Sleep

30/10/2018 17 min
Sleep

Episode Synopsis

What's Work Got To Do With Sleep?
Guest: Andrew McHill, Ph.D.
Host: Sam Greenspan, M.P.H.

Have you ever gone to work after a bad night of sleep? How productive were you at work that day? Did it make you eat any differently? Drink more coffee, may be? How about more than one night of bad sleep? Do you work the night shift? How does it affect you at work and outside of it? Sure, sleep happens at home but doesn’t your work affect it?...So what’s work go to do with it?

Today we’ll be speaking with Dr. Andrew McHill to learn more about how sleep can impact our health, our health habits, and the implications this may have for the workplace. Andrew will help us understand what happens to our bodies when our sleep patterns are disrupted and what we can do to help improve our sleep schedules.

Show notes/transcriptions are included at this link:
https://www.ohsu.edu/xd/research/centers-institutes/oregon-institute-occupational-health-sciences/upload/OccHealthSci_Sleep_AndrewMcHill_Episode4.pdf

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