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May 24, 2021
Improving your sleep is free; it’s completely modifiable, within your control, and you can learn how to use it as a performance enhancing tool.
Dr. Shane Creado is a double board-certified sleep doctor and sports and integrative psychiatrist. He works not only on the treatment of sleep disorders, but also on perfecting and optimizing sleep, thereby boosting sports performance and workplace productivity. He is on the board for the International Society for Sports Psychiatry, and works with the USOPC (US Olympic and Paralympic Committee), NBA Players Association, PGA tour Europe and Amen Clinics. In addition to working with individual patients, he consults with sports teams to design team-specific and athlete-specific sleep guidelines and strategies off-season, in-season and pre-season, to boost performance.
He provides ‘Sleep Retreats’ to organizations/companies, which involve education on sleep and performance, screening for sleep disorders, and specific strategies to improve sleep and performance.He is the author of Peak Sleep Performance: The Cutting-Edge Sleep Science That Will Guarantee A Competitive Advantage, which debuted #1 in Sports Medicine on Amazon in March 2020. This book equips the reader with the sleep strategies of the greatest athletes in the world, so that you can boost your brain health and performance in all aspects of life. He is also a contributing author to 5 principal books in Sports Psychiatry.
In the US, sleep loss is a major contributing factor to all sorts of ailments, including being directly related to the top five causes of mortality.
Matthew Walker at UC Berkeley found that people with even one night of sleep loss have the learning centers in their temporal lobe drop by 40%.
Trust yourself over anything else, including fitness trackers.
Now, set a fixed wake up time.
Have a calming routine.
Sleep is a recovery tool, a recharging tool.