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Episode Description

You might be sleeping the right number of hours and still waking up exhausted. The problem isn't how much you sleep. It's when.

Dr. Michael Breus is a clinical psychologist, board certified sleep specialist, and the world's leading authority on chronotypes — your genetic sleep schedule that governs not just when you sleep, but when you should eat, exercise, have sex, drink coffee, ask your boss for a raise, and do your best creative work. Over 3.5 million people have taken his chronotype quiz. The results have changed lives, saved jobs, and transformed relationships. This is his second time on Heal Thy Self and Dr. G says it was worth the wait.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why the 5am club and mouth taping are two of the worst ideas in sleep, and what the research actually says about both

• The thermoregulation secret behind why you wake up at 3am, why you sweat in bed, and the frozen water bottle hack that works better than most expensive sleep gadgets

• Why dreams are emotional metabolism, how recurrent nightmares are linked to a 100% increase in suicidality, and the daytime therapy Dr. Breus is developing to help veterans process trauma through their dreams

Take the chronotype quiz and find out if you're a lion, bear, wolf, or dolphin before you listen.

Find Dr. Breus:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesleepdoctor/

Website: https://www.thesleepdoctor.com

Chronotype Quiz: https://www.chronoquiz.com

Book: Sleep. Drink. Breathe. Wellness is Too Complicated — https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Drink-Breathe-Profound-Long-Term/dp/0316576417

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

3:18 - Why mouth taping is dangerous and has caused deaths

5:37 - What a chronotype actually is and why it is a cheat code for life

9:38 - The patient on the verge of being fired who changed everything

18:15 - Why entrepreneurs wake up at 2am and what to do about it