Dr. Jay Wiles

The answer is no.

I think a TS typically says around 120 to 150 minutes.

Yeah, per week.

Blood volume is a huge contributor or influencer to heart rate variability.

So you don't want to be dehydrated, but you also don't want to overhydrate.

When you were mentioning all that, the one thing that was coming to my mind is that I was thinking, yes, as long as sleep.

Sleep is the canary in the coal mine.

When we start to have significant disruptions in sleep, sleep efficiency, the overall quality of our sleep, when all of those things are happening, it's a signal.

It's a signal that the nervous system is experiencing a significant amount of dysregulation.

And so if I had to think about

like a pyramid of health and wellness interventions, or not even interventions, but a pyramid of health and wellness factors or variables that people should focus on if they want to have the greatest longevity and overall sense of health and wellness, the bottom or the base of that pyramid, without a doubt, I don't think there's a close second, is sleep.

Because we know that sleep, its intention is reparation.

It is repairing the nervous system.

We receive insults all throughout the day, right?

So whether it's psychological insults or physiological insults, there's insults that we are incurring at all times.

And our nervous system is doing the best it can.

It's like 24 by 7 security.

It's trying to attend to everything, but it gets beat up.

And especially as we experience more chronic stressors day in, day out, week in, week out, month after month, year after year, decade after decade.

Now we've got all this compounding stress that's kind of living kind of within the nervous system.