"Sleep and the Athlete" with Professor Neil Walsh
We Do Science - The Sports Nutrition Podcast
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The Sleep Questionnaire - What's the Quality of Your Sleep Last Night?
In a recent study, nurses who slept less than five hours had no greater risk of pneumonia. So there seemed to be some protection provided against respiratory illness in those individuals who did really short sleep. But this raises the spectre that actually we need to be pushing less than just the duration recommendation and considering individual sleep needs.
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