Sleep is the unsung backbone of long-term health and performance. Get it right, and everything becomes easier. Sleep quantity is possibly the less important half. In this sleep masterclass, you’ll learn from our guest’s expensive mistakes and what works great.
Episode Highlights
The 7 major sleep disruptors
Sleep is one of the highest leverage activities to prioritize
Which is better, side sleeping or back sleeping
Tweak to effortlessly improve brain detox while sleeping
Do wearables & sleep trackers actually have value?
55 prototypes and iterations led to these core ingredients in Sleep Breakthrough
How to get 50-300% better results from your supplements
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About Matt Gallant
Matt Gallant is the CEO and Co-Founder of BiOptimizers and has a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology. He’s been a strength and conditioning coach for multiple pro-athletes, a self-defense instructor, and has over 15 years of experience formulating supplements. He's also a serial entrepreneur that's built over 13 profitable companies.
Top things you’ll learn from Matt Gallant
- Spent $45K on sleep
- Daily habits
- NectarX
- Lifestyle is foundation
- Matt's rock bottom
- 7 major sleep disruptors
- Background
- Health, performance, aesthetics
- Dr Walkers influence on sleep
- “I'll sleep when I am dead”
- Power Sleep by James Moss
- Sleeping 10+ hours is also associated with poor health
- The healthier you become, the less sleep you need
- Must be in pitch black bedroom
- Temperature (room & sheets) is another major factor
- OOLER or Eight Sleep products
- Best sleep position is on back
- Side sleeping vs back sleeping vs front sleeping
- Side sleeping benefits and drawbacks
- Critical that entire body is in a straights line
- Raising head of bed
- Glymphatic drainage
- Basic sleep architecture
- 2 factors that destroy sleep more than anything
- Ayurveda's take on circadian science & bedtime “second wind”
- Importance of having a target bed time
- Why Matt likes self quant devices despite their inaccuracy in sleep stage tracking
- Directionally accurate
- Nervous system health leads to quality of life
- The dark side of Oura ring
- Dream Optimizer & how BiOptimizers makes products
- Internal research showing increased magnesium bioavailability by combining forms of mag
- 55 prototypes of sleep breakthrough
- Melatonin and genes
- DARPA tried to increase amplitude of delta waves and dramatically improved learning
- PEMF didnt work for him
- 3 main focuses of sleep optimization
- Insomniacs about 30% deficient in GABA
- Why Sleep Breakthrough uses pharmaGABA
- Insomniacs also have hyperactive beta brainwaves
- Benefits of neurofeedback
- 2 molecules to shift out of beta brain waves dominance
- Unprocessed trauma can surface when you get more REM
- Book: The Body Keeps The Score
- 300-500 micro-traumas even in very healthy childhoods
- What makes pharmaGABA different
- P3OM is great for GABA production which peaks about 8 hours later
- Tryptophan
- Biopathways > Molecules > Cofactors
- “Cofactors can improve results 50-300%”
- “Dose creates the effect”
- Peptides or other molecules?
- Epitalon helped reset timers and improved sleep
- Glycine + taurine
- Glycine
- Cool glycine benefits for sleep
- P5P bioactive form of vitamin B6 and cofactor of magnesium that helps convert into serotonin
- Cyclical keto for 30 years
- Sleep minerals
- “People tend to overprioritize vitamins and underprize minerals”
- Potassium
- “Sodium excited neurons, potassium quiets them down”
- How potassium improves sleep
- 08 Other ingredients in sleep breakthrough
- 25 Bamboo extract
- 08 The new science of melatonin
- 11 When to use melatonin
- 12 Brain optimization & maximization with neurofeedback
- 28 Did TRT for 6 years
- 51 Natural testosterone optimization product coming
- 04 Priotizing focus to optimize sleep
- 18 SPOKE: Light, temperature, sleep molecules
- 52 Ultimate sleep & recovery BiOptimizers system
- 40 Combining quantative and qualitative sleep metrics
- 08 Neurofeedback and sleep
- 06 Sens.ai device
- 47 Connect
- 02 Dream Optimizer is a Nootopia product
- 21 Great for travel and real user testimonials
- 57 Nootopia & BiOptimizers code URBAN saves 10%
- 29 Dr David Hawkins
- 56 Book: The Body Keeps The Score
- 18 BiOptimizers upcoming nutrition book
- 34 CollaGenius
- 56 Matt Galant is a musician
- 09 Final thoughts
- 01 35 products in the BiOptimizers pipeline
- 25 New adaptogenic formula coming
Resources mentioned
- Book: The Body Keeps The Score
- Gear: Oura ring
- Supplement: BiOptimizers Sleep Breakthrough
- Supplement: CollaGenius
Connect with Matt Gallant
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