Alan Aragon
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Sleep is the X factor for a lot of the success or failure in programs because when you don't get enough sleep, not only does it kind of affect the obvious stuff, meaning your energy to be physically active and certainly your energy to engage in any kind of progressive training program, but it also increases your appetite and your cravings, your hunger levels.
It increases your cravings for calorie-dense, hyperpalatable foods.
That's what sleep-deprived people mostly reach for almost instinctively.
There's some very interesting research showing that subjects who are sleep-deprived consume across studies, on average, about 200 to 300 calories more per day while they're sleep-deprived.
Yeah, and the interesting thing is it went the other way too.
They took a group of habitual less than six and a half hour sleepers.
And they put them through a coaching and training, sort of this education program on how to improve their sleep hygiene.
And the goal was to add two hours of sleep a night.
So they wanted to bring them up to, I believe, eight and a half hours or so.
Seven hours of sleep appears to be this sort of threshold where, you know, below that it's,
The outcomes are somewhat adverse.
So they trained these folks to bring their sleep average from less than six and a half hours up to eight and a half.
And they ended up eating about 260-ish, 270-ish calories less per day.
which is pretty dang significant in the scheme of things, especially when you consider that while they were sleep deprived, they probably had some sort of compromise in the amount of energy output that they had.
through either the exercise pathways or the non-exercise pathways, just lower spontaneous physical activity and less capacity for purposeful physical activity.
So that's sort of the basis of everything.
Get the sleep right.
Oh, yeah.
Bidirectional badness, basically.
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