Dr. Peter Attia

The beauty of these interventions is if you can isolate them to one change at a time, you can be empirical about it. And something like wearing glasses is benign. I mean, you're only out the money you spend on them. And if it works, great. And if you really want to test it, take them off and see if your symptoms return. And if they don't, Maybe it fixed you.

The beauty of these interventions is if you can isolate them to one change at a time, you can be empirical about it. And something like wearing glasses is benign. I mean, you're only out the money you spend on them. And if it works, great. And if you really want to test it, take them off and see if your symptoms return. And if they don't, Maybe it fixed you.

Maybe it wasn't that who cares if they return and you can fix it. Yeah. Like I try not to be terribly dogmatic about this stuff, but I also think that when people go to great lengths to remove blue light without removing stimulus, they're missing the boat a little bit. And for me, social media is not much of a stimulus actually, because I don't pay that much attention to it, but work is.

Maybe it wasn't that who cares if they return and you can fix it. Yeah. Like I try not to be terribly dogmatic about this stuff, but I also think that when people go to great lengths to remove blue light without removing stimulus, they're missing the boat a little bit. And for me, social media is not much of a stimulus actually, because I don't pay that much attention to it, but work is.

So for me, the single worst thing I can do right before bed is look at email. Whereas watching TV, it's a total beautiful way for me to be distracted by watching something mindless on Netflix for an hour. And as long as I don't go and check my email and see what got sent to me in the last hour, it'll be great. It doesn't matter that I just finished watching a big, bright screen of Netflix.

So for me, the single worst thing I can do right before bed is look at email. Whereas watching TV, it's a total beautiful way for me to be distracted by watching something mindless on Netflix for an hour. And as long as I don't go and check my email and see what got sent to me in the last hour, it'll be great. It doesn't matter that I just finished watching a big, bright screen of Netflix.

It doesn't seem to impact me.

It doesn't seem to impact me.

By the way, do you have a nice template? We have one that we give our patients. Again, it's super low-tech. It's a piece of paper. So low-tech. Do you have one on your UCSF website?

By the way, do you have a nice template? We have one that we give our patients. Again, it's super low-tech. It's a piece of paper. So low-tech. Do you have one on your UCSF website?

Yeah, yeah. Okay, maybe we'll link to it in the show notes. Yeah, easy to do. We could link ours as well, but yours is probably better. Ours is like boxes you color in. Oh, yeah. And it's like you put C when you had caffeine, A when you had alcohol, E when you exercise.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, maybe we'll link to it in the show notes. Yeah, easy to do. We could link ours as well, but yours is probably better. Ours is like boxes you color in. Oh, yeah. And it's like you put C when you had caffeine, A when you had alcohol, E when you exercise.

So we're documenting when did you exercise, when did you have food, alcohol, caffeine, and when were you in bed and when were you sleeping by the shading.

So we're documenting when did you exercise, when did you have food, alcohol, caffeine, and when were you in bed and when were you sleeping by the shading.

It's so easy to do. To be clear, is there a particular brand?

It's so easy to do. To be clear, is there a particular brand?

What fraction of people are such rapid caffeine metabolizers that they seem immune to caffeine and sleep?

What fraction of people are such rapid caffeine metabolizers that they seem immune to caffeine and sleep?

Okay. Low hanging fruit. Just stop it at 11. Stop it. Do the experiment at a minimum. Okay. So those are three.

Okay. Low hanging fruit. Just stop it at 11. Stop it. Do the experiment at a minimum. Okay. So those are three.