Source Requests Newsletter #147

Sleep doctors + someone who's lowered their cholesterol

Hi all! Hope you had a great holiday weekend and start to the week.

NOTE: Please let me know if you can help with any of these stories & who the expert/source is. Once I give you the green light, please answer the questions by the deadline listed. This is to ensure I don’t get a bunch of responses from people I can’t use since I can only include so many expert sources per story. Thanks!

Reminders

• Please check out the intro here if you haven’t already, and don’t forget about my resources for PR professionals :)

• EOD for me means 11:59pm, but the earlier the better!

• If you mention a study or say “research,” please link it!

• Feel free to forward this email (and future emails) to experts or PRs who may be able to help :)

• NEW: Don’t use AI to generate your answers, please!

1. Story: “Core Sleep” on an Apple Watch

• Publication: Parade

• Sources needed: Sleep doctor

• Deadline to answer questions: Monday, July 14, EOD

• Questions:

  • Name, credentials, link to about/bio page

  • What does “core sleep” mean on an Apple Watch?

  • What are the sleep stages, and how does “core sleep” fit in? Please list and explain each stage.

  • How much core sleep does a person need? Please explain your answer & why core sleep is important.

  • How much sleep in the other stages does a person need? Please explain.

  • How can you get more core sleep?

  • What are other definitions people may have of “core sleep",” other than the Apple Watch definition?

  • Anything else for people to know?

2. Story: How to track your sleep on your Apple Watch

• Publication: Parade

• Sources needed: Sleep doctor

• Deadline to answer questions: Monday, July 14, EOD

• Questions:

  • Name, credentials, link to about/bio page

  • Do all Apple Watches track sleep, and/or how do you know if yours does?

  • What all does it track, exactly?

  • Please list and explain the apps on an Apple Watch that give sleep data.

  • How can you “tell” your Apple Watch to record your sleep?

  • How do you read the results on the Apple Watch sleep app?

  • What keywords or results should you aim for?

  • Anything else you want people to know?

3. Story: Someone who lowered their cholesterol in 6 weeks by swapping their breakfast (personal experience)

• Publication: Parade

• Sources needed: Someone who has personal experience lowering their cholesterol in 6 weeks by swapping their breakfast (yes, it has to be this specific!)

• Deadline to answer questions: Monday, July 14, EOD

• Questions:

  • Name, credentials, link to about/bio page

  • What did you use to eat for breakfast, and what do you eat now that’s helped lower your cholesterol? Please also share specifics (ex: 1 cup of X).

  • Did you get this suggestion from a website, a doctor…?

  • Please share timeline data (ex: one week in I lowered my cholesterol by X amount, and so on and so forth, all the way to the end of the 6 weeks).

  • Have you done anything else that’s helped lower your cholesterol?

Thank you!

Ashley