489: Sleep 101: Why Sleep Is the No. 1 Most Important Thing for a Better Body with Dr. Kirk Parsley
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Ted Ryce speaks with Dr. Kirk Parsley, an expert in sleep and a medical doctor who helps his patients sleep better and understand the importance of sleep for their overall health. Doc Parsley will reveal how sleep loss lowers testosterone levels, causes weight gain, makes us age faster, damages our prefrontal cortex, leads to increased stress levels, and much more. He will also share some effective strategies to improve and optimize our sleep so we can achieve the highest quality of life possible. Listen now!
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| 0:00.0 | And so 90% of what I do is lifestyle. So when I, when I'm training people, or when I'm |
| 0:12.2 | working with people, I'm working with clients, I'm trying to explain to them, this body is |
| 0:15.9 | a couple hundred thousand years old, right? It evolves to be on this planet, to be awake |
| 0:21.1 | during the day and sleep during the night. In fact, it evolves to be awake for 16 hours |
| 0:25.9 | and sleep for eight hours. You're born into that contract, just like you're born into |
| 0:29.5 | a contract that you're going to die one day. You don't, you don't get to negotiate that. |
| 0:33.7 | You need eight hours of sleep for 16 hours being awake. Everybody does. Doesn't, you can't |
| 0:38.8 | be better than that. You can't hack your way out of that. |
| 0:41.2 | Okay, I've got something exciting to share with you. Over the past few months, my team and |
| 0:46.6 | I have been working hard behind the scenes to create something special for you, my listeners. |
| 0:53.8 | If you're an executive entrepreneur or other high performer looking to lose 20 to 30 pounds |
| 0:59.1 | of fat, transform your body into do it all without giving up your favorite foods or your |
| 1:04.9 | social life in the process, then you're going to want to hear this. I've never done anything |
| 1:10.4 | like this before, but I'm confident is going to help you win big with your health in 2022. |
| 1:17.7 | So if you're excited to see what I have planned to help you, go to legendarylifepodcast.com |
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| 1:40.3 | What is up my friend? And welcome back to the legendary life podcast. Of course, I'm your |
| 1:45.3 | host, like always Ted Rice, coach to entrepreneurs executives and other high performing professionals. |
| 1:51.9 | And today I've got Dr. Kirk Parsley back on the show for new conversation about sleep. |
| 1:57.7 | Now if you don't know Dr. Kirk Parsley, if you haven't heard my other episodes with him, |
| 2:03.8 | he's a former Navy SEAL turned sleep medicine specialist and he has a very unique perspective |
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