I’ve always been big on sleep.
It’s been there for me throughout my athletic experience and served as the foundation for my health. Whenever I can trace back to some of my worst mistakes or bad days, sleep deprivation is there to rear its ugly head.
As with any field of study, there are fundamentals to an amazing night of rest.
A handful of crucial principles to follow to maximize the QUALITY and QUANTITY of your rest. If you align yourself with these principles, being a great sleeper becomes second nature.
You no longer have to believe in any self-defeating narrative which steals your power and rest. There are solutions to your troubles with sleep.
I want to point out some incredible facts and studies below to drive the point home.
Sleep Deprivation Makes You Drunk
I found this shocking at first, but it quickly made sense looking back on my experience with sleep deprivation.
This is dangerous considering how many people are driving while sleep deprived.
Blood Pressure, All-Cause Mortality & Heart Disease
When you sleep, your blood pressure goes down while the body regulates and heals the body, but deprivation causes blood pressure to stay elevated.
High blood pressure is one of the leading risks for heart disease or stroke.
1 in 3 adults have it (about 75 million Americans).
Furthermore, the World Health Organization classifies night shift work as a carcinogen. The quickest way to die is to chronically deprive yourself of rest. There’s a reason we call working late into the night the ‘graveyard’ shift.
Knowing all this, the most devastating thing you can do for overall heart health and function is miss out on sleep to varying degrees.
You must prioritize your rest.
Brain Damage
In sleep deprived rats, they’ve demonstrated brain damage caused by a severe lack of neurogenesis (regrowth of new brain neurons).
This stems from rampant levels of cortisol due to lack of rest.
For ethical reasons, we can’t reproduce these studies in humans. But, we can look at the effects of sleep disorders.
People who have fatal familial insomnia die within a few months.
Morvan’s syndrome (an autoimmune disease) is another example. It destroys the brain's potassium channels which leads to severe insomnia and death.
The Reason We Sleep
There are countless reason why we sleep, but two stand out above the rest:
It’s when your body repairs itself (connective tissue, ligaments, joints, injuries, reduction of chronic inflammation, fighting infections)
It’s when your brain cleans up cellular garbage through the glymphatic system
I’ve written a tweet on deep sleep and the glymphatic system in the past which you can check out below.
Anabolic Rest
Sleep is the primary anabolic state of the human body.
The less of it you get, the further your body goes into a continuous, hormonally depleted catabolic state.
Newborns all the way up to 10 year olds need 10-18 hours of rest for this reason.. because they’re growing.
Sleep Loss On Performance
Everything gets worse..
Quicker to exhaustion
Reduced glucose metabolism
More brain fog due to chronic inflammation
Slower mental processing speed
Inability to focus
You get the picture.
Fix Your Sleep In 14 Days
Today marks the first time I’m jumping into group coaching.
I want 5 gentlemen who want to fix their sleep for good in 14 days.
This coaching is going to exclusively deal with your rest and addressing the lifestyle problems holding you back from sleeping like a baby for better performance in all areas of your life.
Here’s how it works:
We’ll all be communicating in a Telegram channel (You have access to me 24/7 for that 14 day period)
I will schedule one call with each of you to get a handle of what you’re struggling with, what you’ve tried, etc
From there, we begin implementing the framework I use for my 1-on-1 coaching clients in regards to sleep
You should expect to see a massive difference within a few days to a week max.
By the end of the 14 days, you’ll be a different person.
The investment is a one time $249 to get in.
Reply back to this email or DM me if you want in right now before spots get taken.
Much love,
Zaid