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How Caffeine and Exercise Affect Deep Sleep
45:45 - 53:47 (08:01)
This podcast discusses how caffeine disrupts deep sleep and how aerobic exercise may be more effective at enhancing deep sleep compared to resistance training. Anxiety and other roadblocks to deep sleep are also discussed.
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Caffeine and anxiety disrupt deep sleep, which can have negative effects on mental health.
45:45 - 49:31 (03:46)
Summary
Caffeine and anxiety disrupt deep sleep, which can have negative effects on mental health. To increase deep sleep, one should avoid behaviors that disrupt sleep and focus on behaviors that facilitate it.
ChapterHow Caffeine and Exercise Affect Deep Sleep
Episode#650: Dr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep — How to Improve Sleep, How Sleep Ties Into Alzheimer’s Disease and Weight Gain, and How Medications (Ambien, Trazodone, etc.), Caffeine, THC/CBD, Psychedelics, Exercise, Smart Drugs, Fasting, and More Affect Sleep
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Pushing the blood out to the hands, feet, and face can help emit heat from the body core leading to a drop in core body temperature leading to better sleep.
49:31 - 52:29 (02:57)
Summary
Pushing the blood out to the hands, feet, and face can help emit heat from the body core leading to a drop in core body temperature leading to better sleep. Cardio based forms of exercise may get you greater bang for your buck in terms of deep sleep enhancement.
ChapterHow Caffeine and Exercise Affect Deep Sleep
Episode#650: Dr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep — How to Improve Sleep, How Sleep Ties Into Alzheimer’s Disease and Weight Gain, and How Medications (Ambien, Trazodone, etc.), Caffeine, THC/CBD, Psychedelics, Exercise, Smart Drugs, Fasting, and More Affect Sleep
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Exercise enhances deep sleep, and despite some fine-grained analyses regarding the ideal timing and type of exercise, the overall message is that exercise always wins out over inactivity in terms of generating more powerful deep sleep.
52:29 - 53:47 (01:18)
Summary
Exercise enhances deep sleep, and despite some fine-grained analyses regarding the ideal timing and type of exercise, the overall message is that exercise always wins out over inactivity in terms of generating more powerful deep sleep.