Sleep and Resilience / Joe De Sena and Dr. Kirk Parsley
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Sleep is the platform that all good health sits upon, says Dr. Kirk Parsley. A Navy SEAL who became an MD "Doc Parsley" found that almost all the high-performing patients he worked with had sleep issues. The more he studied it, the more he found out about the importance of sleep for resilience and performance. Today he talks with Joe De Sena, Spartan founder, and CEO, who has always said "I'll sleep when I'm dead." Dr. Parsley lectures worldwide on sleep, wellness, and hormonal optimization and is currently completing a book on sleep and health optimization.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, sleep help build resilience. |
| 0:03.4 | So I used to say there's four pillars. |
| 0:05.0 | Now I say there's three pillars. |
| 0:06.9 | There's exercise, nutrition, and stress, |
| 0:08.8 | and they sit on the platform of sleep. |
| 0:10.5 | Sleep is what makes you resilient, |
| 0:12.3 | because deep sleep is the most anabolic point in your days. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast with Joe Descena, founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:24.8 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 0:26.4 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course. |
| 0:33.0 | We will teach you here on a Spartan Up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 0:38.0 | Doc Parsley served as a Navy SEAL before becoming a medical doctor. |
| 0:41.0 | Today, he is a renowned expert on sleep. He joins Joe |
| 0:44.5 | de Cessena to talk about how to optimize your sleep and why that's critically |
| 0:48.3 | important. Do you want to be ready for anything? Download Joe's free ebook at Spartan.com |
| 0:55.1 | slash ready for anything. |
| 0:58.1 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by FITAAD. Race Dirty, recover clean |
| 1:02.1 | with FITA |
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