Bryan Johnson shares what tanks his sleep: heavy carbs like bread or pasta, eating too close to bedtime, and skipping his one-hour wind-down. New therapies at his Blueprint program can temporarily wreck his heart-rate variability and sleep quality.
Even just your sleep consistency is remarkably high for an entrepreneur. And if you think about variables you've tried that haven't really made a difference or things that you you kind of sense, you know, I'm not going to have quite as good of a sleep. What comes to mind?
I'll tell you a few things that cause negative results in sleep. If I eat certain foods like heavy carbohydrates, I never do. But when I have in the past, like any breads or pastas, that will result in decreased performance. If I eat too closely to time, that will as well. If I don't have a one hour or so wind down period to get my brain in some kind of stabilized state where it's out of the loops of the dailies, activities that will also be negative. But when I when I try new therapies, I'm always doing something new at Blueprint and sometimes the first or second time I do a therapy it will have disruption in my HRV and sleep. And so yeah, there are a few things I watch out for and I try to control for as many as I can.
