korrents

korrents · Huberman Lab

Dr. Matt Walker: How to Structure Your Sleep, Use Naps & Time Caffeine | Huberman Lab Guest Series

Matthew Walker · 2h 18m · youtube.com ↗

10 korrents from this recording

1h2h
Matthew Walker did not write this page.

Every claim below is a statement made in this recording, quoted word for word and linked to the second it was said, so you can hear it rather than take our word for it. The wording comes from the transcript published alongside the recording; the sentence above each quote is our reading of the claim, not their wording.

  1. 0:47:33 · watch on youtube.com↗

    if you are struggling with sleep and you suffer from insomnia the advice is do not nap during the day because you're setting yourself up for an even higher probability of failure at night
  2. 8 min later
  3. 0:55:48 · watch on youtube.com↗

    by cutting your nap off at 20 minutes you still get these nice benefits from a good chunk of healthy non-rem sleep but you're not going so far into the cycle so deep into your nonr that when you wake up after 20 minutes you're not in that what we call Sleep inertia phase
  4. 6 min later
  5. 1:01:20 · watch on youtube.com↗

    if you are not a natural Napper don't necessarily Force yourself to be as long as you're getting the sleep that you feel you need at night and you feel refreshed and restored during the day
  6. 2 min later
  7. 1:03:11 · watch on youtube.com↗

    so mimic the conditions that you're trying to get that you would normally get at night that will increase the probability mask out noise mask out light kick your shoes off have some kind of a blanket wrapping around you that's probably the best
  8. 25 min later
  9. 1:28:04 · watch on youtube.com↗

    the best evidence that we have right now is that it's actually the bad quality of sleep at night and thus we should not be necessarily jumping to recommendations that all older adults should stop napping I think we need more evidence and I'm open to both sides of that
  10. 20 min later
  11. 1:48:23 · watch on youtube.com↗

    by using caffeine first thing in the morning you don't give yourself the chance to test whether or not subjectively you sense your sleep is good quality now you don't need to do this forever you can just do a test for a month and be asking that question
  12. 4 min later
  13. 1:52:13 · watch on youtube.com↗

    if you look at decaffeinated coffee you still get the antioxidants but now now you don't get the caffeine and lo and behold you get many of the same health benefits it's not the caffeine it's the coffee itself
  14. 1:52:38 · watch on youtube.com↗

    if you're not someone who's sensitive to caffeine then having a couple of cups of caffeine and trying to step away from the use of caffeine I would argue somewhere between 10 to 12 hours before you expect to go to bed depending on your sensitivity
  15. 2 min later
  16. 1:54:09 · watch on youtube.com↗

    some people can fall asleep and some people stay asleep but the amount of deep sleep that they have is compromised in fact it can drop your deep sleep by up to 20%
  17. 16 min later
  18. 2:10:28 · watch on youtube.com↗

    they found no supportive evidence that polyphasic sleep was helpful then they turned the tables and they said well could it be hurtful and in fact that's exactly what they found