The World’s No.1 Sleep Expert: The 6 Sleep Hacks You NEED! Matthew Walker 

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Great Job Steven, will do. Will check this one out tonight

As a Lifestyle Medicine Physician - who has also personally suffered with sleep disturbance from long-term hospitalisation and injury ( hospitals are the worst for health - that is a presentation in itself !). The importance of good sleep practices cannot be overemphasized - it is linked with every aspect of health, well-being and balance - thank you.😊

Air b and b's are a terrible thing for this country, so its kind of counter intuitive promoting sleep and then promoting capitalism. Hypocrite warning.

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Thank u! I needed this info quickly, and your post helped!

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Love u Lotz, God bless !

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Sometimes my girlfriend and I sleep in separate beds and it’s the best. She also works overnight so we probably share a bed about twice a week. I sleep so much better and have way more space. It really shouldn’t be seen as a weird thing

I'm 70. Most of our friends sleep apart because of snoring or tossing and turning.

I was thinking that!! His voice is so super soothing.

Yes, indeed! He should make sleep tapes!😊

it's good for sleeping too. Also the smirks and laughs are very mischievous :))

I was thinking the same 😊

the way he talks is also so sophisticated

There is public health campaign on the British motor ways in relation to tiredness. Not the same, but av a connection.

Kate Bremen Same reason why ‘noise insulation’ in housing should be monitored (like Energy efficiency is).UK Government had chance to pass a drive on this, years ago BUT they chose to shelve the issue. I was struggling with sleep due to neighbours in a flat at the time.

This is so TRUE❗️

I have uploaded a very powerful meditation guided by Abraham Hicks, it helps me every morning and the results are just amazing... I added some stunning ocean views as well. U can find it on my page. Enjoy🥰

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I can support his claims of being an early/late riser. I majored in neuroscience. My tutor was doing her Phd on that very topic. It's genetic, we're locked in. Choose a partner who is the same. Period. Stop worrying about getting sleep. Almost no human lives without sleep. You will collapse, eventually. Most of us are simply not physically exhausted. Also, as we age the sleep requirement changes with age.

@theflaca I used to be a late sleeper, now I'm fortune if I get 6.5 hours of sleep. When I was a caregiver, I'd want to stay in bed to sleep. I'm retired now & automatically get up around 4 or 4:30 am:-(((

Most doctors just prescribe medications. They don't educate. We have to be advocates for ourselves and ask intelligent questions, expecting answers.

He is amazing isn't he!!? If you learned lots from this one, you should listen to his one with Rich Roll. So much different info. This guy is a true fountain of knowledge!

So did he say how to get sleep cause I'm an hour in & I've head nothing about how you get to sleep

You're so welcome! Team DOAC 🙏

​​@@TheDiaryOfACEOare you paying for fake comments? Anyone commenting with user handle starting user-xk..... is always a bot or guy in an Indian call centre/comment centre

@@aldozilli1293Same thought, incredibly sus

no time constraint to interrupt like TV which is better for all of us.

That's great to hear, i just listened to the Huberman and Walker podcast and there were a lot of interruptions. Looking forward to hearing Walker speak more without interruptions.

Yep just the constant stream of ads that popped up every 5 minutes interrupted the flow 😊

Yes! And had the best questions. He clearly always has read the person’s book, has done major planning in advance.

Maybe that a,hole Pearce Morgan could learn from him.

Another topic that needs to be explored in huge detail. It literally derails you. The most important figure in this new humans life. For years I wanted to get into Antenatal Health for this reason and for many more. The whole spectrum of issues related to caring for new humans needs more exploring more understanding. At the core women need more support. Your right our modern society is not designed to support women through some of the most stressful years of life. It’s no wonder people are having less, the emotional toll of an under-supported family unit results in generations of traumatised individuals, sick individuals. So we know those first 7 years are vital. Let’s design a government intervention family support system that works with mothers and their kids in those early years. Let’s set it up that Women are liaising with each other. Encouraging more community more support. Let’s bring back the village.

You nave my heartfelt empathy. I went through a similar experience with my only child, as a single mother, living alone and entirely on my own. It was a painful awakening to just how out of balance modern societies are. I pray you are creating a plan to have more solutions in place for the arrival of your next baby. You and your family need, and deserve, a better experience for this next post-birth and infancy phase. Blessings to you❣🙏💞

Yes!!

How awful for all of you! I agree something needs to be done, especially for working parents.

@@Truthseekingdivinefemale There definitely needs to be more support for all, and I'm especially concerned by the lack of community support for (especially undiagnosed) disabled children and (undiagnosed) disabled people who want to be parents. My childhood was profoundly awful for having a lack of correct support (I'm autistic, ADHD and mildly dyslexic but being a woman who is extra sensitive and technically intelligent [none of the conditions affect intelligence contrary to public perception] my disabilities were not fully obvious to people or diagnosed correctly at the time) at the moment raising neurodiverse children is incredibly demanding because the correct support doesn't exist (having been previously built on the idea you can 'fix' a neurotype by demanding a disabled person with different needs ignores their needs and puts additional efforts into seeming less disabled). My disabilities stop me from ever wanting children (especially the whole anything touching my skin hurts/I have a blood phobia too, so I don't feel like splitting body parts open to allow out other humans thanks, part) but there are many neurodiverse people who would make incredible parents who want kids or don't realise they are disabled until they have kids. It's a form of eugenics to deem disabled people as unworthy parents and disabled children as unworthy of existing. That's where a community is extra necessary for providing the necessary support and helping all members of society thrive.

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He’s such a good listener! 🙌

Exactly that’s why it’s hard for me to watch joe Rogan because he always wants to interrupt every damn time

I have uploaded a very powerful meditation guided by Abraham Hicks, it helps me every morning and the results are just amazing... I added some stunning ocean views as well. U can find it on my page. Enjoy🥰

No I don't feel he is asking the most important question about sleep.

I don't think it's underrated at all. It's accurately rated as very compelling, hence why he can attract high calibre guests and retain a large audience over a variety of subject matter.

Wide awake at 2 A.M. And I'll still be awake after watching this.

1:14am here lol

3am and watching

@@Moteo171:30 lmaoo

2.43. Fell asleep listening, woke up several hours later, listening again so I can sleep well. lol

She's a good woman 🙂

It's called a graveyard shift for a reason!

Man. Sleeping at work? Unremarkable. Now sleeping through a FIRE ALARM while on the job? Legendary!

It's a shame it doesn't work.l The only time I almost fell asleep was listening to this nonsense

@@tommac21😂 you’re mean

@@tommac21you’ll pay the price soon

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Do Germans get particularly annoyed with interruption?

@@christ9359 no.but Gernan podcast and tv show hosts keep doing it , so it's soothing to see it can be done differently 😁

Exactly how. Because this does nothing. No one can show you how to sleep. If so I would have been getting more then 4 for the last 40 years

@@tommac21What do you mean by nobody is able to show you how to sleep?

​@@christ9359are you asking a serious question? Do you need to be German to hate interrupting, wow...

I am bipolar and sleep is crucial for me to stay out of the hospital.

Kate Brennan. I have been writing to my State Senator for the past four years about this. I have done some research and conversations at the public library near my job. Most parents agree that it's important to teach their children to sleep enough hours per night and have a nap sometime in the afternoon. Like a power nap per se. Perhaps, if the men and women in government made it a *must* or a *law* that children and teenagers who attend classes need to have at least thirty or forty minutes naps. It will help them, as Matthew Walter says, it will help the people remember most facts. But the discipline of sleep, exercise, etc should always start at home. I have seen the impact of power naps on my oldest niece; her grades went from Ds to Bs. I guess depends on each person's physiology. But it is a start.

Governments care about society’s health status?

Crystal, I agree with you. I think, also, that most behavior and anger issues with students is because they’re sleepy!

@Kay Hathaway Thank you. I have three nieces, two of them are teenagers, 14, and 12, and the youngest is 9. Mihaela, who is 12, I gave her and Millie 9, a nap time between homework assignments. They are always acting happy, goofy. The oldest, Isa, is always grumpy. Lol! So, in other words, I agree with you. Sometimes, lack of sleep or naps makes teens uneasy and lash out. She won't listen to me much! 😅 😅

Ikr... It took me 2 days to listen to this podcast because I kept nodding off.

I'm actually watching this because I can't sleep.. but now I'm sleepy it's so magical 🫣😅 and your right his voice doesn't come out as harsh and just mild he even explained the topic well I wonder why I'm sleepy now 😂

yes, I fell asleep while listening to him. His voice is truly relaxing...

Thank you so much to both of you. Loved all the information in this conversation

I find Dr Walker's voice and material very intriguing.

Interesting TRUTHS Choices and Shareable SECRETS

A healthy lifestyle equates to a better lifestyle it's not about when you're dead

EXACTLY!

YES. The exact opposite of Piers Morgan

Beautiful mate, nicely done, God bless all your precious efforts

I was treating it as a tool to sleep..i m an alcoholic, too Advice, maybe? when travelling..I m deprived of Wine Sometimes Then..I cannot SLEEP Any advice from you? I'd love yr REPLY

Why do you take sleep meds... are they natural?

@@les9058 You know, now that I think of it, I think I’ve used different things to intervene and help me sleep. I began taking Benadryl years ago because the prescription stuff made me feel absolutely terrible. I understand now that the coping mechanisms that I was exposed to as a kid play a role in how I deal with things as an adult, and with that realization comes the responsibility to do better…it’s slow going but it’s going.

@@MelaniaGuiti I drink and I know it affects my sleep quality but what really messes with my insomnia etc is drinking different amounts on different days i.e. if I have 2 drinks per night regularly. then one night I have 5 my sleep suffers and wake up feeling lousy - going from 4-5 drinks a night to 2 then I will get the insomnia part. Right now I try to live by the rule "just say no to the first one and saying no to the second one is easy"

Glad it's helped. Everyone deserves their own space to fully reset and it's even more healthy for couples. From a young age I latched onto the idea of separate bedrooms being incredibly statistically healthy to lasting relationships and sleep and I couldn't understand why others fully rejected the stats. I've still never had a relationship from choosing not to be in a relationship someone unsuitable and at nearly 30 I can confidently say I would gladly spend the rest of my life single over being a worse human for the sleep deprivation and extreme co-dependency (that is often mistaken for love).

Sometimes that's all it takes. Good for u guys!!

My husband and I had a “sleep divorce” 20 years ago and it saved my life. I’m so grateful for podcasts like this. Our marriage is 48 years strong now and has never been so good.

Great idea, I think I'll switch to decaf as I do love the taste but it's really ruining my sleep

That is awesome. I am so happy for you both!!!🎉 ❤ please keep working. Don't be another divorce in statistics. Life is better having someone 😊

We enjoy our sleep and each other. Let’s find a better term than “sleep divorce” to make it more appealing. 😊💕

You're not alone... I was thinking the same thing, looking forward to this also

He never discussed 5HTP that’s an amazing aid for sleep and natural helps with anxiety and appetite. It has changed my life.

Check your serotonin and adrenaline levels! Trust me this is what healed me after quiting coffee, quiting this and that and doing everything right with light exposure, meditation etc

The way the modern world has dictated how we live our lives is making life hard. I am not a morning person, and have always struggled to be switched on for work, before 10am. We are not designed to work 8-12 hours in one block.

@@nessytheweightloss How did finding these levels out help? Like what sort of changes did you personally make that helped??

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I can attess to that😅, It has taken me 3 days to finish this podcast. Dr Walker's voice is soothing, it was putting me into sleep after some time of listening. Very good presenter though, well articulated and simplified presentation🙌🙌

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Does he mention Tea vs Coffee at all ?

I recently flew to AntiAgingBed HQ in Florida and passed out copies of WHY WE SLEEP 💤🧠 Sweet Dreams

Same.

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I had my first bipolar manic episode when I was 20. I was awake for a week after taking a mescaline tablet. I still cannot sleep unless I take Ambien.

​@@blondefox69 oh my. That's terrible.😮

@@Empath79 There is always the dumb ass that blames everything on capitalism.

​@@blondefox69 The mescaline wasn't the drug that kept you awake. Mescaline has a half life of 6 hours.

Yes absolutely, I have struggled my whole life with sleep. Recently however, I got involved with the Zoe Big IF study and it has changed so much without being that hard to do. Its Time Restricted Eating and, because I seem to have naturally gravitated to eating within a 9 hour window, they ask you to try for 10, I have started sleeping better and my mood and energy are way up. Its not even that you feel particularly hungry but, if you start eating at say 9am and finish at 1800, (you can drink water, black coffee or tea outwith the eating window so long as theres no sugar or sweetners in it) it clearly does your digestion a big favour. I think its started me getting into a routine of getting up just before 6am, drinking black coffee until I eat at 9am, you also get a lot done in the early hours, then finish eating by 6pm, you go to bed earlier and, perhaps because the coffee is before 9am and the getting up earlier, you actually end up going to sleep and getting a better sleep much earlier. Its been wonderful, my IBS bloating has improved too. Who knew that changing when you eat can make such profound differences on everything. I would encourage anyone struggling to give it a try. You dont change what you eat or the amount, just the time. I think it sends a clear message to your gut microbes to stop working and let the ones who specialise in cleanup to actually do their work and everything else is knock on effects to that.

@@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws INTERMITTENT FASTING IS WHAT YOU ARE DESCRIBING YOU DO, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SLEEP , NOTHING AT ALL

Idk if you have tried it but a good meditation video really helped me when i listened while going to bed, it really helps focus the mind on getting to sleep

@@Sg4809 Can you recommend good meditation videos or apps? Thanks

@@Maggie-zr2ow extreme hypnosis for success channel on RU-vid 🙂

Do you know him personally ? Because he doesn't help with sleep

SLEEP is the SWISS ARMY KNIFE of HEALth'

Your partner may have sleep apnea and needs a sleep study 🙏🏼

Well you saved yourself money and time.

@@tommac21it seems you are going through something by your numerous negative replies you’ve left to people’s positive comments. i hope you find healing and reflection

@@tommac21bros purpose is to spread hatred

Is it ok to use OTC meds to get 8 hours of sleep??

Aim for 6 or 7.5 hours. Rem cycles every 1 and half hours. Study shows aiming for 8 hours your guaranteed to wake up around the 6 hour mark and it throws your sleep off. I like 6 hours as I want to get the most out my life if I could sleep less I would but 6 hours feels perfect I wouldn't rely on sleeping tablets it's a quick fix and will do more damage down the line. I listen to meditation sleep music find what sounds you feel through tour body trust me works wonders I've 38 been listening to it ever since I lost my mother and father 4 years ago. Without that I would spiral and put me down a horrible ugly path but I'm great I feel great and I get alot out of life now. Ps I didn't have any issues prior to their deaths

I'm grabbing another 2 copies.. Sleep RECOVERY HEALin solutions are available NOW 🫒🫂👣💤🧠

​@@MariaLopez-mi4ol not according to the science of SLEEP Sleep Sedation does have side effects... Optimally 7,8,9 hours of quality 💤👣🧠😍😍😍

​@@shaunmacready701... shoot for 7,8,9 of needed sleep 💤🫂🔌👣🧠😴🤎😍😍😍

I agree with the sentiment but it's not 'selfless' to follow your heart. When you follow your passions like that it's a joy to learn and share your knowledge with others it's not losing sight of yourself or being self scarfing - it's filling yourself up enough to generously give. We should never seek to get away from ourselves to help others - we should always seek to be in touch with ourselves to help others. Being self centred has both negative and positive qualities and it's only in getting in touch with what lights us up that we can be a torch to others. (Also we should sleep for our sanity and well being productivity is a nice byproduct which shouldn't be the main goal)

The fact you did that todays a lot to me ♾️

Kings and queens have their own sleeping rooms

Sorry to hear that. Must be so afraid for a child to have fear of sleep.💓

As a child, i had this particular kind of involuntary visualization as I was falling asleep that was utterly terrifying, and made me afraid to go to sleep. I learned as an adult that this was the result of the neural network growing in some regions, being pared away in others, and some small percentage of the population suffers these terrors upon drowning off in childhood. None of my 4 siblings had them . My husband was the first person I ever met who also had suffered them. To this day we are the only two people I personally know who had them. I would not wish it on anyone, I already had a pretty traumatic childhood going on! I cannot express how grateful I was to finally outgrow it. Interestingly, I developed a coping mechanism back then to help me, which Dr Walker describes: the visualization of something in GREAT detail. I would turn on my sisters click radio to the classical station and visualize the music as garments: what color, what fabric, what sleeves, what skirt, where ribbons or buttons, etc. Music has always evoked images for me, so even as a 7-10 year old while this was happening, I could use the image the music brought to mind to distract my brain from the fear of the terrors. Interesting to hear him talk about this method here.

Me too but mine wasn't a fear of sleep I'm so sorry for what you endured OCD is truly EVIL and my sleep was literally taken away from me 💤 I lost hours, days, weeks and years of my LIFE because of OCD and I even went to the hospital more then once because of it and I still suffer at times but I'm definitely doing much better then I was 5-10 years ago I really wasn't doing well it took over my LIFE and now I've let go and I decided that I want my LIFE and I don't want it wasting away so for me journaling, meditation, laughter, music and being one with nature is what saved me letting go is key 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

Intermittent fasting may well help, my partner finds it the only way to manage his weight, he cannot diet, however he can do one meal a day (he eats pretty much what he wants within a 2hr window once a day). You will find pretty quickly that you adapt to fasting and can go for much of the day without eating. Dr Berg and Dr Jason Fung on RU-vid have a ton of info on this.

@@sunmoonstars3879 Thanks for your advice. I am already doing OMAD diet and Sun Salutation 108 times. Been only 6 days but seeing some changes.

WE are alllllllllllllllll WORKS' in PROgress ....alll the smalll things add UP Great read WHY WE SLEEP By Matthew Walker

@@barryminor616 yeah but you know how we are all stuck in the mind. The strength of mind is the biggest challenge.

Nothing bad with craving salty food, at least you are not craving sugar

Pro tip - don't drink coffee until you've been up for about an hour and a half. It screws with the adenosine if drunk before you're fully awake. Get up, walk (movement), get sunlight. Wait an hour and a half. (An hour is still fine, just not quite as effective. You want to be fully awake) If you do this it should improve the afternoon crashes and post lunch naps. When I wait the full hour and a half, I don't get the coffee crash in the afternoon and also when I eat lunch, the food doesn't make me as drowsy. From Dr Andrew Huberman here on RU-vid, another great resource.

@@130rne I thought Huberman said 45 mins after waking?

Generally parents in the Philippines force their kids to get afternoon naps everyday. I grew up with the practice and imposed the same to my kids. Sadly, modernity took the practice especially in the cities

Be'n respectful of sleep requirements changes everything in your quality of sleep and waking relationships!

agree! @@les9058

Any chocolate…

he has acknowledged the fearmongering aspects of his book in other interviews and has toned it down. luckily i sleep like a baby every night. i went the bed and everything...

I fell asleep after 20 minutes thanks Doc.

And what does that have to do with anything. He's just another person. No better or worse then you orI I

I wonder if that's an explanation for caffeine and other substance addiction. Those of us who really would just function better at night but are forced to stay awake all day in a hellish existence

How do you deal with that? I find my self in the same situation as many other probably, but it seems that there’s no real solution.

It’s especially hard when you’re young. So many kids are put to bed too early for the convenience of the adults leaving them to toss and turn and a lifetime of insomnia. And teenagers are very sleep deprived so when they’re expected to be physically and mentally present at school at 8:00 am it’s no wonder they don’t do well. It’s an enormous luxury to be able to sleep when you’re tired and get up when you’re fully rested. People are different and living in a regimented society that fights nature takes years off our lives

Shift work actually is useful for night owls... those not morn'n people... rather than get less sleep and drag yourself to work at 7-9am.... you Can work 10-6pm or 4-11pm in many good jobs Now and Still have a family. I hated day shift... but swing was perfect.. fit my natural rhythms. All the morn'n people love you for do'n it so they are spared... 🤫

Amazing where'd you find the info?

What type of ashwaganda are you taking ?! Ive been thinking of starting it for my anxiety .. Im not against meds buuut I rather take a more natural route .. much appreciated

Great thought!

….I take organic ashwagandha, helps with sleep, anxiety, stress and overall calm. Himalaya is the brand.