appears no concern from employer for our welfare. Staff shortages and a preoccupation for ticking boxes appear to reign king over employee welfare. My mood is constantly up and down which has placed strain on my family life. Feel totally fed up. I believe we should be guaranteed an opportunity to sleep in comfortable surroundings during our breaks as I currently average around only 2-3 hours in a 24 hour period between shifts, I don't understand why I struggle to sleep longer. This would be a massive help. However, we're not encouraged to sleep on site on our breaks and to leave the hospital eats into precious time 🤷♂️
One word- keto!
@@tymom9313 my diet is better than a Keto diet now. I have reversed my health issues but the sleep aspect is the only remaining factor and the main focus of this video. But thanks for your suggestion 👍
What is your diet, please tell?
Dear nurse!
You are a wonderful, remarkable and beautiful woman!
PLEASE listen to your cries for help! You help everyone else and are neglecting yourself! Please think about what you just wrote and tell that person what you think they should do! See yourself for who you are! Treat yourself as you would treat others, obviously with great love and respect from hearing what you do!
There are other jobs out there WAITING for people like you to show up! There ARE compassionate employers who've come from where you are, now! They understand! Take your power and Life back!!! You really can do this if you put it foremost in your mind and it will manifest into your dream job where people love and respect your greatness! I believe you can DO THIS!💖❣️😊
Beautiful advice.
Remember those you love depend on you being healthy, both mentally and physically.
I was going watch this now, but I think at nearly 3 hours, it will be better for my insomnia to watch it at bedtime!
I am 55 years old and always knew, even back in high school that 8 hours wasn't enough sleep for me, so in college, I picked a semester and scheduled all my classes to start after noon so I could sleep as long as I needed to be able to wake up without an alarm clock. I did that the entire semester. The result was, without fail, I woke up after 9 hours give or take ONE minute. It was amazing how exact it was. Some of that may be related to how long it actually took me to all asleep but I'm usually pretty good at falling asleep pretty quickly once I get in bed. I've always felt SO MUCH BETTER in every way when I get nine hours a night. I only get that on weekends now because I'm a night owl and I simple can't go to bed early enough to then be able to get up for work in time so I just get too little sleep. But I'm working on it, trying to get to sleep a little earlier because I now how important sleep is.
This properly summarizes the status of my sleep cycle as well, including needing the 9 hours of sleep! 😂
9 hours is perfect for me, but 10 hours and I feel worse than having 6...
If I get 5-6 hours OR 9-10 hours of sleep I wake up with no grogginess, but anything out of that range I wake up tired. So interesting
thank you! I get 6 hrs of sleep and more makes me tired. Finally I will stop stressing about it 😅
Same. Sometimes I sleep more but generally 6 hours and I wake up feeling great
I love 10 hour a day !!!
Quality of deep sleep and not length of sleep for me.
I was shocked to find out that in the US maternity leave is 6-12 weeks. Babies rarely sleep well and long until much older. How can a normal human function at any job with 3-5 hrs of sleep for months during breastfeeding and infancy? In Russia maternity leave is 3 years to insure that kids are psychologically/mentally healthy and parents are mentally stable to raise their children.
Russians need extra maternity for children can grow to be sent for invasion and liberation of Fascist nations that threaten freedom of Mother Russia.
Because in the U.S they actually worship the almighty dollar, even though it says ‘In God we Trust’ on it!
In the US, the idea is to marry money.
Uraaa
The US perception is that pregnancy and child rearing are a monetary burden (even though this is false considering the value that those women have generated for companies).
Good stuff but could we have chapters please?
Grateful to hear that it’s healthy to need 10+ hours. Has been the case my whole life and had consulted various health professionals to ‘diagnose’. 🙏
Sorry to ask but I’m interested...and what did the “experts” gave you as a “diagnosis “?
I feel best at 4-5 hours sleep. If i pass 6 hours, I struggle to wake up and feel sluggish all day.
I sleep about 5-6 a night. 6 is a good one for me. I have always worried about this and figured I’d have health problems when I get older. This has put me at ease 👏🏼
Maybe a nap during day?
@@kathya1956 don’t need one.
Yeah, me too, been trying to get more but nothing seems to work 😂
@@richkellett2418 same, I just don’t seem to need more.
@@BL4CK0UT17 Once a month hits the spot for me. Seems to last 90 minutes on the dot. 😊
💤💤I need less sleep but occasionally enjoy a catch up here and there.🎉
As a mother and primary caregiver to a 10 week old, thank you for acknowledging sleep deprivation! #struggling
Choose your man better next time
@@vipr1142do you know her personally? Do your know her husband? How ashamed of yourself would you be if you found out she was a young mother who was widowed? (God forbid) maybe you missed the part where they talk about how in the past it was the whole family/community helping to raise the child vs now it’s not like that anymore. When was the the last time you have helped or offered to help to watch a friends or relatives baby so they can rest or just anyone at all? If the answer is no/not really then your friends and family have chosen poorly and maybe they need to choose better. How easy to pass your judgement upon others life from a simple sentence, much harder to look in the mirror.
@@aafursa Well, if that is so, my family didnt "choose" me.
While she chose the one she got a baby with.
So your argument is invalid.
And if someone asked me to help out, I would most likely help.
It would depend who it is tho.
Having a new baby is exhausting. For both mom and dad, there is little sleep for the first few months. And so much changes in the moms body with hormones and nursing. Some babies are up crying to nurse every two hours at first. Dad can’t nurse a baby in the middle of the night. Take care. It will get better. May God bless you with naps.
@@vipr1142shut up nerd
This is one area I need to understand more about! Will watch this tonite :)
Maybe it will sound weird but i LOOOVED night shifts :-D . I figured out when i just jump straight to bed after work and sleep 3-4 hours i can enjoy the sunlight and free time in the middle of the day and take a 3-4 hours nap before the night shift i felt quite fine and well rested. I am the late chronotype so 7 am when i would be back from night shift is for me naturally still night :D Only issue was shifts rotated so i had nightshift only 4 days tops :-/ . And i had to survive hellish morning shifts
My natural need for sleep is almost precisely the same!! Always loved night shift
I remember growing up thinking sleep wasn't anything to care about but now I realize it's been such an important part of my life that I took for granted. I have had no sleep schedule since high school where I would probably sleep less than 6 hours a night and would struggle in school and my weight the whole time. I would say since 2015 I haven't had a consistent sleep schedule and the past 7 days I have been working on creating a good sleep schedule and creating a routine for myself as suggested and I can definitely notice a change in my moods as well as reactivity to the world around me. This has been some amazing information that I wish would have been more readily available to me as a teenager so I could understand how important sleep is to success in not just education but regulating emotions and performance in sports. This should be taught in physical education classes all over to make sure the next generation of adults grow up with healthy sleep habits, thank you to both the guests and the host for sharing this with us all.
2 months ago I could barely get up in the morning. Its like pulling a one ton rock out of bed. Added another 2 hours to my sleep, with 1000mg of vit C and ACV. Now it's not a problem. So its about 6 to 7 hours a day. Before was 5 hours of sleep a day.
Love that table!❤
I sleep 4-5 hours. That’s all I need.
I figure I’ll be spending the rest of eternity on my back, so I’ll keep it to a minimum while I’m alive.
you’ll be alive a lot longer if you slept just one extra hour
@@User61918Nope. Your body needs what it needs. Quality over quantity
@@User61918Nope. Your body needs what it needs. Quality over quantity
This is really smart sleep information. And will share the video.
For four months, I worked a job in which I was "Awake" for 18 hours a day which also included driving an hour a day driving back and forth to work. I swear... at the end of the four months, I felt like I had alsheimers or some kind of serious memory problem or dementia. It was kinda scary.
Did you recover??
@@mrfernandog123 Mostly. I'm working on a better work schedule with a new work bid coming up.
I find that when my brain is tired, from lack of sleep, my thinking is more creative. Which improves my work.
Thank you for your insights
Hi man! Sorry, I’m just cycling through my backlog of FB messages now. What was meant to be a 1-2 month refrain, has become a 4-5 year absenteeism from this app 😅
Honestly man, I’m awfully ashamed of this circumstance. You helped me out in a time of my life & a situation when I didn’t believe in myself. You backed me enough to represent you in Bucharest! One of the most importantly beautiful times in my life where I was not only just questioning my sexuality, but my place on this earth.
Sleeping during the day if you work night-shift is greatly easier with proper fitting eye light blocking mask.
Fascinating information on sleep. I wonder if both researchers have any research on young children’s sleep, especially infants from 0-3 years old?
Thank you for these great discussions.
I had worked night shifts for about 6 years more than 10 years ago and I count my blessings that my drive to work did not include any highways. I had no issues with the drive home in the bright morning. It was difficult for me to get some sleep during the day due to the light, heat and noises from the traffic and the neighboring kids. I had worn my eye mask and had my aircon running to help chill down the room when trying to sleep at about 3pm.
I can remember one instance some decades ago when I was driving home (after a fishing trip) on a highway at about 1am and I had lapsed into a microsleep as I could not remember any part of the drive from the last few seconds. It was a rather frightening realisation for me.
I went clean Keto 8 months ago, lost 25 pounds and more recently started carnivore with occasional berries, cruciferous veg. I have now ditched my auto adjust CPAP and been doing great on 4.5 to 5 hrs. This was after decades of needing a minimum of 7.5 and often 10 plus and then also needing an afternoon nap.
unessential amino acid, unessential sugar, unessential fats? sounds smart lol
i wonder why people take 9 unessential amino aicd, 2 unessential toxic fat, and galactose lactose sucros sucralose maltose dextrose..
oh well
That’s amazing, makes me want to try it. I’m always so sleepy and sleep so long
Ditto! Keto has so many benefits!
I have the same experience! I am on Keto since 14 years (in the beginning it was LCHF that also led to nutritional ketosis). I wake up refreshed after 5,5 hours. If however I have "sinned" and had a lot of carbohydrates, which happens about 3-4 times a year, I need 7,5 to 8 hours the morning after!
Enjoy the dementia. What a nightmare to live a long due to good health but be too senile to enjoy it.
There need to be much higher standards for soundproofing in apartment buildings. A person can do all the right things to promote healthy sleep and be completely demolished due to noise transferring between flimsy apartment units. I've been dealing with this for the past 23 years. It doesn't matter what apartment I move to. I sleeo great in massive houses far from nocturnal noise disturbances, but I can't afford to buy such a residence. Anyway, I know that the majority of apartment renters have to contend with this to some degree. It destroys mental health, performance, and quality of life.
I totally understand you. Noisy neighbours are a nightmare. I use earplugs and when they still don't help, I put on my speakerphones and turn on White Noise on YT for the night. It takes some time to get used to the noise, but you can try different types to your liking - jet engine, fan noise, low frequency noise, high frequency noise, there're plenty.
@SingRaduga I use two white nouse/fan noise machines, and sometimes switch to my Bose nouse-cancelling headphones. The impact noises are inescapable, and my room actually shakes.
Ear plugs worked for me
I feel very blessed cause i occasionally hear some noise downstairs but most parts don’t hear anything next door unless it’s people walking outside the hall.
I heard this before!
Just wanna share my situation here: Early life drug addiction kinda ruined my sleep for life. Not exactly drug use but the psychiatrists to whom my clueless parents took me to and the cocktail of psychiatric medications that they gave me. I quit heroin and psychiatric medications in one go, cold turkey at the age of 19 and couldn't sleep right for weeks. I became a nocturnal person for years and years after that, only able to sleep after sunrise. Managed to adjust my sleep timings over many years by forcing myself to go through days without sleep but its taken a toll on my ability to sleep.
Even when I am sleeping 'right' (disturbed sleep 6-7 hours a night, getting up at least once to piss and then smoke also obviously!!) there will be a day every 7 to 10 days when I just cant sleep! Then I ruin my sleep myself sitting on the computer till too late and not going to bed on time!! Man I wish I could learn to sleep undisturbed straight for 8-10 hours a night again!
I suggest you to try meditation but not any kind. Look here on CZcams for like an 8 hours video of meditation music (not guided, just music) of Htz frequencies for deep sleep. There’s many frequencies, for any needs. It’s called brain entrainment, where the frequencies you listen to, will have the brain matching the frequencies with the brain brainwaves. It works. Maybe you won’t stay asleep all the way through at first, but I’m sure that you will get some benefits.
If you try it, let me know!
sleep is so important. TY
great video
I cant sleep much since i started fasting..my body wakes me up to get up and go hunt for food i guess 😅
right on, bro. i was waking up during the night -- so after 1.5 yrs of IF -- i went back to 3 meals a day from 9 am - 7 pm. sleep a solid 7 hrs now.
Or autophagy is stressing your body and it's in constant unrest
Abouta use this video to help me sleep now 🙏🏾
Thanks for this video. It was a real wake up call. I have every one of these symptoms. 9:33
I don’t mind 4-5 hours, but function best on six, but it’s broken 3 hours wake up for an 1-2 hours and then another 3 hours, which is cool when I’m off but I have to be at work at 6, so I love it when it isn’t broken , started after catching Covid a year ago, have to keep stress low
I can get along with 3 or 4 hours nowdays because I changed my diet and don't eat sugar and haven't done so for 2 years nearly now. I can wake up at 4am or 5am and no alarm clock. I'll have AVC in water first thing in the morning and then 💯 % coffee beans and then 💯% green tea. Cinnamon sticks, turmeric root, olive oil on leafy vegetables and kampot pepper with boiled eggs or fish. Could eat chicken and no problem.
Heck I haven’t slept decent in five years. Now it’s even worse since my son was almost killed and I had to be awake most the night in case he stopped breathing. Always on edge and a racing mind makes it real hard to sleep.
if you can try melatonin or valerian. plus cold exposure or heat exposure before sleep also magnesium is good
Chamomille tea, stop caffeine
So sorry to hear about your son and situation hope he recovers & u all get better quality of life 🙏
If you can let go of the idea that you cant do anything about whether he breathes or stops, because we cant control other ppl'sautomatic breathing, unless there's a machine to support.
Try to trust that it will go well, see if you can relax about it, you can't go under as well, or take care of anyone else if you too are faltering.
I dont know the situation, but surely there must be some aid or help for this? Monitor or some nurse watching over him while he sleeps?
Didnt mean to prye. I cant imagine whst it's like.
But i admire ppl's love firvtheir chikdren & their strength when it's a necessity, good luck🍀🙏
Sorry to hear about your son and your situation.
I can empathise, as my wife and I had a similar situation with our son. If you can, and someone can keep an eye on your son, try and get some sleep during the day. Long term, that will affect your health, like it did ours. Blessings.
Prayer also helps, deep prayer
BTW, sleep deprivation and insomnia are very different things although these two are not sleeping well….. for the future podcast, I wish the sleep experts can elaborate the difference between deprivation & insomnia , thank you 🙏
You are right
Sleep deprivation means you are deprived of sleep, you dint get enough sleep, i think either because ppl font get enough sleep, i.e. due to staying up late or as someone mentioned children/elders to care fir in the middle of night.
Insomnia is the inability to sleep even if you are tired, and want go sleep but you either have trouble falling asleep or you wake up in the middle of the night inable to sleep.
Both are still making you sleep deprived.
Only insomnia is chronically, it can be reversed ofc, but usually due yo anxiety depression or other mental/emotional challenges.
This is just my take on it, i dis not read the difference lol, so dontvtake my word for it.
I quit w ALL caffeine to cure my insomnia,
It was HARD quitting cold turkey, but SO worth it to get my life back or together, my brain has become scrambled eggs unf after only a cpl of hrs of sleep for 15 years due to night terrors & sleep paralysis.
I tried to get help, but it's laughable, they just give medicine, it still didnt help me to sleep.
Im going au naturelle chamomille tea & no caffeine
Sunl8ght, nature & walks, plus oraying & meditation, yoga/Qigong
Getting better & better relaxed, and stsrting to live "slow living" 🙏😁
@@UniqueGeekFreak So many spelling errors, I can tell your brain is scrambled.
@@vipr1142 it's typo slips my phone is lagging. That's all you had to say about my comment?
You are not a good person, i want you to know that. And i hope you change that, because it can't be fun having to endure your poisonous words & company
@@godzoo18 are u talking to me i take it?
Maybe that's your belief.
But i dont see how it is demonic. I have heard many religious christians saying Yoga is demonic. But I do not subscribe to that belief that it is demonic, & i have not yet encountered anything evil of that nature. If it contradicts my Faith that there is polytheism etc in it, ofc i wouldn't practise it, I can exclude mantras & such ofc & pick what feels ok at least for me, im not soeaking for anyone else.
Yes please
Night shift worker are most likely deficient in vit D which increases the risk for most all cancers… even skin cancers…
45 to 60 min driving after work ist still much. Night shift definitely Shows drop downs in performance, attention and error prevention.
So in my pharmaceut8cal company we try to give easier, simpler tasks to the night shift workers, but unfortunately they also have to perform full processes with high pharmaceutical manufacturing standards.
Even worse, some years ago and even now, many clinical staff still have to work 24 or even 36 hours shifts and still drive home on their own 🙈
I sleep 10 hours every single night, and have for many years. Everyone is different, for sure
You feel refreshed on waking?
I used to sleep 10 hours and felt refreshed. Now that I have children, I sleep about 6 hours and am always tired.. But perhaps that is a lifestyle factor.
I need 12-14hrs of horizontal time. The non-sleep idleness needs is a far more interesting discussion
How to Master Your Sleep | Professor Russell Foster
Thanks!! 🥰
😢😢😢
Fascinating. I stayed up last night last bedtime to finish it. 😂
😅
Einstein slept 3 hours. His time was relative.
If I can sleep a long time .. I do. But I wake up, usually after 6-7 hours.
After listening for a few minutes i realize that noone actually knows much hard facts about sleep or why we need it, or why we have dreams or don't have dreams. Indicators of this is that a valid argument seems to be "everyone is different".
Matt Walker.
I am so thankful that someone is finely talking about sleep.
uh? try google. About 1,530,000,000 results (0.35 seconds)
you could study sleep every single second of your entire life and not get 1% of it
I'm a night owl and have been TRYING to move my clock up a little so I can go to bed earlier. I tried getting the light in the morning but I don't understand how going out into the light every morning to drive to work isn't cutting the mustard? Shouldn't that give us the light exposure we need to reset our clocks? Of course, we're going to drive home in the late afternoon light so we can't prevent ourselves from seeing that. But I doubt that ancestral humans avoided evening light exposure. I will say that when I go camping and am outside during sunset, it does make me sleepy and I LOVE that. But as soon as I'm indoors, I'm awake and being wonderfully productive late into the wee hours of the morning. I love that burst of productivity but am concerned about my health. What explanation do you have for the drive to/from work light exposure and what advice do you have for me?
The light has to be able to get into your eyes, seeing light through car windows doesn’t cut it apparently.
I find the length of the video hard to find time for but I know you often break it into shorter sections. I recently asked for a referral for a dermatologist as my dry sometimes itchy skin was affecting my sleep. The next night I had a big flare up with eczema which after using a cream found it got worse but fortunately a bath soothed my skin so I could sleep. This happened the next night using a different cream and the bath was the solution. With the recommendation of moisturizing after a bath I am reluctant to use it but found gels work better.
I correct the Doc..bringing children up today is easier than bringing children up in the past. Not the other way around....my mum has always told me of how it was to bring children up in the 60s, 70s and even before that like after the war. For a start food was scarse, not for everyone but for the average ppl it was. Mothers used to have multiple children, not just 1 or 2 like most families today. Also, they didn’t have ANY of the modern comforts...starting from nappies, they didn’t exist, they used squares of white fabric that needed to be hand washed and made to return white. In the 50s, 60s ppl didn’t have a toilet inside the home, and if you lived in the country side there was no hot water, no gas, no heating. All this made it already more difficult and more lengthy to do house chores, let alone tending for children. Women didn’t drive or weren’t allowed to, so wherever you had to go to, it would have been by foot...and I have many more things to add to this...because every time that my mum hears young parents complaining nowadays, she starts telling me all the stories about how hard it really was back in the day. And I really like listening to old stories and memories!
Today it’s difficult because we’re all stressed out or traumatised...but I disagree that it’s more difficult now than then. The hand washing of the nappies alone is enough to convince me of this!!!!
Hi Dr.Rangan, I cannot find this episode in your podcast list
For those of us suffering from chronic insomnia and have heard ad nauseam how we are courting cancer and death, this was far from encouraging. Could only listen to a half hour, it was so depressing. Wish he had started with the solutions. We all know the dangers.
I experienced microsleep as I was working long hours for several weeks. I hit an electric pole which thankfully didn't fall on my car. My first thought when I was jolted awake was if I had hit a person. 2nd thought -- my husband's gonna be mad about the car. Turns out I was in the early stages of pregnancy too.
3 hours ?😱😱😱must save this for bouts of insomnia!
"healthy diet nad healthy body mass index is diferent for everyone!"
Being highly active i always need 9 hrs deep sleep 🥰
I need about 9-10 to be fully rested , without an afternoon nap for less than 8 hours. But then im tired all dayand haven't slept well most of my life 😪
different people need different levels
I need 8-12 hours of sleep.
8-10 for me :)
6 for me and feel great. Wake up 4 every morning. Will not miss a sunrise. To me sleeping past 6am is not living and depressing
24 for me
I get like 10. Feel great
My husband naps at noon for about 1hr. Is that impeding night sleep?
Time stamps plz
In this CZcams video titled "WHY YOU'RE ALWAYS TIRED - Big Myths Ruining Your Sleep & How To Get The Best Sleep Of Your Life!", the speaker addresses various myths and misconceptions about sleep. They emphasize that everyone's optimal sleep duration is different and that it is important to determine one's own sleep needs based on how well they function during the day. The consequences of sleep deprivation, both short-term and long-term, are discussed, highlighting the impact on emotions, cognitive performance, and overall health. The speaker also talks about the effects of light exposure and caffeine consumption on sleep quality, as well as the dangers of driving while tired. Strategies for improving sleep, such as reducing caffeine intake and establishing a bedtime routine, are shared. The importance of prioritizing sleep for physical and mental recovery, as well as overall well-being, is also emphasized. The speaker concludes by stressing the need to raise awareness about the importance of sleep and to destigmatize the need for sufficient sleep.
WHY YOU'RE ALWAYS TIRED - Big Myths Ruining Your Sleep & How To Get The Best Sleep Of Your Life!. Professor Russell Foster
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A conversation between two coworkers went like this:
She: You look whacked, are you tired?
He: No no, I'm just ugly.
Would like to know this man's name please? Could you put the name and qualifications of your interviewers in the caption, or at least in the description?
Its in the description , sleep expert Matthew Walker
@@Sam-ys6iwthis is not Mathew Walker. Not even close
Professor Russell Foster - it’s also in the description- click the ‘more’ option on the line below the title
Long story short get the amount your body needs or you feel you need. Usually we need more than we think. 8 to 10 plus. We often have lack of sleep so much it takes a while to get back on track
Realistically, most can’t sleep for 10 hours plus per day.
Thought Prof Matthew Walker had aged and put on a lot of weight.... prior to him appearing 30+ mins.....Yep I need more sleep. 😂
depending on the strain on the brain
Mmm so why are Drs supposed to do 72 hr shifts ?
Excellent podcast!
I have always been a driven person - waking up early, meditating, exercising, and going to bed late. Six hours sleep is adequate for me and I am so glad that I found this podcast, and learnt so much from these brilliant speakers. I will definitely put some of their suggestions in practice!
Keep up the great work!
I’m lucky if I sleep at all yet still ok.
I need 10 hours.
I have not had caffeine, chocolate, oil, or refined sugar since 2002.
Saying people don't need 8 hours is going to ruin a lot of lives by accident.
So what do you do if there's a no from your support systems?? Basically your option as parents is to suffer. Which is pretty much where me and my poor wife are
Me watching this while i should be asleep: 👁👄👁
For me, 4-5 hours has been adequate for me....
Re body temperature, I am always amazed when experts say you fall asleep better in a cooler room. Then why is it when we have the wood burner on the and room is really hot everyone is falling asleep, no matter what time of day it is? Also, SO many friends of mine, most of which are over 50 nearly ALL wake up around 3-4am and struggle to fall asleep again for and hour or two, then sleep another hour or two, can you add up those two batches of sleep for a sum total of maybe 7 hours, or does it not count that you have had a few hours break in the middle of that, and why does it happen to people of 'a certain age'?
Hisorically, the majority of people practiced biphasic sleep. They fell asleep at sundown, woke up and did things for a few hours, maybe (I'm sure the details varied), then they slept more until sunrise. I believe it's perfectly normal. It's modern society that has "pushed" people to sleep through the night.
@@HansenFT Thank you, yes I understand that habit as I love history, but isn't that still a modern society thing (when we lived in houses)? as it takes 1000's of years to become part of our 'DNA' behaviour, did we do this when we were hunter gathers to where getting up in the middle of the night a wondering about would have been very dangerous? Also reading Matthew Walkers book gives you the idea that because some people are night owls and others morning larks that we never slept so long as to make ourselves vulnerable to predators, there was always someone on the 'look out'. .... I am just hoping that my annoying habit of sleeping from 10pm to 3.30am then falling asleep at 5.30 and waking up at 7.30am (interesting during that last sleep I have the most vivid dreams) count as 7.5 hours sleep? I hope so. It seems very common but only in latter years of life..Very interesting podcast. Thanks for your reply.
I’ve heard it has something to do with insulin resistance, which we tend to have more of as we age based on how we’ve eaten over time and how we eat currently, and has to do with cortisol spikes.
I recently changed how I eat and don’t usually wake in the middle of the night anymore.
Thank you, interesting thought. I have done the Zoe tests and not that my diet needed too much improvement I have improved it somewhat. I have a couple of good nights then this wakefulness in the middle of night, I have even noted what I eat on paper to keep a record and there seems no rhyme or reason, but I will re-think based on what you have said.@@denisea.9033
Not a myth its better for your brains and body to sleep longer.
Having vertigo seems, I need more than 8 hours of sleep.
My mom in law had same problem, and she started drinking electrolytes water in the morning and in the afternoon, she doesn’t have vertigo anymore
My son is 3 and ive not had a single 15:50 night rest, he is autistic. Please tell me how im supposed to function, genuinely please...
He does tell you. Reach out to family & friends and ask for help
I believe melatonin gummies may help him get better sleep.
8h+ offers massive health advantages, if you don't know this you have no idea what you are talking about
Is there a link to ADD to sleep?
I dunno. But my symptoms get 10 times worse when I lack sleep. The brain fog, anxiety and restlessness is amped up.
Why is there a 3 hour video on the 8 hour sleep myth
1st
The problem recommending 8 hours of sleep is that they automatically assume everyone is the same lol thats not realistic.
I am productive on 5 hrs of sleep and wake up each day at 7 in morning without an alarm for decades.
Keith Richards is 80 years old and still rocking. There is no such thing as standard health advice.
Yes there is. Standard health advice comes with an unspoken "everyone is different"
He also cleaned up a long time ago.
3h is way too long. I strongly suggest to use bookmarks and make a summary.
Thanks for your feedback. This is a compilation type episode that many people really enjoy - the best bits from previous conversations with Professors Russell Foster and Mathew Walker. It can be easily paused and restarted when time is short. For people who prefer 15-20 minute short clips, I have a 'clips' channel dedicated to this which you can find here: czcams.com/channels/-z9rGJQllqxAM69-kfgOuQ.html - thanks again for your feedback.
I sleep around 3-4 a night ,,,
I hate waking up to a alarm clock
I take a nap at work almost everyday 😂.
he looks like a Brian, let's just call him Brian Miller, yeah that feels good.
I don't understand why we're told we must have 8 hours sleep when we're told humans use to go for days without food.(ie fasting due to hunting and gathering)
It makes sense that our ancestors did not get 8 hours sleep. Too many reasons are evident that this was not so and in turn, we should not require that much sleep in a row. Imagine tribes or a group of humans living back in the day needing to be on guard at night from dangers and enemies. I don't think they had blocks of safe time to be able to sleep like we're told to do. It just doesn't make sense. *Written when waking up after 5 hours sleep and not able to fall back asleep.
Tea is more diluted than coffee but has more caffeine than coffee
Instead of sleeping 8 hours i listened to this for 3 hours. Now I'm like zombie 🧟♀️ at work
I don't sleep. I wait.