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Ep 17 - Optimize Your Sleep: Expert Tips from Dr. Elie Gottlieb
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Ep 17 - Optimize Your Sleep: Expert Tips from Dr. Elie Gottlieb

Have you thought about how light can affect your sleep? Do you remember your dreams? Do you know your chronotype? Become a sleep expert with this episode.

This week I had the pleasure of interviewing sleep-expert Dr. Elie Gottlieb all about sleep health, sleep habits, and sleep optimization.

Dr. Elie Gottlieb is a sleep neuroscientist with over 10 years of sleep, circadian rhythm, and neuroscience research experience. In this episode we discuss all the basics of sleep including circadian rhytms, the different stages of sleep, how you can find your sleep chronotype, and delve into the relationship between sleep and mental health, journaling, rituals, and more.

Timestamps:
1:00: How our body knows when to sleep
2:29: What is circadian rhythm?
5:00: The 4 sleep stages
9:05: How light affects your sleep
11:35: Synthetic vs. natural light
14:00: Living with your chronotype
19:00: How to find your chronotype
23:07: How does sleep affect mental health?
26:50: Sleep supplements
31:08: Blue light before bed
33:33: Pre-sleep wind-down routines
36:32: Elie’s sleep routine
39:44: The importance of rituals before bed
42:24: Sleep disorders
45:20: The relationship between sleep and skin health
48:06: Optimal sleep positions
50:00: Where to start to improve your sleep

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Liv


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