One of the most common ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ is to get fit. Depending on the person, this can mean losing weight, gaining muscle or just being active. The podcast Barbell Shrugged, hosted by Mike Bledsoe and Doug Larson, is updated weekly with new content related to weightlifting and training. The topics vary greatly, ranging from How to Fix Your Lower Back to The Pros and Cons of Scaling Workouts. For each week’s topic, the hosts bring a special guest with an expertise in the area to be discussed. For the episode The Importance of Sleep for Performance, Bledsoe and Larson brought in Doctor Kirk Parsley, the former Naval Special Warfare’s expert of Sleep Medicine, inventor of Sleep Remedy and worldwide lecturer on ‘sleep, wellness and hormonal
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That would be similar to a 1980 Honda Civic being the exact same as it is today. So, travelers must make arrangements to prepare themselves.” Kirk’s point here is expanded on when he talks about how technology has advanced much faster than the human body. For example, our current body form did not evolve in a society where we could travel across 12 time zones in one day. This is why travelers feel jet lagged, what happens when their internal body clock is off balance, for at least a day after modern day traveling across just one time zone. When the current form of the body was developed, however, the time it would take to walk across a time zone would give the internal clock time to adjust. Humans have no built in mechanisms to combat modern day travel fatigue, so extra precautions and tactics should be followed to keep humans at top efficiency. All humans feel effects similar to jet lag twice a year, and the precautions needed for modern day travel are similar to those that can be taken during a Daylight Savings change. Going to bed a little earlier or later, depending on which way you are traveling, and light therapy, exposing yourself to light to wake your internal clock up, are a few things more and more people like …show more content…
After listening to Doctor Kirk Parsley’s expertise on the three-way connection between hormones, sleep and human productivity, it is much easier to fathom the reasons behind advancing sleep aids and why people focus so much effort on their sleep in order to reach their goals. When people sleep sufficiently, they’re hormones balance out to the right levels, allowing them to be the most efficient, productive person they can be the next
That would be similar to a 1980 Honda Civic being the exact same as it is today. So, travelers must make arrangements to prepare themselves.” Kirk’s point here is expanded on when he talks about how technology has advanced much faster than the human body. For example, our current body form did not evolve in a society where we could travel across 12 time zones in one day. This is why travelers feel jet lagged, what happens when their internal body clock is off balance, for at least a day after modern day traveling across just one time zone. When the current form of the body was developed, however, the time it would take to walk across a time zone would give the internal clock time to adjust. Humans have no built in mechanisms to combat modern day travel fatigue, so extra precautions and tactics should be followed to keep humans at top efficiency. All humans feel effects similar to jet lag twice a year, and the precautions needed for modern day travel are similar to those that can be taken during a Daylight Savings change. Going to bed a little earlier or later, depending on which way you are traveling, and light therapy, exposing yourself to light to wake your internal clock up, are a few things more and more people like …show more content…
After listening to Doctor Kirk Parsley’s expertise on the three-way connection between hormones, sleep and human productivity, it is much easier to fathom the reasons behind advancing sleep aids and why people focus so much effort on their sleep in order to reach their goals. When people sleep sufficiently, they’re hormones balance out to the right levels, allowing them to be the most efficient, productive person they can be the next