Transcribed from video:
– Sleep, again, it normalises the hormones responsible for recovery so you can adapt better. So, you must sleep. Its an important thing. That’s probably, and I’m hardly cover it other than these this weekend, but if you wanted to do one thing to improve your health other than maybe quite smoking. Sleep would be it. You know, eat healthy, sleep, exercise, don’t smoke. They’re all right up there. Prepare for a big popularisation of sleep in the next two to three years. That’s the way it is trending. It’s going to be the pilates of the 2020s, I think. Which is fine with me, like, yeah, let’s do it. It helps to reset insulin resistance, so for people who are prediabetic, that sort of thing, its really useful. It helps the immune system, so you don’t get sick as much. As soon as you start getting sick, I don’t take all of, eye of newt, toe of frog, sort of stuff. I sleep more. So, I’m like, oh I’m starting to get a sore throat. I need to sleep more. That’s, its my go to.
– [Woman] Would you reduce the training as well?
– Yes.
– [Woman] Or if it’s something of the garden variety so you leave it alone and do that?
– I’d reduce stress, your body needs your stress fighting resources to fight a virus or bacterial infection a sickness or whatever it may be. If you’re exercising hard and then having to use those resources to protein synthesis, repair muscles. It’s not going to fix the sickness. High intensity training and lack of sleep increases cortisol levels. Cortisol is a stress hormone and that takes is toll over training and potentially adrenal fatigue and other associated issues. Average eight hours of sleep every night.
