Bryan Johnson· Author
Your resting heart rate will drop, and your sleep quality will soar.
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Your resting heart rate will drop, and your sleep quality will soar.
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Eating earlier will lower your resting heart rate which will boost your sleep.
If I had to distill the protocol into one thing, it'd be um eat further away from bedtime. Like that is the number one thing for me that would impact my resting heart rate.
Any snacks before bed. I think like a lot of times Brian and I will be in public with people and be like you know like have dinner at 5:00 p.m. just try that.
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