Rhonda Patrick· PhD
extending sleep, especially in younger elite athletes, we're not talking about 60-y old, but I'm talking about like 20 25 year olds, 19 year olds, 29 year olds, like do an experiment, get more sleep if you can.
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extending sleep, especially in younger elite athletes, we're not talking about 60-y old, but I'm talking about like 20 25 year olds, 19 year olds, 29 year olds, like do an experiment, get more sleep if you can.
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especially athletes especially younger athletes like like adolescents young adults you know most people in elite sport are under 30, younger people will benefit more from more sleep than older people will to be honest.
so so you so first of all, just sleeping a little bit more if you're younger. That's probably the easiest thing you can do.
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