Tips to Sleep Deeper & Longer (Fixing the Root Cause)

Sleep is the undisputed foundation of performance. Every 1% improvement compounds throughout our lifetime. By addressing the root cause of sleep issues, all the fancy sleep biohacks become more powerful (and even unnecessary.)

📕  Video chapters
0:00 Introduction
01:39 Devin's non-negotiables for health, performance, & bioharmony
04:03 Devin's fasting journey
05:50 Striking a balance between short-term vs long-term fasting
06:52 Benefits of the bone broth fast
08:17 Benefits of sleep
09:58 Hormones that get affected by sleep deficiency
10:42 Ghrelin, Leptin and Cortisol
11:55 Barriers to a good night's sleep
14:19 What is sleep procrastination?
15:23 Sleep hygiene isn't enough for insomnia
16:03 Beliefs and myths about sleep
17:53 Sleep is something you have to allow
18:00 What to do when you can't sleep
21:14 There's a distinction between being tired and being sleepy
21:24 Stimulus control in sleeping
23:09 The relationship between physical touch and sleep
25:30 Patients who experience regular physical touch require less medication
26:02 Touch starvation kills babies
27:21 Physiological aspects that affect sleep
29:01 The psychology of sleep
30:20 The stress triangle
33:45 The effect of language on sleep
38:06 How is this different than CBTI?
39:21 Sleep tracking and measuring devices
42:16 The 3 Ps of sleep mindset
44:15 Quantitative vs qualitative sleep
45:25 What happens during paradoxical sleep?
48:03 What to do when you can't sleep well
51:03 Tools we can use to improve sleep
56:15 Sleep tips & tools rapid fire

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📝 About our guest
Devin Burke helps high achievers and exhausted insomniacs get and stay asleep so they can wake up with more peace, power, and presence. He is an author, speaker, sleep coach, and founder of Sleep Science Academy which helps people stop suffering and start sleeping using a unique holistic approach based on science. He was named one of the “Top 25 Health Coaches in America,” and has studied innovative holistic coaching methods from some of the world’s top health and human performance experts for over a decade.

🔑 Key takeaways
- Our self-stories constantly reinforce either our problems or our superpowers
- The 5 key psychological roadblocks to optimal sleep
- How to sleep tech & supplements fit into the routine
- Focus on psychology → physiology →
environment

🔗 Links
- Full episode show notes: https://mindbodypeak.com/100
- Music by Luke Hall: soundcloud.com/c_luke_hall

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