Dr. Peter Attia

When we're on bow hunting trips, you are going to bed insanely late and waking up insanely early. It's just the nature of when you get back to camp and eating and then you got to be up super early. So I've never been on one of these trips where I could actually be in bed for more than five and a half, six hours in a night. So the strategy is to get that sleep.

When we're on bow hunting trips, you are going to bed insanely late and waking up insanely early. It's just the nature of when you get back to camp and eating and then you got to be up super early. So I've never been on one of these trips where I could actually be in bed for more than five and a half, six hours in a night. So the strategy is to get that sleep.

But then I always try to get a 90 minute nap at around one in the afternoon. And the reason I pick 90 is to get a full sleep cycle. And I tend to function incredibly well under those circumstances. Because remember, you're also very physically active. Like this is demanding time. So would I be better off not doing that nap midday?

But then I always try to get a 90 minute nap at around one in the afternoon. And the reason I pick 90 is to get a full sleep cycle. And I tend to function incredibly well under those circumstances. Because remember, you're also very physically active. Like this is demanding time. So would I be better off not doing that nap midday?

Okay. All right. Got it.

Okay. All right. Got it.

While we're on that topic, what do you say to the legions of people watching who fall asleep watching TV on the couch? Oh, the worst.

While we're on that topic, what do you say to the legions of people watching who fall asleep watching TV on the couch? Oh, the worst.

What about just the social dynamic of it, which is when you have a couple, not that I'm saying this from experience at all, and one part of that couple, they want to be together and watch TV, but one member of that team falls asleep immediately while the other does not. And the one that does not tries to tell the one that is to go to bed, but that one wants to be with the other.

What about just the social dynamic of it, which is when you have a couple, not that I'm saying this from experience at all, and one part of that couple, they want to be together and watch TV, but one member of that team falls asleep immediately while the other does not. And the one that does not tries to tell the one that is to go to bed, but that one wants to be with the other.

I don't know if you can ever imagine a scenario like that.

I don't know if you can ever imagine a scenario like that.

I'm just making it up.

I'm just making it up.

Doesn't appear to be.

Doesn't appear to be.

The problem is sometimes other members of the family who tend to be smaller also tend to be occupying all of the bandwidth during those earlier hours when the member of the family in question is able to be awake.

The problem is sometimes other members of the family who tend to be smaller also tend to be occupying all of the bandwidth during those earlier hours when the member of the family in question is able to be awake.

Obviously, I'm talking about my wife here, so I'll stop double speaking. But if my wife falls asleep every single time on the couch, but then when said Netflix is over and we go up to bed, she falls right back asleep and it doesn't seem to keep her awake. Is it pathologic?

Obviously, I'm talking about my wife here, so I'll stop double speaking. But if my wife falls asleep every single time on the couch, but then when said Netflix is over and we go up to bed, she falls right back asleep and it doesn't seem to keep her awake. Is it pathologic?