Dr. Peter Attia

Stock trading? Not if it's stressful. I wouldn't do that. Okay. So there's a narrow subset of activities that you are going to get out of bed to do.

Stock trading? Not if it's stressful. I wouldn't do that. Okay. So there's a narrow subset of activities that you are going to get out of bed to do.

Yep.

Yep.

Yep. One obvious thing we haven't talked about, and maybe it's so obvious we don't need to, but just to close the loop on it is food and alcohol and how they pertain to this. What's the checklist you run through with the clients?

Yep. One obvious thing we haven't talked about, and maybe it's so obvious we don't need to, but just to close the loop on it is food and alcohol and how they pertain to this. What's the checklist you run through with the clients?

So they just don't enroll until they're... No, no, no.

So they just don't enroll until they're... No, no, no.

Are there any specific cognitive techniques that people are instructed to be working on when they first wake up?

Are there any specific cognitive techniques that people are instructed to be working on when they first wake up?

Nothing. There's nothing, no mind game to play. It's all behavior, behavior, behavior.

Nothing. There's nothing, no mind game to play. It's all behavior, behavior, behavior.

Let's talk about sleep supplements. So do you do a purge of supplements when people come to you and they say, hey, I'm taking a pound of melatonin every night. I'm on an ashwagandha drip. Just rattle them off. We could go through the list.

Let's talk about sleep supplements. So do you do a purge of supplements when people come to you and they say, hey, I'm taking a pound of melatonin every night. I'm on an ashwagandha drip. Just rattle them off. We could go through the list.

Yes, I think we wrote a newsletter on one of them.

Yes, I think we wrote a newsletter on one of them.

Let's assume that they're taking melatonin because they're getting it from one of the companies that submits to third party testing. And so now they know they're doing it. And again, let's further posit that they're not taking a dose that is deemed too high.

Let's assume that they're taking melatonin because they're getting it from one of the companies that submits to third party testing. And so now they know they're doing it. And again, let's further posit that they're not taking a dose that is deemed too high.

So if you look at some of the sleep literature, there seems to be most people would agree anything north of a milligram is probably just too much. Whereas kind of in the 300 to 600 microgram, there might be some benefit. And more importantly, not just benefit, but actually safety. You're not downregulating melatonin receptors. You're offsetting the natural decline in melatonin levels over time.

So if you look at some of the sleep literature, there seems to be most people would agree anything north of a milligram is probably just too much. Whereas kind of in the 300 to 600 microgram, there might be some benefit. And more importantly, not just benefit, but actually safety. You're not downregulating melatonin receptors. You're offsetting the natural decline in melatonin levels over time.