The Podcast
Conversations with the people doing the research.
Since 2012 I've read a lot of sleep and health research, and spent most of that time wishing I could ask the authors what they actually meant. Now I ask them. Vital Pieces is a video interview show with researchers and clinicians. Twenty to thirty minutes. One topic per episode. No product talk, no supplement pitch, no shortcuts sold. A new episode every week.
Episode 02
Dr. Amy Bender. Athlete sleep researcher.
What sleep actually does for athletic recovery, what the tracking data does and doesn't show, and why banking sleep before a hard stretch beats repairing the damage afterwards.
Episode 01
Dr. Mariana Figueiro. Light and Health Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
What melatonin actually does in the body, how light sets the human clock, and why the brightness you get in the morning matters more than most people think.
Every new episode comes with a short email. The conversation, the part that stayed with me, and what I'm doing differently because of it. One a week.
If you research or treat something in human health and want to talk about it for half an hour, get in touch.
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