Ep. 48 - How did you sleep last night? Time to talk about it with Dr. Amy Bender

Chasing Tomorrow Podcast

English - May 21, 2021 22:54 - 1 hour - 55.6 MB
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Dave Proctor and Joe Gagnon Chasing Tomorrow podcast show hosts talk to Dr. Amy Bender who is the Director of Clinical Sleep Science at

Cerebra Medical and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. Dr. Bender discusses how sleep can positively

affect exercise and improve mental health. In the discussion, Dr. Bender reminds us that sleep is foundational to healthy living and physical

performance and the more we focus on optimizing our sleep the better life is.

Dr. Bender gives some very practical ways of thinking about how to get better sleep and an understanding of the cycles of sleep and what is going on when we sleep.