Dr. Matt Walker

Again, it's not about the rule, it's about explaining it.

Because when you explain it, at first it sounds contradictory and paradoxical.

When you understand it, it hopefully sounds logical and actionable.

So that would be the first suggestion.

I'm so glad you brought it up.

It's a fantastic study.

And Rhonda and I, I think even tried to discuss it some years ago on a show, but I like it because it does offer some degree of actionable hope and a strategy.

Blood sugar, absolutely critical.

It is very sensitive to sleep.

When you don't get enough, it goes in bad directions.

You used a very specific word, cleverly so.

That word was partially.

at first you hear or read that study, and Rhonda was never suggesting this too, I'm not saying that, you think, well, if it offsets blood sugar, and the study was saying exercise can nullify a lack of sleep,

you conflate that single outcome benefit with the idea that, well, but maybe it doesn't actually compensate for the deficits in immune function or cardiovascular disease concerns or my hormonal health or my learning and memory or my emotional and brain health.

Maybe it does, but maybe it doesn't.

So I think I would always just caution people to saying when you hear a study like that, it's very natural to think, oh, that must mean that it translates to everything else in my body and everything else in my brain.

It may, but it also may not be.

Okay.

We should do.

So I think other suggestions I would have after do nothing is,