Good sleep does more than recharge you—it can improve your mental clarity, mood, and long-term health. In this episode of “The Doctor’s Farmacy,” Dr. Mark Hyman looks back on his conversations with experts Andrew Huberman, Bryan Johnson, and Dr. Cindy Geyer to explore how light, food, and stress affect your sleep quality. You’ll get actionable tips to fix your sleep routine and learn why a restorative night’s rest is critical for protecting against cognitive decline and chronic disease. View Show Notes From This Episode Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman Sign Up for Dr. Hyman’s Weekly Longevity Journal Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here: How to Rewire Your Brain For Sleep The Science of Living Longer: Diet, Supplements, & Sleep What Is Driving Your Poor Sleep And How Can You Fix It? This episode is brought to you by OneSkin and AX3. Unlock your healthiest skin yet. Try OneSkin with 15% off your first purchase using code HYMAN15 at OneSkin.co today. Get 20% off your first order of AX3's astaxanthin at ax3.life/hyman with code HYMAN at checkout.
Chapter 1: What are the effects of poor sleep on health?
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But the amyloid plaque, that sticky plaque that we secrete in response to inflammation or injury, if it accumulates, of course, it can damage surrounding neurons and is associated with neurodegenerative disease and Alzheimer's disease.
So in English, that means if you don't sleep, you're likely to get demented.
It's definitely playing a role.
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Chapter 2: How can light exposure improve sleep?
So well, that's unusual. So we did some of the usual testing for causes of fatigue. We tested her thyroid, it was okay. We looked at her iron levels or sugar levels, they were okay. So I decided to do screen her with a sleep study. And it turned out you would not have looked at her and said, oh yes, she is the poster child for sleep apnea.
She turned out to have one of the most striking positional components to sleep apnea I've ever seen. When she was on her side, her sleep was normal, but when she was on her back, she had respiratory events that count as either a slowing of airflow or a stopping of airflow more than 60 times an hour.
Wow. She stopped breathing 60 times an hour.
Yes, yes.
Like once a minute.
That's a lot. No wonder she was exhausted, right? So when you see a positional component like that, I have people who don't want to do a sleep study because they don't want to, I'd never wear that stupid mask. But for her, we said, okay, well, let's start with retraining you to learn to sleep on your side. And she tried that. There's some commercially available positional devices.
There are all kinds of strategies you can do.
There's a very, very sophisticated technology. It's called the tennis ball strategy, where you sew a tennis ball into a T-shirt on the back. So if you roll over on your back, it makes you flip over to your side.
or the fanny pack with the pillow stuffed in it. Yeah, there's all kinds of strategies you could do. And of course, it's big business, right? You can buy a slumber bump or a bumper belt.
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