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7. Unlock the sleep-nutrition relationship

Nov 27, 2023

22:54

Sleep and nutrition are two critically important factors we need to maintain when it comes to living a high performance lifestyle.

But what many of us don’t realise that these two factors do not operate in isolation. In fact the management and maintenance of sleep can often have a positive, or negative effect on our nutrition and the same is true for nutrition’s effect on sleep.

So for this episode we are going to be taking a close look at the relationship between nutrition and sleep and discovering how we can use one to improve the other and the traps that we can fall into.

In this episode I share:

- The misconception we often make about the connection between sleep and nutrition

- Just how crucial nutrition is for a good night’s sleep

- Why people overeat in the evening and why it is bad

- Why changing your food choices patterns is not about willpower or dedication

- Why a key strategy to help you leverage nutrition is to sleep better

- What markers to look for to determine if nutrition is affecting your sleep

- The role caffeine and alcohol have in our sleep

- The three main ways poor sleep can impact our nutrition

- How poor sleep physiologically makes us crave food and caffeine

Key Quotes

“When we're sleeping poorly we're more likely to be craving sweet foods.”