{"podcast":{"title":"Keep Talking","slug":"keep-talking-1331245","podcast_index_feed_id":1331245,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/20210520_005222_a8e19a4cd6d9a7bc6e33dc39aa33e2b3.jpg","author":"Dan Riley","episode_count":155,"summary":"\"Keep Talking\" exists to have conversations that might help to make a better society and a better culture. I believe that each guest has important information and stories to make public. And it's something that I want to share.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T02:20:25.098457+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 140: Russell Foster - Sleep: The Most Important Thing You Do","slug":"episode-140-russell-foster-sleep-the-most-important-thing-you-do","published_at":"2025-01-31T10:00:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-140-russell-foster-sleep-the-most-important-thing-you-do","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans/1871957","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/14586/1871957/humans/2025_01_29_20_21_48_90a3eec6-5be0-4b9b-bba6-378d7ca13522.mp3","summary":"Russell Foster is a sleep expert, a professor of circadian neuroscience, a fellow of the Royal Society, and the author of Life Time . ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (00:55) Views on sleep through time (03:34) Why we have de-prioritized sleep (05:39) Where should sleep rank in our health priorities? (08:22) How do we know we're getting enough sleep? (11:59) The historic and current cost of sleep deprivation (17:44) Why does sleep exist? (21:53) What is happening biologically while people sleep? (27:59) Sleep and mental illness (38:09) What those with mental illness can do to stabilize their sleep (01:00:25) Sleep for new parents (01:03:35) How would a healthy society approach sleep?","meta_description":"Russell Foster is a sleep expert, a professor of circadian neuroscience, a fellow of the Royal Society, and the author of Life Time . ------------ Book Da…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4013,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keep-talking-1331245/episodes/episode-140-russell-foster-sleep-the-most-important-thing-you-do/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-140-russell-foster-sleep-the-most-important-thing-you-do.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}