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With your host Dr Ian Dunican we dive into all things sleep and performance-related. We focus on the latest evidence-based research and practical applications.

Sleep4Performance Podcast Dr Ian Dunican

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With your host Dr Ian Dunican we dive into all things sleep and performance-related. We focus on the latest evidence-based research and practical applications.

    Season 8, Episode 13 w Jesse Cook and Dr Johnathan Charest Sleep and Performance in Professional Athletes (3/3)

    Season 8, Episode 13 w Jesse Cook and Dr Johnathan Charest Sleep and Performance in Professional Athletes (3/3)

    Welcome to the final of three episodes with Jesse Cook and Dr Jonathan Charest. These episodes break down the excellent review by these two gurus. We break down the lad's recent review and much more in these episodes.
    Cook, J.D., Charest, J. Sleep and Performance in Professional Athletes. Curr Sleep Medicine Rep 9, 56–81 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40675-022-00243-
    Check out Jesse’s presentation at the S4P seminar in 2022 Jesse Cook: Circadian Preference, Sleep Inertia, and Running Performance: A retrospective investigation of runner performance from the 2016 London Marathon https://youtu.be/1XRWSynGmRc
    Jesse is pursuing a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently stands at dissertator status. Previously, he received my Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Arizona (UofA). During his Senior year at the UofA, he began his Sleep research career as an undergraduate research assistant in Dr. Richard Bootzin's, PhD, Sleep Research Laboratory. He has affiliations as a trainee member with the Sleep Research Society, Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, and World Sleep Society. He has served as the Sleep Research Society Trainee Member At-large from 2020-2021 and currently serves on the Communications Committee. Also, he has established the Sleep Research Society podcast and currently serves as the host. He enjoys running, biking, cooking, baking, reading, and listening to podcasts/audiobooks in his spare time.
     
    Connect with Jesse
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-cook-a89bbb154/
    Researchgate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jesse-Cook-3
    Twitter @sleepandsports
    Jonathan’s previous episode on S4P podcast
    Season 8, Episode 4 w Dr Jonathan Charest on travel, jet lag, fatigue & performance in the NHL
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uKDv3VrFs4&t=390s
    Dr Jonathan Charest is the Director of Athlete Sleep Services and a Behavioral Sleep Medicine Specialist at the Centre for Sleep & Human performance. He works to develop and optimize sleep for athletes (regional to international level). He focuses on how to optimize sleep, training and travel schedule for athletes, occasional athletes, and student-athletes.  In addition to his bachelor’s in psychology (Sherbrooke University), Jonathan completed his PhD in psychology (Laval University). He possesses expertise in behavioural sleep medicine (CBT-I), circadian rhythms disorders, and the specific reality of the athletic population. Jonathan has been an invited public speaker for sleep at International Conferences.  As an ex-athlete, Jonathan believes in the importance of sleep, recovery and regeneration in the performance environment and, alongside Dr Samuels and the entire team at CSHP, brings a strong commitment to athletes, coaches, and teams to deliver education, screening tools, and research-based strategies to establish healthy sleep hygiene for athletes throughout their career, and for a lifetime.
    Connect with Jonathan
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jonath...
    Twitter https://twitter.com/jocharest1?lang=en
    Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...
    Contact me at iandunican@sleep4performance.com.au or www.sleep4performance.com.au  and check out the YouTube channel. Check out our sponsor, LMNT. Click on the link to order and get a free LMNT Sample Pack when you order through the custom link below. Key details:   The LMNT Sample Pack includes 1 packet of every flavour. This is the perfect offer for anyone interested in trying all our flavours or wanting to introduce a friend to LMNT. This offer is exclusively available through VIP LMNT Partners – you won’t find this offer publicly available. This offer is available for new and returning customers. They offer refunds on all orders with no questions – you don’t even have to send it back! http://drinklmnt.com/sleep4performance

    • 1 hr 7 min
    Season 8, Episode 12 w Jesse Cook and Dr Johnathan Charest Sleep and Performance in Professional Athletes (2/3)

    Season 8, Episode 12 w Jesse Cook and Dr Johnathan Charest Sleep and Performance in Professional Athletes (2/3)

    Welcome to the secont of three episodes with Jesse Cook and Dr Jonathan Charest. These episodes break down the excellent review by these two gurus. We break down the lad's recent review and much more in these episodes.
    Cook, J.D., Charest, J. Sleep and Performance in Professional Athletes. Curr Sleep Medicine Rep 9, 56–81 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40675-022-00243-
    Check out Jesse’s presentation at the S4P seminar in 2022 Jesse Cook: Circadian Preference, Sleep Inertia, and Running Performance: A retrospective investigation of runner performance from the 2016 London Marathon https://youtu.be/1XRWSynGmRc
    Jesse is pursuing a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently stands at dissertator status. Previously, he received my Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Arizona (UofA). During his Senior year at the UofA, he began his Sleep research career as an undergraduate research assistant in Dr. Richard Bootzin's, PhD, Sleep Research Laboratory. He has affiliations as a trainee member with the Sleep Research Society, Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, and World Sleep Society. He has served as the Sleep Research Society Trainee Member At-large from 2020-2021 and currently serves on the Communications Committee. Also, he has established the Sleep Research Society podcast and currently serves as the host. In his spare time, he enjoys run, biking, cooking, baking, reading, and listening to podcasts/audiobooks.
     
    Connect with Jesse
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-cook-a89bbb154/
    Researchgate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jesse-Cook-3
    Twitter @sleepandsports
    Jonathan’s previous episode on S4P podcast
    Season 8, Episode 4 w Dr Jonathan Charest on travel, jet lag, fatigue & performance in the NHL
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uKDv3VrFs4&t=390s
    Dr Jonathan Charest is the Director of Athlete Sleep Services and a Behavioral Sleep Medicine Specialist at the Centre for Sleep & Human performance. He works to develop and optimize sleep for athletes (regional to international level). He focuses on how to optimize sleep, training and travel schedule for athletes, occasional athletes, and student-athletes.  In addition to his bachelor’s in psychology (Sherbrooke University), Jonathan completed his PhD in psychology (Laval University). He possesses expertise in behavioural sleep medicine (CBT-I), circadian rhythms disorders, as well as the specific reality of the athletic population. Jonathan has been an invited public speaker for sleep at International Conferences.  As an ex-athlete, Jonathan believes in the importance of sleep, recovery and regeneration in the performance environment and, alongside Dr Samuels and the entire team at CSHP, brings a strong commitment to athletes, coaches, and teams to deliver education, screening tools, and research-based strategies to establish healthy sleep hygiene for athletes throughout their career, and for a lifetime.
    Connect with Jonathan
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jonath...
    Twitter https://twitter.com/jocharest1?lang=en
    Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...
     
    Contact me at iandunican@sleep4performance.com.au or www.sleep4performance.com.au  and check out the YouTube channel. Check out our sponsor, LMNT. Click on the link to order and get a free LMNT Sample Pack when you order through the custom link below. Key details:   The LMNT Sample Pack includes 1 packet of every flavour. This is the perfect offer for anyone interested in trying all our flavours or wanting to introduce a friend to LMNT. This offer is exclusively available through VIP LMNT Partners – you won’t find this offer publicly available. This offer is available for new and returning customers. They offer refunds on all orders with no questions – you don’t even have to send it back! http://drinklmnt.com/sleep4performance

    • 1 hr 10 min
    Season 8, Episode 11 w Dr Jade Murray on personalized sleep–wake management for shift workers

    Season 8, Episode 11 w Dr Jade Murray on personalized sleep–wake management for shift workers

    In this episode, I am joined by Dr Jade Murray. Dr. Jade M. Murray completed a PhD programme at the Monash University Sleep and Circadian Medicine Laboratory in 2018. Dr Murray's broad research interests include studying the effects of circadian misalignment on overall health in healthy and sleep-disordered populations and developing simplified methods for determining the timing of the circadian phase. An important innovation in her work has been tracking light-dark exposure data over time to build predictive models of circadian timing for the development of personalised delivery systems for sleep-wake interventions.
    In this episode, we discuss Jade's recent paper "Murray JM, Magee M, Giliberto ES, Booker LA, Tucker AJ, Galaska B, Sibenaller SM, Baer SA, Postnova S, Sondag TAC, Phillips AJK, Sletten TL, Howard ME, Rajaratnam SMW. Mobile app for personalized sleep-wake management for shift workers: A user testing trial. Digit Health. 2023 Mar 29"
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10064476/
    Connect w Jade on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jade-murray-652442163/ 
    ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jade-Murray-2 
    Contact me at iandunican@sleep4performance.com.au or www.sleep4performance.com.au  and check out the YouTube channel.
    Check out our sponsor, LMNT. Click on the link to order and get a free LMNT Sample Pack when you order through the custom link below.
    Key details: The LMNT Sample Pack includes 1 packet of every flavour. This is the perfect offer for anyone interested in trying all our flavours or wanting to introduce a friend to LMNT. This offer is exclusively available through VIP LMNT Partners – you won’t find this offer publicly available.
    This offer is available for new and returning customers. They offer refunds on all orders with no questions – you don’t even have to send it back! http://drinklmnt.com/sleep4performance

    • 1 hr 6 min
    Season 8, Episode 10 w Jesse Cook and Dr Johnathan Charest Sleep and Performance in Professional Athletes (1/3)

    Season 8, Episode 10 w Jesse Cook and Dr Johnathan Charest Sleep and Performance in Professional Athletes (1/3)

    Welcome to the first three episodes with Jesse Cook and Dr Jonathan Charest. These episodes break down the excellent review by these two gurus. We break down the lad's recent review and much more in these episodes.
    Cook, J.D., Charest, J. Sleep and Performance in Professional Athletes. Curr Sleep Medicine Rep 9, 56–81 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40675-022-00243-
    Check out Jesse’s presentation at the S4P seminar in 2022 Jesse Cook: Circadian Preference, Sleep Inertia, and Running Performance: A retrospective investigation of runner performance from the 2016 London Marathon https://youtu.be/1XRWSynGmRc
    Jesse is pursuing a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently stands at dissertator status. Previously, he received my Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Arizona (UofA). During his Senior year at the UofA, he began his Sleep research career as an undergraduate research assistant in Dr. Richard Bootzin's, PhD, Sleep Research Laboratory. He has affiliations as a trainee member with the Sleep Research Society, Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, and World Sleep Society. He has served as the Sleep Research Society Trainee Member At-large from 2020-2021 and currently serves on the Communications Committee. Also, he has established the Sleep Research Society podcast and currently serves as the host. In his spare time, he enjoys run, biking, cooking, baking, reading, and listening to podcasts/audiobooks.
     
    Connect with Jesse
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-cook-a89bbb154/
    Researchgate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jesse-Cook-3
    Twitter @sleepandsports
    Jonathan’s previous episode on S4P podcast
    Season 8, Episode 4 w Dr Jonathan Charest on travel, jet lag, fatigue & performance in the NHL
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uKDv3VrFs4&t=390s
    Dr Jonathan Charest is the Director of Athlete Sleep Services and a Behavioral Sleep Medicine Specialist at the Centre for Sleep & Human performance. He works to develop and optimize sleep for athletes (regional to international level). He focuses on how to optimize sleep, training and travel schedule for athletes, occasional athletes, and student-athletes.  In addition to his bachelor’s in psychology (Sherbrooke University), Jonathan completed his PhD in psychology (Laval University). He possesses expertise in behavioural sleep medicine (CBT-I), circadian rhythms disorders, as well as the specific reality of the athletic population. Jonathan has been an invited public speaker for sleep at International Conferences.  As an ex-athlete, Jonathan believes in the importance of sleep, recovery and regeneration in the performance environment and, alongside Dr Samuels and the entire team at CSHP, brings a strong commitment to athletes, coaches, and teams to deliver education, screening tools, and research-based strategies to establish healthy sleep hygiene for athletes throughout their career, and for a lifetime.
    Connect with Jonathan
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jonath...
    Twitter https://twitter.com/jocharest1?lang=en
    Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...
     
    Contact me at iandunican@sleep4performance.com.au or www.sleep4performance.com.au  and check out the YouTube channel. Check out our sponsor, LMNT. Click on the link to order and get a free LMNT Sample Pack when you order through the custom link below. Key details:   The LMNT Sample Pack includes 1 packet of every flavour. This is the perfect offer for anyone interested in trying all our flavours or wanting to introduce a friend to LMNT. This offer is exclusively available through VIP LMNT Partners – you won’t find this offer publicly available. This offer is available for new and returning customers. They offer refunds on all orders with no questions – you don’t even have to send it back! http://drinklmnt.com/sleep4performance

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Season 8, Episode 9 w Dr Haresh Suppiah on developing practical sleep tools to support athletes

    Season 8, Episode 9 w Dr Haresh Suppiah on developing practical sleep tools to support athletes

    In this episode, I chat with Dr Haresh Suppiah is a Lecturer and Research Fellow in Sport and Exercise Science and Sport Analytics. He was previously a Senior Sport Physiologist and Head of Research and Development at the National Youth Sports Institute (Singapore), where he worked with multiple Olympic sports in preparation for regional and international competitions. His doctoral and current research focuses on the performance impact of sleep in adolescent athletes. His research also extends to other applied sport science areas, identifying and developing youth talent in sport, and strength and conditioning. Specifically, we discuss some of his recent papers. 
    Suppiah, Haresh; Swinbourne, Richard; Wee, Jericho; He, Qixiang; Pion, Johan; Driller, Matthew W; et al. (2021). Predicting Youth Athlete Sleep Quality and the Development of a Translational Tool to Inform Practitioner Decision Making. La Trobe. Journal contribution. https://doi.org/10.26181/618b4591bfd48
    Connect with Haresh at https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/hsuppiah.
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hareshtsuppiah/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/hareshsuppiah
    Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Haresh-Suppiah 
    Contact me at iandunican@sleep4performance.com.au or www.sleep4performance.com.au  and check out the YouTube channel.
    Check out our sponsor, LMNT. Click on the link to order and get a free LMNT Sample Pack when you order through the custom link below.
    Key details:  
    The LMNT Sample Pack includes 1 packet of every flavour.
    This is the perfect offer for anyone interested in trying all our flavours or wanting to introduce a friend to LMNT.
    This offer is exclusively available through VIP LMNT Partners – you won’t find this offer publicly available.
    This offer is available for new and returning customers.
    They offer refunds on all orders with no questions – you don’t even have to send it back! http://drinklmnt.com/sleep4performance
     
     

    • 1 hr 9 min
    Season 8 Episode 8 w Dr Peter Tierney on technology, data, and visualisation

    Season 8 Episode 8 w Dr Peter Tierney on technology, data, and visualisation

    In this episode, I chat with Dr Peter Tierney. Currently working as a Senior Research Scientist at Lululemon Product Innovation (Advanced Concepts).
    Previously Peter spent 8 years working in high-performance sports in football/soccer (The English FA), rugby union (Leinster Rugby), and swimming (UCD elite team) as a hybrid Performance Coach & Sports Scientist. He also has experience with Gaelic football & hurling, amateur rugby union, and schools level rugby and hockey. His experience spans male and female athletes across a wide age range with experience in sports science, strength & conditioning, sports performance, health and wellness, and athletic performance development. Peter is interested in the application of wearables to monitor health and performance in people, athletes, and teams are a strong interest of his.
    Peter completed his PhD titled: "Novel insights into understanding performance in professional rugby union: an applied sports science approach" alongside his full-time work in Leinster & The FA. His MSc in Research, completed alongside working full time with Leinster Rugby, explored the “Application of GPS technology in professional rugby union". To support and supplement his roles and interests in health and performance, Peter has completed a ProfDip in Data Analytics & Statistics, to help him better translate and visualise the performance, strength and conditioning data. Peter’s BSc Health & Performance Science final year thesis examined the effect of caffeinated chewing gum on repeated sprint ability in team sport athletes.
     
    Connect with Peter
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/drpetertierney/
    Twitter @drpetertierney
    Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Tierney-2
    Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drpetertierney/?hl=en
    Email: peter_tierney@hotmail.com
    Contact me at iandunican@sleep4performance.com.au or www.sleep4performance.com.au  and check out the YouTube channel.
    Check out our sponsor, LMNT. Click on the link to order and get a free LMNT Sample Pack when you order through the custom link below.
    Key details:  
    The LMNT Sample Pack includes 1 packet of every flavour.
    This is the perfect offer for anyone interested in trying all our flavours or wanting to introduce a friend to LMNT.
    This offer is exclusively available through VIP LMNT Partners – you won’t find this offer publicly available.
    This offer is available for new and returning customers.
    They offer refunds on all orders with no questions – you don’t even have to send it back! http://drinklmnt.com/sleep4performance

    • 1 hr 18 min

Customer Reviews

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Silverskin66 ,

Fantastic podcast

Excellent info very well presented. Keep up the good work 👌

Bram Temby ,

A must listen

Great podcast about all things sleep and performance. This is one of my go to resources.

Red Sox Downunder ,

Great insights into improving health and wellbeing

Ian and guests,

Thanks for taking the time to share with us your tips and insights for improving heath and wellbeing through managing exercise, diet and sleep routines whilst managing the rest of our lives. The parallels that can be drawn from other people in different industries and even elite sportspeople to our personal situation is extremely useful.

Regards Ross

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