The Surprising Truth About Sleep | Professor Michael Gradisar

Quality sleep is the top of the waterfall from which all of our health flows. Better sleep equals better everything else, and whether you've got waking woes, or you're happy with how you're laying your head, there's simple things we can all do to make tonight's sleep the best yet.  My New Years resolution for 2024 was to improve my sleep performance. I use wearable a sleep tracker, a consistent early bed time, blue light blocking glasses, ear plugs, the works and I still have a hard time getting a true eight hours.  Fortunately for me and you, today's guest on the Young Blood Experts Series is internationally renowned sleep expert, Professor Michael Gradisar.  Michael worked for twenty years as a clinical psychologist, directing Adelaide's Child and Adolescent Sleep. These days he helps people treat insomnia and adjust their circadian rhythms online and is the Head of Sleep Science at 'Sleep Cycle'; a one-stop solution sleep tracker with 50 million users worldwide. This episode features good news for gamers, why playing Call of Duty before bed isn’t as bad for sleep as you might’ve thought... Find out how much shut eye you really need, the difference it makes if you’re not getting enough, is mouth tape all hype? and are you a good judge of your own sleep quality? Listen all the way through this one to find out all that and more with our sleep guru, Professor Michael Gradisar. ------------- Young Blood - Men's Mental Health is a volunteer community service. If you enjoyed this podcast, the BEST thing you can do to support the show and help me keep it going, is to rate/review on Apple Podcasts: ⁠Young Blood - Men’s Mental Health on Apple Podcasts⁠ and Spotify: ⁠Young Blood - Men’s Mental Health | Podcast on Spotify⁠ And if you haven't already, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE here and on YouTube! Cheers! - Cal