This week on Priority Traffic Podcast, your hosts, Chris and Ben, discuss the basics of sleep from their experience and understanding. They reflect on their nap and sleep routines, helpful gadgets, and ways to help improve their sleep routines. They touch on some low-level science of sleep, reminding the audience that they are not the experts but merely know the importance of sleep and the challenges of sleeping and being a firefighter.

Helpful Resources

• Sleep Basics
• Firefighter Deaths Could be Linked to Poor Sleep
• How Much Time Should You Spend in Each Stage of Sleep?
• The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Fire Fighters and EMS Responders report
  • Sleep Deprivation quiz 
  • Resources 
  • Sleep Deprivation training 
  • The Science of Sleep
• Huberman Lab on Coffee and Caffeine

Book Recommendations

• Hal Elrod - The Miracle Morning

Sleep Accessories

• Eight Sleep Cooling systems
• Hatch Wake up Alarm
• Manta Sleep Masks
• WHOOP Strap
• LED WIFI Lights

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