Your Bedroom Is a Weapon: Navy SEAL Rob Sweetman on the Science of Sleep
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In this episode, Navy SEAL Rob Sweetman discusses the importance of sleep and how to optimize your bedroom for better recovery.
Stop pretending you're fine on 5 hours of sleep. You're not. On this episode of Men Talking Mindfulness, hosts Jon Macaskill and Will Schneider bring back Robert Sweetman, former Navy SEAL, sleep scientist, and founder of Sleep Genius, to talk about what actually makes the difference between garbage sleep and real recovery. Rob's approach starts with a concept he calls the sleep dojo. The same way you'd treat a martial arts dojo with respect, structure, and intention, that's how your bedroom should work. Take the fights out of it. Take the scrolling out of it. Take the laptop, the TV, and the phone out of it. And then start paying attention to the physical environment: light, sound, and temperature. Rob walks Jon and Will through the neuroscience of why blue light kills melatonin production, why a 35-decibel noise spike can wreck your sleep cycle without waking you up, why 65 to 69 degrees is the sweet spot for your bedroom, and why eating close to bedtime leads to visceral fat because melatonin blocks insulin. He also drops the truth about THC and sleep... it kills your REM. Will was doing sober October and says his REM numbers have already gone up. Jon talks about going through…
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