The Snooze Button EXPRESS

This is the 9-minute Express version of The Snooze Button podcast.

Neil's sleep doctor, Dr. Mark Boulos from Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, made exactly two tweaks to Neil's sleep after his first in-lab sleep test.  Now it's time to see the results of the second sleep test, to see if those tweaks made a difference.

Also, we have some great news to share about Episode 14 from a couple of different angles!

Sleep is a mysterious thing, in terms of just what happens in your brain. How do you explain people who walk in their sleep? Talk in their sleep? Or ride motorcycles? Or worse?

Dr. Guy Leschziner's new book, "The Nocturnal Brain", shows just how much we still have to learn.

He's got listeners in more countries than he even knew existed. And for them, what John Watson is doing is making a huge difference.

John runs an online radio station that plays relaxation music and binaural beats to tens of thousands of people every month.

We talk about how the project started, where it's headed and how musicians can get their material played online.

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Rather than ask somebody that runs a mattress shop for advice about the best mattress to get, we thought we'd get a different opinion.  What about a chiropractor?

Meet Dr. Jon Saunders - he's Neil's chiropractor - who gets complaints and questions all day long from patients who are looking for better answers about sleep as it relates to things like back and neck pain.

So Jon and Neil cover a little of everything in this episode, from sleeping positions, to what to look for when it comes to pillows and mattresses, too.

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Dr. Jon on Twitter

Website for Dr. Jon's practice

Dr. Jon's Instagram

Dr. Jon's Facebook page

And here's the link to the video about sleeping posture that Jon refers to in this episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15DBe9XrgF4

Dr. Conor Heneghan is the Lead Sleep Researcher at Fitbit.  in this episode of The Snooze Button Express, he talks with Neil about trackers, best practices for sleep trackers, and how Fitbit's new 'Sleep Score' is calculated.

Neil flies solo for a special episode of The Snooze Button podcast, with a chance to do a little housekeeping, answer a little mail, and call out an ad that swaps false hope for a few bucks.

Our regular format returns next week.

Let's talk trackers!

Dr. Michael Grandner is the Director of the Sleep & Health Research Program, and the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic, both at the University of Arizona.

In this episode, he walks through Neil's obsession with his wearable tracker data, and whether it's dependable to begin with.

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Dr. Michael Grandner on Twitter

MichaelGrandner.com

The second of two parts in a conversation about Major League Baseball as the 2019 PostSeason continues to unfold.

Part 1 featured Dr. Ravi Allada from Northwestern University, discussing a link between jet lag and specific statistics that demonstrate its impact.

In Part 2, we meet up with Dan Shulman from ESPN (or as Neil prefers to call him, The Voice of Major League Baseball) and talk about what it's like traveling to a different city every night to cover the games and what impact that has on his own sleep, and we get his thoughts on Dr. Allada's study and others like it.

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Dan Shulman on Twitter

Dr. Ravi Allada, Professor at Northwestern University, has combed through the statistics from decades of Major League Baseball games, and has discovered one specific statistic that is profoundly impacted by jet lag.

As we begin the 2019 PostSeason in MLB, Neil talks to Dr. Allada about the role circadian rhythms play in America's national pastime, and in other sports as well.

We continue our 2019 MLB PostSeason theme with a special Bonus Episode on Wednesday, October 9 featuring Dan Shulman from ESPN.

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Dr. Ravi Allada on Twitter

How Jet Lag Impairs MLB Performance (Study)