Dr. Michael Grandner

If your question isn't, is this bad, but could it be better?

Then you might need to go to somebody who has more experience on the performance side, who can read those numbers, read those tea leaves and say, yeah, no, this is totally fine.

I couldn't make these numbers better if I wanted to, or we could do something about this.

Yeah.

I mean, think of sleep is sleep should be a joy.

Sleep should be your friend.

Sleep is what helps you face the next day with as much resources and resilience as possible.

That a colleague of mine, Teresa Aurora, she led this project that I, that I also helped on.

We looked at, we basically scoured the entire medical literature on resilience and sleep.

Because everyone talks about not getting good sleep is bad, but is getting good sleep good?

And basically what we found was across the board, people, if you can sleep better, your resilience will improve.

You can improve your level of resilience, whether it's physical or emotional or whatever.

It was defined however the study, whatever the study defined it.

Any study, if you improve your sleep, you can improve your degree of resilience.

You can improve your reaction time.

You can go from normal to better.

You can go from good to great.

There will be a ceiling, but...

especially athletes, especially younger athletes, like, like adolescents, young adults, you know, most people in elite sport are under 30.

Younger people will benefit more from more sleep than older people will, to be honest.