Bryan Johnson· Author
it gives your body time to digest food before sleep which will lower your heart rate which will boost your sleep and increase your will power and energy the next day
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it gives your body time to digest food before sleep which will lower your heart rate which will boost your sleep and increase your will power and energy the next day
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It will do more for your health than anything else. + it will help you create great sleep habits + sleep quality determines will power and if you'll exercise
it's the strongest predictor of your sleep quality
it's the strongest predictor of your sleep quality + sleep quality determines will power and if you'll exercise + exercise and will power determine if you eat well.
focusing on lowering your rhr before bed is probably the best thing you can do for yourself if you're going through stuff. it will stabilize your mood, improve sleep, increase will power, make you more optimistic, help you become a better problem solver....
And so if I have a low resting heart rate, I go to sleep, I'm going to have high quality sleep, which means I'm more likely to exercise. If I exercise, I'm more likely to eat well. If I eat well, you know, I have much more willpower because I slept well and ate well and now I'm not going to eat the bad food or take the stimulant or make this kind of debaucherous behavior.
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