Dr. Layne Norton

Cause I was physically noticeably stronger in the gym and I was even sleeping a little bit less.

And I realized, I kind of realized, wow, I'm not walking on eggshells all the time.

My body isn't like, I'm not like tensed up all the time.

And this is backed up by the research that it's, there is a psychological, there is a physical toll that psychological stress takes, right?

And so managing that has been huge.

In fact, I joke with people that I have become much more Zen, not because it improved the quality of my life.

It improved my lifting.

So I became even more Zen, which improved the quality of my life, which then had like a positive kind of effect on everything, right?

And the other thing is sleep.

So sleep is a big, big lever for acute injury and for pain management.

So there was a study in, I think, Army, where they looked at four hours of sleep a night versus eight hours of sleep a night.

So people either had to get, yeah, I think it was four versus eight.

And I forget the duration.

I think it was two or three months.

And they found that people who were sleeping four hours a night

had a 236% increased risk of acute injury versus people who slept eight hours a night.

That's a massive difference.

And people who sleep more have less pain and it, you can just bundle it up all into that kind of like stress management.

The long story is it is about your overall recovery status and psychological stress, your beliefs about pain, um,

your sleep, all that stuff impacts it.