Optimizing Sleep With Dr. Greg Potter, PhD

Biohacker’s Live Show features top experts in optimal human performance as if they were in your living room. Your host is Teemu Arina, the co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook and curator of the Biohacker Summit. Catch each episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes here. How to optimize a single day for better sleep? Greg’s PhD work at the University of Leeds on circadian biology, sleep, diet, and metabolic health was featured by the likes of the BBC World Service, the Washington Post, and Reuters. Greg has a BSc and an MSc in Exercise Physiology from Loughborough University, where he coached a sprinter to four gold medals at the European Championships. Greg has also worked with groups such as The United States Naval Special Warfare Command on health and performance optimisation. GREG POTTER (UK) PhD (chronobiology, sleep) | Chief Scientific Officer Greg Potter’s PhD work at the University of Leeds on sleep, diet, and metabolic health was featured by the likes of the BBC World Service, the Washington Post, and Reuters. Greg has a BSc and an MSc in Exercise Physiology from Loughborough University, where he coached a sprinter to four gold medals at the European Championships. Greg has …

A comprehensive analysis and optimization strategies for improving deep sleep

Introduction My quest for better sleep has been ongoing for the past 10 years. I used to sleep only 5.5 hours per night and the quality of sleep was poor. I was totally overworked and almost burned out after doing crazy hours in the ER and being literally on call for almost five years in a row. Working hours reached at its worst nearly 100 per week – average was easily over 60. So where did I cut the time for working out and socialization? You got it right, sleep. Since 2010 I have been trying out different medications, technologies, mattresses, pillows, beds, bedrooms and all kinds of herbs for achieving better sleep. But nothing can make it better if you have only limited time to spend in the bed. So that particular feature was the first step in optimizing sleep: simply spending more time in bed and changing my life the way it made sleeping more possible. For me it meant quitting the super hectic ER job and simply cutting back working hours. That was also the beginning for the journey on holistic health, integral medicine and biohacking. This article delves deep into the secrets of better deep sleep. …

Personalizing Sleep with Hannu Kinnunen

At the Biohacker Summit in Stockholm, Hannu Kinnunen, Chief Scientific Officer at Oura Health, explained how to know your chronotype from your own data and use it to optimize your life. Read this article and watch the presentation to learn more about using wearables to track and optimize your sleep.

Finding Your Chronotype & Optimal Bedtime With Hannu Kinnunen (Biohacker’s LIVE Show)

Biohacker’s Live Show features top experts in optimal human performance as if they were in your living room. Your host is Teemu Arina, the co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook and curator of the Biohacker Summit. Catch each episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes here. How to find your chronotype and optimal sleep time? How the Oura ring revolutionizes sleep tracking? How to find balance in your life? How to visualize your chronotype? Why evening persons perform better at cognitive tasks especially in the evening? Why our host needs to sleep more? Hannu Kinnunen is a wearable pioneer, inventor and Chief Science Officer of Oura. Hannu Kinnunen is the brains behind the science that makes Oura the most advanced wearable vital signs monitor in the world. With a long career at heart rate monitor maker Polar, Hannu was responsible for the physiological algorithms, many of which are still used in Polar products today. Hannu is credited in dozens of patents and scientific articles on the field of heart rate based signal processing, biosignal detection, and the analysis of activity, training, recovery and sleep. Watch the interview with Hannu Kinnunen: [powerpress] SIIM’S SPECIAL REPORT Watch also Siim Land’s special report …

Finding Your Chronotype & Optimal Bedtime With Hannu Kinnunen (Biohacker’s LIVE Show)

Biohacker’s Live Show features top experts in optimal human performance as if they were in your living room. Your host is Teemu Arina, the co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook and curator of the Biohacker Summit. Catch each episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes here. How to find your chronotype and optimal sleep time? How the Oura ring revolutionizes sleep tracking? How to find balance in your life? How to visualize your chronotype? Why evening persons perform better at cognitive tasks especially in the evening? Why our host needs to sleep more? Hannu Kinnunen is a wearable pioneer, inventor and Chief Science Officer of Oura. Hannu Kinnunen is the brains behind the science that makes Oura the most advanced wearable vital signs monitor in the world. With a long career at heart rate monitor maker Polar, Hannu was responsible for the physiological algorithms, many of which are still used in Polar products today. Hannu is credited in dozens of patents and scientific articles on the field of heart rate based signal processing, biosignal detection, and the analysis of activity, training, recovery and sleep. Watch the interview with Hannu Kinnunen: [powerpress] SIIM’S SPECIAL REPORT Watch also Siim Land’s special report …

Sleep, Diet & Metabolism With Greg Potter (Biohacker’s LIVE Show)

Biohacker’s Live Show features top experts in optimal human performance as if they were in your living room. Your host is Teemu Arina, the co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook and curator of the Biohacker Summit. Catch each episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes here. What are the top sleep hacks? How to influence circadian rythms and chronobiology? Why shoud you sleep with your socks on? What are the top sleep promoting supplements and herbs? How eating at night influences blood sugar levels? What is the role of fasting in promoting a good night sleep? All this and more in this episode of Biohacker’s LIVE Show. Greg Potter recently handed in his PhD at the University of Leeds where his research focused on sleep, diet, and metabolism. His work has been featured in Reuters, TIME magazine, The Washington Post, Fox News, USA Today, and many other major media outlets. In addition to his PhD, Greg also holds BSc and MSc degrees in exercise physiology from Loughborough University. Currently Greg serves as Content Director at Humanos.me which is an online platform designed to help people improve their health and performance. These are also values Greg lives by as his goal …

Biohacking Sleep With Dan Pardi (Biohacker’s LIVE Show)

Biohacker’s Live Show features top experts in optimal human performance as if they were in your living room. Your host is Teemu Arina, the co-author of the Biohacker’s Handbook and curator of the Biohacker Summit. Catch each episode by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes here. Dan Pardi is a sleep researcher and CEO. Dan’s life’s work centers on how to help people live healthfully. He is the CEO of humanOS which leverages a novel behavior model to promote health fluency, skill development, and lifestyle insights to help people master their health practice. Dan does research with the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department at Stanford, and the Departments of Neurology and Endocrinology at Leiden University in the Netherlands where he investigates how lifestyle factors, like sleep, influence decision making, cognitive performance, and metabolism. Dan also works with Naval Special Warfare to help the most elite fighters in the world maintain alertness and capable mental performance under challenging circumstances. He currently serves as Board Member for StandUpKids.org, as a Council Director for the True Health Initiative, and Advisor to several health-oriented companies (Ample Meals, Fitstar, Splendid Spoon, Validic), an Editor for the Journal of Evolution and Health. He also runs the …

Lullaby and Quantify Your Sleep

The old saying is true: Sleep fixes most things. Yet in a world where there are more things to do than time to do them, it is becoming increasingly easy to sleep less than our bodies need for healthy functioning. Scientists may continue to debate and discover what sleep or the lack of it does for as long as our planet exists, but one thing they all agree on, is the damaging effect of too little sleep on the brain’s ability to function. We know the drill: eat right, sleep right, play right, love right = a happy healthy life! However, many of us continue to float through life neither fully awake or asleep. You see, it’s not just enough to sleep. Because of the overcharged, fast-paced, intensely stimulated environment of our modern society, it can be surprising to learn that even when we do lie in bed for 8 hours, many of us are not getting the recovery our bodies need for a variety of complex reasons. Most of us don’t think twice before spending the hours and minutes before we go to bed finishing work emails or texting those far and dear, reading ebooks or browsing Facebook. Yet these …