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Get sufficient sleep duration
Get enough total sleep to transition through slow-wave sleep early in the night and REM sleep later in the night; even being short by about an hour can reduce REM sleep and disrupt metabolism.
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“So again, all of this points to the fact that we need to be getting sufficient quality and duration of sleep. So if you're sleep deprived, even by an hour or so, you're going to get far less rapid eye movement sleep because rapid eye movement sleep is what occurs toward the end of a sleep night.”
huberman · Optimize & Control Your Brain Chemistry to Improve Health & Performance | Huberman Lab Podcast #80 · Jul 11, 2022 · 9:21 · open ↗
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