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Hey guys, Dr. Roushaw.

I just want to give you your quick fast facts on this episode about sleep and all the fun stuff associated with it.

The three most important factors associated with sleep are duration, intensity, and timing,

meaning how long, how well, and how consistent.

For optimum sleep, it's important that you consistently sleep between six to seven to nine hours,

meaning you don't want to sleep less than six or seven, and you don't

want to consistently sleep more than nine, as we'll elaborate on in this episode, if you're

consistently over nine or below six or seven, that's been linked to many diseases. More sleep

may not be good for you. And there's also a reason for that we expand upon in the episode.

It's important that you sleep soundly while you do sleep, and that you sleep and wake at a roughly around the same time every night.

Poor sleep has been associated with cardiovascular disease, weight gain, obesity, diabetes, and many other health conditions like neurological complications.

If you find you consistently need to sleep more than nine hours or you consistently can't

get or stay asleep for six to seven hours, then you should investigate the underlying cause

or maybe an underlying illness or imbalance that's driving that.

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