Gary Brecka

If you look at the correlation between sleep deprivation and early onset cognitive decline, neurodevelopmental disorders, mood disorders, hormonal disruption, so much could be solved in our life by just getting back to the basics.

It's because it's the most mobile thing in our schedule.

It's the only thing that we control that we can actually schedule around.

Six years ago, I decided that I would schedule all of my meetings and travel around sleep and exercise.

So if you actually look at my phone right now, you would see that no matter where I am in the world, the first thing on my schedule is sleep, and the next thing is exercise, and then everything else falls into the calendar around that.

I think the majority of the reason why most people don't draw attention to their sleep is they're unaware of the impact that this has on really true human function.

About half of this audience has a gene mutation called CompT.

And so when you go to bed at night and your environment quiets, your mind wakes up.

And you lay there body tired, but mind awake.

And this is called rumination.

These are very easy issues to solve.

There's targeted supplementation that quiets these catecholamines and quiets the mind.

The same neurotransmitter cascade that leads to anxiety, anxiousness, ADD, ADHD, OCD.

So I really think we haven't emphasized the importance of having a sleep routine.

If we went around the audience and I asked you, what's your routine to go to sleep?

Most people just haven't developed one.

We have a routine to get our kids to school.

We have a routine for exercise.

But we actually don't have good sleep hygiene.

I don't know if I answered your question or I just rambled for five minutes.