Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
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Sleep is the most powerful drug available. For performance, mental health and well-being.
Sleep is the number one performance-enhancing drug of your entire life.
sleep is the number one most effective performance-enhancing drug available to every humans, every human.
If you realize sleep is the number one performance-enhancing drug. It's there's no more powerful drug in the world you can take on a daily basis.
10 minutes of bright outdoor light within the first hour of waking anchors the circadian phase and improves sleep onset that night.
Morning sunlight exposure shifts the cortisol awakening response forward, improving daytime alertness.
Long-term morning sunlight reduces age-related macular degeneration risk.
Sleep regularity predicts all-cause mortality more strongly than sleep duration.
Tracking deep sleep on a wearable accurately reflects EEG-measured slow-wave sleep.
Caffeine has a half-life long enough that consumption after 2pm measurably degrades deep sleep in slow metabolizers.