The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
so anyway it should be fun talk about another sport where like all sports sleep really matters I mean I can't I can't imagine any athlete that's under more difficult sleep conditions than a Formula One driver because you know it's one thing if you play in the NBA you're gonna fly a lot but you have a three hour time zone max and based on how the conference's work and how the
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and as you look at that constellation of things that are taken care of in racecar drivers and in most high-performance athletes diet nutrition mental health those three things are well on the radar map of most of them sleep usually not
I can't imagine any athlete that's under more difficult sleep conditions than a Formula One driver because you know it's one thing if you play in the NBA you're gonna fly a lot but you have a three hour time zone max and based on how the conference's work and how the schedules work it's not like you're going plus three minus three plus three minus three plus three minus three when you look at Formula One first of all it's a ten month season basically I mean it's you know when you include pre-season testing and it's truly a global sport and it's not even like it's structured perfectly well it's not like they comb through Europe then go over to Asia and then you know hit a little Australia in Melbourne on the way over to North America and then hit South America it's not even done in the logical way that you would do it if you were optimizing for continental jump rate it's just like a leaf Ellison is horrific
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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.