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30 Minutes of This Feels Like 8 Hours of Sleep
@hubermanlab
(00:00) NSDR stands for Non-sleep Deep Rest
(00:53) A similar practice, Yoga Nidra involves lying down, completely still, and doing some slow breathing to decrease your heart rate while trying not to fall asleep. It's long been used as a way to replenish mental & physical vigor.
(01:41) In ~2015, Dr. Huberman tried Yoga Nidra and found it to be incredibly restorative
(02:47) NSDR is similar to Yoga Nidra. It involves lying down for 10-30 minutes, doing long exhale breathing, trying to stay awake.
(03:43) Study: The 60-minute Yoga Nidra protocol that increases striatal dopamine 60%, as revealed by PET imaging studies
(04:40) Some studies show post-Yoga Nidra performance on memory & other cognitive tasks is improved
(04:49) It's possible certain pockets of the brain undergo sleep-like states during NSDR
(06:00) People who have trouble falling asleep often benefit from doing NSDR at any time of day — it teaches you to self-direct your own relaxation
(06:45) Yoga Nidra/NSDR moves you from a state of thinking and doing to being and feeling
(07:39) Dr. Huberman often does a 30-minute NSDR session in the morning — "I come out of that [...] and I personally just feel as if I've slept 8 hours"
(09:55) "I find NSDR to be among the most potent and important tools or protocols that I've used in my own life. I've continued to do it about once a day, any time of day or night, sometimes based on need to get more sleep, sometimes just as a practice. And even 10 minutes of NSDR, for me, I emerge from that feeling being completely different and always better."
(10:16) This is what happened when Rhonda tried NSDR after a night of poor sleep
(11:38) Possible creativity & trauma therapy benefits of NSDR and other body still/mind active states
Smokers with a high omega-3 index have the same life expectancy as non-smokers with a low omega-3 index
In other words...
Not getting enough omega-3s is as bad as smoking when it comes to life expectancy
One prospective cohort study involving ~14,000 men & women ages 30-69 found the following:
Sauna bathing 9-12x/month was associated with a 20% reduced risk of dementia compared to people who used the sauna <4x/month
Chronic inflammation plays a big role in neurodegenerative disease
But here's something interesting...
Sauna use is inversely associated with C-reactive protein levels (a biomarker of inflammation)
Basically, more frequent sauna use = lower C-reactive protein levels
Sauna bathing 4-7x/week reduces dementia and Alzheimer's disease risk by ~60% compared to people who use it once per week
2-3x/week? ~20% reduction in risk
Sauna bathing mimics moderate aerobic exercise
Commonalities:
• Sweating
• Increased heart rate
• Increased core body temperature
Also, after exercising or using the sauna, both blood pressure & resting heart rate are lower than before the session