In this interview, world renowned sleep expert, Dr Michael Breus, aka The Sleep Doctor, discusses the importance of high quality sleep and how to achieve it, some powerful “sleep hacks” around caffeine and alcohol, its role in reducing inflammation and strengthening our immune system and much, much more. What an honour to have this gentleman on my podcast! For Video Interview, please go to my blog here SHOW NOTES 3 mins - Dr Breus´background, education, inspiration 5 mins - Change people’s lives in 24 hours. "When you change someone’s sleep, you change their lives - mood, vitality, testosterone, inflammation, everything about them" 7 - We are at the early stages of Sleep Medicine 9 - Everyone can relate to sleep and challenges 10 - My insomnia experience 11 - Sleep Hacks 12 - Caffeine and its parameters 13 - Half life of caffeine 15 - Caffeine sensitivities & stimulants 16 - Fun caffeine hack: The “Napolatte” 20 - Sunshine breaks 21 - Morning hydration 23 - A powerful morning routine 24 - It turns out that most of the time we don’t need caffeine 25 - Alcohol & its effects on sleep 27 - How to hack alcohol consumption. 28 - Unconsciousness vs actual sleep 29 - The circadian rhythm of alcohol dehydrogenase hormone 32 - Systems check 33 - Sleep is the process of body recovery 34 - Sound bite - If you just breathe, drink, sleep - winning 35 - Circadian rhythms and chronotypes 36 - PER3 gene - night owl versus early bird 37 - Genetic form of insomnia 38 - Lions, Bears, Wolves 43 - Chronoquiz.com - discover your Chronotype 45 - Sleep and inflammation 46 - How does sleep help control inflammation? Lack of sleep raises levels of inflammation Too much sleep raises levels of inflammation Sleep deprivation leads to increased C-RP 48 - How do we know if we’re sleep deprived and how long should it take to fall asleep? 49 - What happened when Dr Michael was on the Oprah Winfrey show.. 50 - Covid and sleep - direct link with cytokine inflammatory response, and melatonin. Melatonin can regulate the cytokine response - Cytokine storm - soundbite 51 - If melatonin is not present, response continues to rise 52 - Soundbite on Vitamin C IV 53 - Sugar on sleep and inflammation 54 - Reference to sugar on rheumatoid arthritis patient 55 - Were immunosuppressed if we are inflamed - immediate effect 56 - Step 1: go to chronoquiz.com to find our your sleeping type. Listen to hear steps 2, 3, 4. Wake up routine 57 - Grounding and sleep 58 - EMF Sensitivity. Cell phone use reduces melatonin production. Grounding pad results 59 - Painting a Faraday Cage 60 - The Hidden Rainbow: EMFs exposure and what happened preceding every pandemic for 220 years 61 - Earthing & Grounding 62 - Routines: Breathwork and Meditation 63 - “Sleep is a lot like love” 63 - The Sleep Doctor´s #1 Vitality Secret 64 - Find Dr Michael Breus here: www.thesleepdoctor.com - for articles on sleep, inflammation, testosterone and Covid For Full Video Interview, please visit my blog here: https://vitalitysecret.com/healing-your-body-with-high-quality-sleep-with-the-sleep-doctor-dr-michael-breus/

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