Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is Danny Lennon and we are here at episode 91 of the podcast. Thank you so much for taking the time

out of your day to listen to the show again. And this particular episode is going to be a shorter

format, nice and quick on one topic that I just wanted to touch on because it's been something

that you guys who are regular listeners have been asking

for a bit more of, some more of the short format solo shows that I've done in the past

and have kind of trialled out and people have been asking for a couple more in between some

of the interviews and with a pretty packed schedule of top quality guests coming on over the next month, including

Dr. Eric Ravusson, John Barardi, Velerini, Alberta Nunez.

I thought before we get into that, now would be a good time to touch on one of those topics

with a shorter format show.

And so the issue we've decided to go with was a question

a number of people had raised. And it was as it relates to sleep, but particularly how sleep

interacts with how someone's nutrition then gets affected. And this whole concept of, especially

does it, does poor sleep play a role

in appetite regulation or causing someone to make worse choices with their nutrition or making

it more likely that they're going to gain body fat in a poor or suboptimal sleep state? So I thought

I'd run through a few things. First off, I will say that

for a much more detailed dive into the whole area of sleep and how that affects the hormonal

systems of the bodies and metabolic regulation, and just how important is for both health

and performance in general.

There's two podcasts that I've done previously, one with Dan and Parody and one with Dr. Kirk Parsley,

both of which dived really deep into this whole area. And both those guys know far more

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