Optimizing your sleep quality is one of the best things you can do to improve your fitness results, and life in general.

Unfortunately a lot of the talk about sleep out there is focused on the detrimental effects of sleep loss, and little attention is being put on actually improving your sleep with smart strategies.

In this interview with Dr. Greg Potter, you're going to get nothing but useful and practical tips on improving the quality of your slepe through actional steps that you can start taking right now.

Greg is a PhD and a researcher investigating sleep and chronobiology.

Greg can be found at:

https://www.instagram.com/gdmpotter/

https://twitter.com/gdmpotter

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Greg_Potter4

1:00 - Practical advice on sleep vs fearmongering about sleep-loss

2:55 - Poor communication about sleep

4:26 - Why do people struggle with sleep to begin with?

8:30 - Genetic differences between people's sleep abilities

9:43 - What constitutes 'good sleep'

13:45 - Greg gives a HUGE overview of strategies for better sleep

25:16 - Blue-light blocking glasses and light exposure in general

28:34 - How to properly 'dose' daylight for circadian rhythm optimization

38:01 - Caffeine's half-life and quorter-life and how it works

40:00 - Morning vs afternoon exercise for better sleep

47:44 - Food intake and how to time it for better sleep

57:13 - Sleep-time restriction for better sleep and other cognitive therapies for improving sleep

1:04:14 - Potential future topics if we do a part II with Greg

1:05:00 - Where can we find Greg and more good sleep resources

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Resources mentioned:

AASM sleep facilities for sleep disorders are recommended

National Sleep Foundation

Sleep EO

Sleep Junkies podcast

Every man and his dog by Matthew Walker

Internal Time by Till Ronneberg