#345 Best Supplement Stack for Sleep /w Matt Gallant

Matt Gallant (0:00)

Most people think of sleep, it might affect me later. I can go a few nights and get over it, and I'll just drink some coffee, I'll be fine. The facts are that one night of bad sleep has immediate, significant impact. The number one thing I can do to ensure that I have a great day, it's great sleep.

Siim Land (0:17)

Welcome to the Siim Land Podcast. I'm your host Siim Land, and our guest today is Matt Gallant. Matt is the co-founder of Biooptimizers that's brought many bestselling supplements like Magnesium Breakthrough and MassSimes. In this episode, we're going to discuss all the best strategies and supplements for sleep. If you want to try Biooptimizers' new sleep supplement called Sleep Breakthrough, then head over to sleepbreakthrough.com and use the code SIIM for 10% off.

Matt, welcome back to the show.

Matt Gallant (0:46)

It's great to be here, man. You're a world of knowledge, and I always learn when I listen to you, and actually had a big influence on the product we're going to be talking about today.

Siim Land (0:58)

I'm glad to hear that.

I don't even know that, or it didn't, but we'll hear what it is. But yeah, like we're just gonna, today talk a lot about sleep because you are also just pretty much biohacking expert who does a lot of like these experiments and has like hacked your health and cognition and all those things, sleep included. So we're just gonna dive into the importance of sleep, what's the issue with people's sleep nowadays, and yeah, pretty much how to optimize it because yeah, that's what we do.

Matt Gallant (1:30)

Yeah, it was a necessity. First of all, I have bad genetics for sleep. I didn't know that, of course, growing up, when I went over my genes with a nutrigenomic expert, it showed up and it wasn't surprising because my father struggles to fall asleep. I struggled for the majority of his life.

Magnesium breakthrough and the new products really helped him significantly, which is awesome. But yeah, it's been a real struggle.

And then I just decided that it was the number one thing I could focus on. I made a decision about eight years ago, spent about $45,000 on everything from custom-made mattress to Faraday cages, to every PEMF device, to tens of thousands of dollars on sleep molecules. So yeah, discovered a lot. And of course, I've read the majority of the sleep literature that's out there. And I think we put together something that's really interesting.

Siim Land (2:22)

You mentioned like genetics affecting that, obviously there are a lot of genetic factors that can control and affect people's sleep quality. But I think obviously there's still, the vast majority is still like epigenetic or like just the environment and the lifestyle. So maybe we can just start with why do we sleep, or why is like this general trend that people say they don't sleep that well nowadays?

Matt Gallant (2:51)

Yeah, first of all, most people just don't have optimized sleep environments. You mentioned something that's really critical, which is that if you look at your genes and you have a genetic variant that might cause issues, that's not a debt sentence. What that means though, is that you should spend more time, more energy, focusing on making sure that you're really taking care of that thing. And sleep was a great example for me, because again, I was able to go from zero to 15 minutes of deep sleep to 90 minutes plus and two to three hours of REM each night.

So yeah, let's just talk about a couple of scary stats.

Most people think of sleep like it might affect me later. I can go a few nights and get over it and I'll just drink some coffee, I'll be fine.

The facts are that one night of bad sleep has immediate significant impact.

One of my favorite stats is when the clock changes in the spring and in the fall, there's a massive shift in heart attacks, about a 45% delta. So when we lose an hour of sleep, there's a 24% rise the next day. And when people gain an hour of sleep in the fall, the heart attack rate goes down 21%. So that's a 45% difference between losing an hour and gaining an hour. And then when you looked at genetic expressions, you talked about epigenetics. One bad night of sleep will turn on genes related to cancer, to tumors, all kinds of really negative things. So of course, it has a really bad impact short term, and it has, of course, a significant impact long term. I mean, long term, the data is if you don't sleep enough or if you sleep too much, you're going to die earlier, you're going to die younger. So it's a really significant thing. And I think in terms of quality of life, like when I think about what's the number one thing I can do to ensure that I have a great day, it's great sleep. You know, really your day starts while you're sleeping, in my opinion.