This time James talks about school start times, and the poor quality of sleep education in schools in the UK, and how school start times have gotten earlier, and our teens have got fatter, and their mental health has suffered... is this a coincidence?

He discusses how later school start times have led to better exam grades, and physical and mental health in our kids, and why as a society we shy away from embracing a change that leads to better results and health.

In the episode James mentions one of his favourite books about sleeping better, Sleep To Win by James Maas, buy it here.

You can find out more about James’ work at www.thesleepgeek.co.uk and the work his company kipmate does with sports teams and organisations here www.kipmate.com

This episode talks about how they believe that some experts have, that poor sleepers are stupid and they need to be scared into getting better sleep and why Matthew Walker's book Why We Sleep, is one of the main causes of poor sleep he works with.

He discusses how the sleep world needs to challenge damaging communication and misinterpreted research, and why the My Mate Matt Mafia are not helping the sleep industry or poor sleepers.

In this episode James mentions an article he wrote about how pop scientists are ruining our sleep for Sleep Review, which you can find here, and in the Not Bollocks section he recommends the book How To Sleep Like a Caveman, which you can see here.

You can find out more about James’ work at www.thesleepgeek.co.uk and the work his company kipmate does with sports teams and organisations here www.kipmate.com

In this episode the topic is one of the biggest causes of Orthosomnia, sleep trackers and James looks at whether they are helpful to sleep, or just make people’s sleep worse.

Are they accurate? Do they focus on separating you from your money, or actually helping you understand your sleep better, and do they use marketing tactics that lack transparency, enabled by experts who have commercial relationships with the tracking brands? Give it a listen to find out.

You can find out more about James’ work at www.thesleepgeek.co.uk and the work his company kipmate does with sports teams and organisations here www.kipmate.com