We chose dolphins because most people don’t know it, but dolphins sleep unihemispherically, meaning that half of their brain is asleep while the other half is awake and looking for predators. They do a lot of what they do at night, so they’re the more creative, yet introverted types. These represent my night owl types of people, and so they hunt at night. Wolves are primarily nocturnal creatures. Bears have a tendency to get up as the sun rises, eat all day, and go to bed as the sun sets, which is what my bear chronotype is, which makes up about 50 to 55% of the population. They can get lazy throughout the middle of the day and on into the evening. What we found was, lions are very early morning creatures. I didn’t really relate well to birds, personally. I chose mammals in particular because we’re mammals. What I did was I looked for animals within the animal kingdom that actually followed the chronotypes that we find in humans.
How you came to describe them, perhaps, is the better way to ask that.
I wanted to ask you if you would explain a little bit about those four different types, as well as how you developed them. Interesting, so you’ve developed the four chronotypes in line with four different animals. Once you know about your hormone distribution, then you can do some pretty interesting things along the way that can be really helpful for you. That’s how you align yourself with your biology is knowing your chronotype tells you about your hormone distribution. Once you know what your chronotype is, then you know how your hormone levels will distribute throughout any given day. Then there are some people who are just not great sleepers, who’ve got wonky schedules all over the place. Some people are right in the middle, and some people are late night people. Some people are more early morning people. Your chronotype really is a label that you can put on yourself for your body’s internal circadian rhythm and the schedule that it’s on. Once I was able to identify them and give people an assessment tool to figure it out, then things started to happen really in a very interesting way. When I started to dig into the literature, what I discovered was actually there are four different chronotypes. When you only know about two of something, and they only represent about 25 to 30% of the population, there’s a bunch of people out there that are not covered by that. If anybody out there has ever heard of an early bird or a night owl, then you’re actually very familiar with what a chronotype actually is, but historically we’ve only known about two of them. Believe it or not, most people have actually heard of them before. A lot of people might not even know what a chronotype is, so it’s probably good to explain that. When you look at something like a chronotype … First of all, let me back up for just a second. Can you describe a little bit more about what this means?
NUMBER ONE SLEEP EXPERT MICHAEL BREUS HOW TO
Your book is about the understanding of the rhythm of your biology as set by your biological clocks, and you give advice on how to sync the rhythm of your day with the rhythm of your biology. Mehmet Oz writes the forward to your book, and he praises you for being “out in front of cutting edge information about sleep and sleep disorders”. Today is the release of his third book, entitled The Power of When in which he helps us understand our own personal inner clock and how we can best manage it to live happy and productive lives. His blogs can be found at The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and The Insomnia Blog, among others. Oz.” He’s a wellness coach on AOL and a sleep expert for WebMD Health. You may have seen him on CNN, Oprah, “The View” and “Dr. Breus is on a mission to develop innovative education and communication programs. In addition to his private practice, where he treats athletes, celebrities, and others, he also trains other sleep doctors and consults with organizations to provide better sleep for their customers and staff.ĭedicated to raising awareness of both sleep disorders and what he calls ‘disordered sleep”, Dr. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Fellow of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He is a clinical psychologist with a specialty in sleep disorders. Michael Breus, often referred to as The Sleep Doctor. This is Randall Redfield, Co-Founder and CEO of Integrated Listening Systems, with Karen Onderko, our Director of Research and Education. Learn how the Dreampad addresses sleep issues. Breus discusses how to determine your own specific chronotype and specific tweaks to bring your daily schedule in line with your natural physiological rhythms in order to improve your health, productivity and happiness. We speak with Michael Breus, PhD about sleep and his new book The Power of When.
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