A YouTube conversation between an unidentified speaker and Robert Whitfield MD about the health benefits of maintaining calm (rest, cell repair, toxin removal) and the importance of consistent habits/rituals for improving sleep and overall health. The speakers emphasize being calm >80% of the time, and Dr. Whitfield discusses using wearables to track sleep (Whoop since 2016, various rings, Garmin) and personal chronotype experiences.
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Ironically, when you're calm, you're more focused, you get more done, your body is healthier, it gets rest, it repairs cells, it takes out toxins. We have to be in that state, and we're supposed to be in that state more than 80% of the time, and unfortunately we're not. I truly, truly believe this is why we have so much disease development, because the body is adapting to being in a fight or flight, rather being able to do the job that it was intended to do.
So what I've told the audience is the simplest things I can tell you with certainly are. If you get consistent, whether you say it's a habit change or ritual, whatever you want to call it, I don't care. You have to do certain things. And we know that if you adjust and make these small, small changes, cumulatively over time, you can, you can have a bigger impact and change. So for instance, you know how I am about like wearable stuff for everybody listening. I've, I've worn so many wearables to track sleep, it's, it's a little ridiculous. So I've had a Whoop Strap since 2016. I've had an ultra aura rings which I don't like. I've got an ultra human ring now which is very consistent. I've had the craziest Garmin watch available that supposedly you can track your sleep. And all I can tell you is Just like Dr. Pingle said, you have to pick a time and be consistent. If your chronotype like in the book why We Sleep is a certain way. And I'm not going to give you the chronotypes. Like my body will get me up every day between 4:30 and 5:30, regardless of when I go to bed. So I don't go to bed between 9 and 10 or sometimes like yesterday.