Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Like what do you do or what do you coach people to do as well?

You mentioned a couple of things.

I just want to ask you about one to sleep because, you know.

There are many times when people – there are some people that get chronic, like, four hours of sleep.

They're stressed, their work schedule, I don't – maybe they're, like, a new parent, whatever, you know.

But, you know, generally speaking, like, let's say you are getting poor sleep because of something social or just an event, like –

It's not like a chronic, chronic thing forever, but like you even get a couple of poor nights of sleep.

That's when I think that really you need to make sure you really do focus on getting a workout.

And I don't mean go and run a marathon, but like go and like do a 20-minute interval or even 10-minute, whatever, something, you know.

So you said sleep is important for lowering the risk of injury, generally speaking.

And pain, yeah.

And pain, yes.

But if you're getting a poor night's sleep or a couple poor nights' sleep...

Do you still think people should go and train or is the risk for, let's say, injury with like resistance training, is it going to be significantly higher or should you just go and lift some weights?

I like that term, the auto-regulate, because it's really applicable to so many different situations that people are in.

But since you brought up the women, there's also a whole class of women that are post-menopausal.

And some of them maybe perhaps haven't lifted weights before.

They've noticed that even though they're eating the same –

calorie-wise, that as they hit menopause, for some reason, they're getting a little more belly fat without necessarily taking in more calories.

Like, you know, there's something that's happening that they're not, it's not the same.