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Why Insufficient Sleep is Harming Your Cognitive Performance with Dr. Greg Potter

Why Insufficient Sleep is Harming Your Cognitive Performance with Dr. Greg Potter

Update: 2024-01-31
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On this week's episode of the Your Jeevn podcast, we are joined by Dr. Greg Potter, a renowned sleep expert with a PhD focused on sleep, circadian rhythms, nutrition, and metabolism. 

Greg's coaching expertise spans diverse individuals, from those managing complex chronic health conditions to high-performing executives and world record-breaking athletes. His methods are backed by substantial academic research, offering evidence-based advice.

Greg is dedicated to helping people feel great and making a positive impact. In today's challenging world, many of us strive to look better, perform at our best, and find happiness and wellness. Yet, modern life often clashes with our body's needs - demanding work, fast food, sedentary habits, and isolation. Greg empowers by guiding simple, sustainable lifestyle changes, adding both years to lives and life to years.

In this episode, we dive into:
- Common sleep problems including lifestyle-driven insufficient sleep, snoring, insomnia, sleep apnea, and circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders
- How insufficient sleep harms cognitive performance, including attention, working memory, and decision-making
- Unravelling insomnia symptoms through the 3P model
- Approaches for reconditioning sleep associations and establishing an effective bedtime routines

What you’ll take out of it:
- Recognise the critical dimensions of sleep health including the significance of duration, quality, and timing for overall well-being
- Analysis of sleep-related products such as blue light blocking glasses, weighted blankets, magnesium supplements, binaural beats, and white noise
- The secrets to quality sleep with these health essentials
- The pros and cons of interpreting sleep data from smart wearables devices 
 
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- LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregpotterphd/?originalSubdomain=uk)

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Why Insufficient Sleep is Harming Your Cognitive Performance with Dr. Greg Potter

Why Insufficient Sleep is Harming Your Cognitive Performance with Dr. Greg Potter

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