Sleep Well With These Gadgets: What Worked for Me 💤
In the video “Sleep Well With These Gadgets: What Worked for Me,” the host embarks on a three-week experiment to optimize their sleep routine for the best night’s sleep ever. From using face massaging goggles to a sleep-promoting sauna, and even undergoing a polysomnography sleep test at Stanford’s Sleep Clinic, the host explores various gadgets and techniques to improve their sleep quality. The advice from Dr. Raphael Paleo, a sleep medicine expert, focuses on the importance of understanding the root cause of sleep issues and implementing actionable changes in sleep habits.
Throughout the experiment, the host tries different gadgets such as a weighted blanket, body pillow, Hatch Restore 2, TheraBody smart goggles, infrared sauna, and Eight Sleep Pod 3. Despite experimenting with expensive sleep tech, the host discovers surprising results from the sleep test, revealing sleep apnea and leg movement issues affecting their sleep quality. The video highlights the importance of consulting a healthcare provider for sleep concerns and emphasizes that sleep trackers can provide helpful insights but may not diagnose underlying sleep disorders. Overall, the host hopes their experience with sleep gadgets and insights from experts can help viewers improve their sleep habits for a restful night’s sleep.
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I want to help you get the best night’s sleep you’ve ever had so I’m trying to optimize my  routine to get the best night’s sleep I’ve ever had over 3 weeks I’m going to be trying some  wild Gadgets in the ultimate experiment to see if I can improve my sleep everything from $200 Â
Face massaging goggles to a nearly $3,000 sleep promoting sauna and I’m doing a polysomnography or  sleep test to check for Sleep Disorders this looks intense I’ve come to the world’s very first Sleep  Clinic at Stanford to meet Dr. Raphael Paleo, a clinical professor and all around expert in sleep Â
Medicine I’m hoping he can give me some answers to why so many of us feel like we get bad sleep  and what we can do to improve it you want to get somebody to sleep better you got to focus on what Â
The actual issue is if turns out that only the amount of hours is the issue and then you find  out what’s happening in the lifestyle that’s interfering with that and you may incorporate  an appp into their schedule perhaps if you could do that or if you have an issue with the quality Â
Of your sleep then you got to do a sleep test and see what’s going on so we got to just tease it  out okay if we could distill all of this sleep advice into something that’s really actionable Â
That somebody like me can actually Implement I think you want to focus on waking up not falling  asleep okay cuz you can force yourself to wake up easier than can force yourself to fall asleep Â
Figure out what time you want to wake up lock in the wakeup time first instead of saying I wake up  depending on when I fell asleep then you have variable wakeup times and that throws off the  Cadian rhythms you’re going to end up spending less time in bed by sleeping more efficiently Â
Now I’ve been tracking my sleep for for years with watches and other wearables and they’ve  always said I’m getting a decent amount of sleep and it’s pretty good quality but I still wake up  tired you just have marks on your forehead I know I look silly thanks Andy no you look you Â
Look scienic scientific this is what it takes to get hooked up to a sleep study electrodes  are placed around my face and head to detect eye movement muscle tone and brain waves I also have  an electrocardiogram on my chest to track a heart rate a pulse oximeter on my finger for Â
Blood oxygen and two movement sensors take to my legs how you feeling like sleep very vulnerable  right now this is going to be really fascinating to see what you find out I am actually kind of Â
Strangely concerned that I now am going to have a sleep she so I’m going to start plugging things in  and then all I have left are the flow sensors and those are going to go in your nose okay in my nose Â
In your nose perfectly normal day at the office right now that’s weird that sensation is not fun  this is a little more invasive and this goes in the nose a little bit I don’t I don’t like that  everything else has been fine and this one feels like I’ve got two little fingernails digging Â
Into my nostril and now it’s time for bed if you want to see the results from my sleep test stick  around until the end of the video because let’s just say it was surprising well that Cliffhanger sucks okay it’s time to get my sleep habits in order Implement that advice from Dr poo Â
And bring in some sleep tech for good measure so I’m going to lock in my wakeup time each day yes  even on weekends and see how I go I’m also going to track my sleep throughout this challenge with Â
The aura ring gen 3 I chose it for a couple of reasons one because it’s comfortable to sleep  with and two it gives me a sleep score which is a way to compare any progress I might make week Â
By week night number one of the sleep challenge this week is all about setting the foundation for  good sleep hygiene and this routine won’t cost you any money but because I want to include some  inexpensive tools into this new routine I I’m also trying two no Tech sleep aids I’ve heard Â
People swear by a weighted blanket and a body pillow from twiller you can add or remove these  pods to change the padding to where you need it the most one morning I came into my room and I Â
Found my dog lying on it so you know it’s comfy I just wish that the body pillow didn’t take up  the entire bed but it definitely did help me get more comfortable during the night okay end of week Â
One time to do the check-in see how I’m feeling and what my sleep score is and the average over  7 nights is 79 not too bad I feel like it kind of represents how I’m feeling some days I felt super Â
Alert when I got up and other days I honestly just felt like a truck had hit me and I just  didn’t want to get out of bed welcome to week number two of trying to improve my sleep this Â
Time I’m adding on with the hatch restore 2 and the theab body smart goggles and I’m also going  to do a bit of guided meditation thanks to Chris Hemsworth’s power sleep in the center app yeah  who doesn’t want Thor reading them a bedtime story The Hatch for store 2 is like a little Â
Sun on your bedside table and yes Tik Tok made me try it it simulates sunset and sunrise and  it has sounds to lull you into Serenity wake you up gently or both if you like I do like Â
How it subtly reminds me it’s bedtime when I walk into my room and I see that gentle glow  and I’ve heard a lot about the theab body smart goles so of course I had to try them  the idea of a massaging mask with heat sounds great right there’s even a sleep mode that’s Â
Supposed to put you into a peaceful state of mind and lower your heart rate that’s pretty [Applause] nice it’s Monday morning I actually woke up feeling kind of good this  morning super alert and I didn’t feel like I needed to kind of kickart my Â
Day with caffeine then of course this week it all came crashing down it’s 10:30 babe it’s time to sleep I feel terrible let’s just say I had a rough couple of nights fortunately because I Â
Was still sticking to my new wake up schedule and my body was kind of doing it for Me by waking up  automatically without an alarm one or two bad nights sleep didn’t derail me that much I just Â
Felt like a dumpster fire for a few hours and this week’s average sleep score is is 81 okay not not  bad what I’ve noticed is that things like my heart rate variability is getting better my latency or Â
The time it takes to go to sleep is getting better I’m feeling more relaxed a little bit more alert  still not as alert as I think I could be so cozy and warm in [Music] here this is going to Â
Be a fun week this is the curve an infrared SAA from Clear light unlike hot rock saers this has  infrared heating panels that wrap around you so it doesn’t heat up the air it only Heats you the Â
Idea is to take a sauna at night then have about a 30 minute cool down period where you can sit and  relax maybe take a shower and this is when your body temperature should drop and melatonin gets Â
Produced otherwise known as the sleep hormone but one piece of pricey sleep Tech isn’t enough so I’m  going for the double with the eight sleep pod 3 this is kind of like a fancy fitted sheet that Â
Fits on top of your existing mattress and it’s a waterbase system that Heats and cools each side  of the bed automatically and it’s supposed to help you sleep better and longer oh this feels Â
So warm it’s like a hot water bottle I can’t wait to get into bed I keep this nice and toasty for  most of the night but if you’re the opposite and you run hot you can set it as low as 55° Â
So it’s kind of almost like turning your whole mattress to the cool side on most nights when  I took a sauna I had a shower and I jumped into bed with eight sleep I got got some of my best Â
Sleep scores ever I fell asleep faster when I got into bed I had fewer wakeups during the night and  most importantly I felt refreshed in the morning because we’re keeping track my average sleep score  this week is 83 so I do feel like I’m sleeping better with my expensive toys that’s in part Â
To really solidifying my routine and staying consistent with my wake up time but how much  comes down to Placebo Dr Paleo says it’s probably more than I think if you trust it it’ll have a  very strong placebo effect yeah um we know this from sleeping pill studies there’s about a 30% Â
Response just from getting to Placebo well the Sleep score doesn’t lie or does it confusingly  some of the nights where I felt like I slept the best during this entire experiment I had a pretty  low sleep score so it’s really important to know that sleep trackers are just tools and helpful Â
For seeing Trends over time and don’t forget any sleep score is proprietary every Fitness  tracker smart ring and smart watch use different algorithms to come up with that number they can’t  detect or diagnose Sleep Disorders like a sleep test can at least not yet which brings us back to Â
The polysomnography I wake up and Dr Paleo shows me my results oh hi good morning you’re really  pretty sleep architecture you’re supposed to have the bulk of the rim at the last half of the night  last third the eye movement that’s that’s so you’re completely within specs for that Â
Sleep architecture it’s very very normal sleep no it’s not no uhoh you had 28 times you had shallow  breathing that interrupted your sleep see no air so no air is moving so CU it’s flat yeah  nothing going in so 3.3 breathing episodes per hour we call Sleep apne starting at five events Â
An hour okay so as you get older you may become an issue for you but the main abnormal find I’m  explain what is going on is your legs are kicking you have an arouser right there oh yeah and see Â
Oh look see this is all it is look at it’s just it’s a tiny twitch though 136 times you kicked  your legs last another one there both legs now just for perspective that’s 16.2 events per hour Â
On your leg movements AB Norm almost 15 per hour but it makes sense then you’re feeling a feeling  tired something physically wrong with your sleep but you saw that your sleep tracker said you’re Â
Doing great but when you drill down in an actual sleep study you can see how you see all the things  that the track is not picking up on but now I have all this information what do I do with it talk to Â
You talk to your to talk to my doctor about it even a week after we film that I’m still kind  of in shock I honestly thought my sleep was okay and I was just feeling tired because I became a Â
Mom but it turns out there was a whole lot more going on with my sleep that I would never have  known if I didn’t do this story now one super important thing to remember this video is not  medical advice if you have sleep concerns please please please talk to your doctor or healthcare Â
Provider most of the Sleep Tech I tested helped me feel better and some even helped me sleep better  but it didn’t fix the underlying issue we found on the sleep study but everybody sleeps differently  and I hope something in this video can help you the ultimate irony though I’ve actually had some Â
Of the worst night sleep while writing this story after I finished filming the experiment  so please click like And subscribe to make it all worth it a huge thank you to the Stanford  sleep medicine center and Dr Paleo for explaining what we can do to all improve our sleep and for Â
Diagnosing me with a sleep condition I didn’t know I had and to the Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco  at in baradero for this beautiful beautiful Suite sweet dreams and thank you for watching
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