Sleep Optimization for those with Little Time with Dr. Kirk Parsley

Dr. Kirk Parsley is a former SEAL, served as the Undersea Medical Officer at Naval Special Warfare Group One from June 2009 to January 2013. Dr. Parsley shares his insights on how to optimize sleep as a high performing professional, using peptides, hormones, and the issues with sleep deprivation.

Who is Doc Parsley?

Kirk Parsley served as an Undersea Medical Officer at Naval Special Warfare Group One from June 2009 to January 2013. While there, he led the development and supervised the group’s first Sports Medicine Rehabilitation center. He is a former SEAL and received his Medical Degree from Bethesda, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS) in 2004. He interned in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Balboa Naval Hospital San Diego in 2005 and subsequently completed a Navy residency in Hyperbarics and Diving Medicine in 2006.

Doctor Parsley has been a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine since 2006 and served as Naval Special Warfare’s expert on Sleep Medicine. In addition, he is certified in hormonal modulation (Age-Management Medicine). After leaving the Navy he went into concierge medicine and consulting. He continues to consult for multiple corporations, and professional athletes/teams. Doctor Parsley lectures worldwide on sleep, wellness, and hormonal optimization and is currently completing a book on sleep and health optimization.

His philosophy for wellness is simple; in order to optimize our health and get the most out of our bodies and minds, we must live more closely to the way we evolved as a species. He believes that many diseases and disorders that we accept as “inevitable” in modern society are unnecessary complications of poor sleeping habits, living in a toxic environment, eating foods we were not designed to digest, and allowing stress to overwhelm us. His passion is to help his patients and clients achieve the highest quality of life possible, and realize their health, performance, and longevity goals.

Dr. Parsley spends as much of his spare time as possible with his three beautiful children (Hayden, Cole, and Harper). He has been a competitive athlete his entire life and enjoys nearly all outdoor activities and sports.

Highlights

• [1:31] Dr. Parsley's background in the Navy Seals
• [3:00] B.U.D.S.
• [9:37] Being the SEAL team doctor
• [16:46] Training jiu-jitsu with Jocko Wollinck
• [22:18] The connection between sleep deprivation and drinking alcohol
• [28:35] Dealing with jetlag and the occupational hazards of entrepreneurship
• [31:26] Uberman sleep
• [34:41] The two things you need to perfect sleep hygiene
• [41:21] Why Sleep Remedy is a tea
• [43:10] Weighing the Netflix show in the evening
• [46:10] The effects of sleep drugs
• [53:23] Peptides and their effect on sleep and hormones
• [1:02:02] Taking vitamin D at night
• [1:09:07] Dr. Kirk Parsley answers the final 4 questions

Resources

• Doc Parsley's Sleep Remedy - use code "decodingsuperhuman" for 10% off
• Dr. Kirk Parsley's Ted Talk
• Moderate sleep deprivation produces impairments in cognitive and motor performance equivalent to legally prescribed levels of alcohol intoxication
• Shift Work and Cancer
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Marc Manson
• King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore
• 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
• Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill

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