Change Your Body Position To Get Better Sleep – Dr. Peter Martone with Dave Asprey – #819

• Neck Nest, which is a specially designed pillow for alignment. We’re going to talk about why that matters for lymphatic drainage and all this. And he’s actually the guy who got me to reconsider side sleeping. – 1:07
• You’re a professional chiropractor, but you had back pain for 15 years – 3:23
• I reviewed 2000 x-rays and I found a pattern. The problem wasn’t in my lower back, it was in my neck. And it was because I was using my pillow wrong. – 7:40
• I started coming up with anchors. These anchors are law. Like law that you can’t pass go before you collect 200. These are anchors of how the body works.  – 10:14
• I’m going to challenge you and everybody that’s listening challenge, I want you to get into the position that you fall asleep in, and I want you to watch a two hour movie in that position.  – 13:28
• So the big thing about snoring is your airway, right? Is being able to open the airway, being able to use your tongue effectively. – 15:31
  
• Is there actually traction happening or is it just, it feels like that?  – 19:02
  
• Some of these studies that do these animal studies and they try to extrapolate them to humans, it doesn’t make sense. – 22:42
  
• Really when it comes down to it, the best for your actual curves would be a hard surface. – 25:45
  
• What I found was, when somebody loses the cervical curve in their neck, like this patient right here, they pick up a scoliosis in their lower back. – 27:46
  
• That’s why it’s so important that I educate my clients, or people that use the Neck Nest. The way that it looks like you use the Neck Nest is not how you use the Neck Nest. – 30:51
  
• If you use a regular pillow support for your head in an elevated sleeping position, you are destroying your cervical spine because that exacerbates the forward head angle. – 35:21
  
• What have you learned about sleep position and heart rate variability?  – 37:40
  
• I tell my clients is, every hour of sleep you get before midnight is worth two hours of sleep after midnight.  – 40:58
  
• I don’t believe you need deep sleep every night. – 44:01
  
• Core temperature is significantly important when you come to deep sleep and quality of sleep. – 49:05
  
• When people talk about sleeping position, glymphatic drainage is this, your brain and your neural tissue needs to detoxify, and it does so at night. And there’s this flow of cerebral spinal fluid that occurs. There’s an influx and then there’s an outflux of flow.   – 54:19
  
• Holly: (Upgrade Collective
  Is there any data or research you’ve done with what the Neck Nest might do for relieving TMJ symptoms? – 58:31
  
• To improve your sleep, cut your food out at least four hours before you go to bed. – 1:02:25

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