Hello, folks. Welcome back to the WOOP podcast. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of WOOP, where we are on a mission to unlock human performance. As many of you know, listening to this podcast, we love at WOOP to do research and important research, especially in the past year as it relates

to COVID-19. So we've got an amazing podcast for you on that front. First, I want to remind you that you

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your health and performance. That is at WOOP.com. Use the code Will Ahmed. On this week's

podcast, we detail the findings of an important WOOP research effort, the COVID resilience project.

That's right.

We collaborated with leading scientists at Harvard, Austin Health, and Australia's Monash

University to learn how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted our members' physical and mental health.

We tracked the data of nearly 5,000 WOOP members before the

pandemic and during the pandemic to see how their bodies adapted to the changes going on in the

world. These volunteers also undertook surveys from the COVID resilience project. What we found was really, really fascinating,

especially as it relates to sleep and mental health. And this podcast gets into it in great detail.

Those who slept sufficiently before the pandemic were less likely to experience a mental

health decline, even if they slept less during the

pandemic.

So essentially, those who got more sleep before the pandemic occurred were more resilient

going into the pandemic.

And then we're not just talking about sleeping for long enough.

We also found that sleep consistency, so going to bed and waking up at the same

time, was a better predictor of mental health resilience during the pandemic than sleep

duration. So we've talked a lot on this podcast about the importance of sleep consistency,

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