Dr. Jamie Zeitzer Assistant Professor at Stanford: Expert on Sleep Circadian Biology

Dr. Jamie Zeitzer is an expert on circadian biology in sleep. He received his BA in biology at Vassar College, a Phd in neurobiology at Harvard University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA and Stanford. Currently he works as an Assistant Professor at Stanford.

The reason I wanted to talk to Jamie Zeitzer today is because of his strong research background and expertise in sleep medicine. He has published a lot of research on many topics that are of interest, including sleep, circadian biology, the vagus nerve, and several SNPs. I’m actually not sure if he's into health at all. The purpose of this interview is to try to peek our heads into some of the most recent science on these subjects. So I’m really excited to have him.

In this interview we cover how light affects our circadian rhythm and our sleep, what percentage of genes may be controlled by our circadian rhythms (his prediction may shock you), how to determine your individual requirement of necessary sleep, testing for 'sleep quality' (and what the definition of sleep quality is), sleep apnea, and why you're waking up tired, marijuana's effects on sleep, and the problems in our medical establishment, which are preventing necessary testing and treatments needed for certain sleep disorders.