Sleep helps you perform better at everything.
Everything.
At work. At home. And all the places in between.
Now, what if you’re less interested in doing more than in being the best version of yourself?
Sleeps helps there, too.
This is the message of Doctor Kirk Parsley, known widely as Doc Parsley. He is a medical doctor, sleep and hormonal modulation expert, consultant to corporations and professional teams, and former Sleep Medicine expert for Navy Special Warfare.
One other distinction: Doc Parsley is physically strong. Who better to disabuse us of the notion that “sleep is for the weak” than a former Navy SEAL and competitive athlete?
Highlights
- 5:00 What persuades people to pay attention to their sleep
- 22:00 How our ancestors maximized slow wave sleep
- 26:30 How REM sleep cements everything you learned that day
- 33:30 How sleep can help you when starting a new leadership role
- 39:30 Doc Parsley’s journey from competitive athlete to Navy SEAL to physician to sleep expert
- 44:00 Navy SEALs with blood panels you’d expect in an out-of-shape 65-year-old man
- 57:00 The great results you can get from one week of great sleep
- 59:00 Sleep hygiene
- 1:02:30 How catching up on sleep is like paying off credit card debt
- 1:08:30 The ideal length of a nap
- 1:12:30 Perimenopausal and menopausal women and their hormonal and sleep challenges
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The time you get better at everything is while you sleep
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If I gave you $1M to make sleep your #1 priority for a week, could you do it?
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Explore Additional Resources
- Web site of Doctor Kirk Parsley (“Doc Parsley”)
- Doc Parsley’s TEDx talk
- Dr. Sara Mednick, author of Take a Nap!
- “Dude, where’s my frontal cortext?” Article by Dr. Robert Sapolsky of Stanford
- Sleep hygiene: tips from Doc Parsley and the National Sleep Foundation
- Women’s Health Initiative: overview of hormone therapy trials and criticisms of the study
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