3 Sleep Habits That Are Destroying Your Metabolic Health (And How to Fix Them)
00:00:00.000 | There's three key things about sleep
00:00:01.540 | that relate to metabolic health.
00:00:02.820 | It's that we want to get good quantity of sleep,
00:00:05.420 | good quality of sleep, and good consistency of sleep.
00:00:08.100 | All three of those factors independently
00:00:11.240 | are related to our metabolic health.
00:00:13.220 | Some people may not be feeling their best
00:00:14.980 | or doing great with their metabolic health,
00:00:16.960 | and they're like,
00:00:17.800 | "But I get seven or eight hours of sleep a night,"
00:00:19.920 | so we need to dial in some of the other factors too.
00:00:22.520 | So when I talk about sleep quantity,
00:00:24.840 | the sweet spot for metabolic health
00:00:26.800 | seems to be about seven to eight hours of good quality sleep
00:00:30.480 | per night.
00:00:31.320 | It's variable for different people.
00:00:32.680 | This is why wearables like Oura rings are great.
00:00:35.160 | For quality, this is about uninterrupted sleep.
00:00:38.640 | So we know that people who have more interruptions
00:00:40.320 | in their sleep have a much higher risk
00:00:41.600 | for metabolic disease.
00:00:42.520 | So this is like anything that's a distraction
00:00:44.680 | or interruption in the room or light in the room
00:00:47.840 | can impair quality of sleep,
00:00:49.160 | and that impacts metabolic health.
00:00:50.380 | If there's interruptions, that happens,
00:00:52.380 | but we can do the best we can.
00:00:53.440 | And then for consistency,
00:00:54.320 | we're talking about basically going to bed
00:00:56.000 | at a regular time and getting up at a regular time.