A Hidden Sleep Killer That Flies Under The Radar

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Hey you guys, it's Ben Greenfield and I just got done interviewing a sleep doctor about how his sleep medical facility actually measures how your deep sleep and your light sleep cycles are going. And we talked about a bunch of the hidden causes of adrenal fatigue, tiredness and poor sleep. I learned a lot of things that I didn't know about sleep. Not only how much time you should be spending in a deep sleep versus a light sleep cycle, but also the things that fly under the radar when it comes to actually disrupting sleep, particularly something called obstructive sleep apnea, which I always thought just obese or overweight people got, but that it turns out a lot of lean, seemingly healthy people get too. We talked about how you can use something called a pulse oximeter to test for that, and also how you can get insurance to cover a full on sleep evaluation that dives way more deeply into your sleep data than something like a wearable or an under the mattress sleep tracking device ever could. And we also talk about the accuracy or lack thereof of some of those devices and how you can properly use them. We talked about blood and biomarkers and how you can look at those to get a look at some of the things in your blood that may reflect potential disruptors to your actual sleep cycles. And we also talk about some of Dr. Zulk's personal sleep habits and pre bed routines that he as a sleep doctor uses. We talked about some of the scary research behind lack of sleep and much more. So I think you're really going to enjoy this one if you like to sleep, which I know I do, as you can tell from my bedhead today. So you can go over to BenGreenfieldFitness.com sleep doctor to access the show notes and the audio for this episode. So again, that's BenGreenfieldFitness.com SleepDoctor if you enjoy this episode. Also go to itunes. Leave us a review. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast all that good stuff just because that's good karma, right? All right, so BenGreefulFitness.com SleepDoctor check it out. Enjoy this episode. Have a healthy week.