Andrew Huberman· PhD
And then getting your sleep right makes you do a bunch of other things, right? You're you're more motivated to exercise for one. More motivated to exercise. your food choices. I mean, and on and on.
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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.
And then getting your sleep right makes you do a bunch of other things, right? You're you're more motivated to exercise for one. More motivated to exercise. your food choices. I mean, and on and on.
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maybe it's not the sleep directly it's the sleep transacting it's benefits that we know also play into decreased risk for cognitive decline such that you start making better food choices the amount of caloric intake that you have is lower the amount of calories that you expend is higher your motivations to be physically active and when you are active you workout more intensely and harder all of those things and we know come by way of a benefit of sleep
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