Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

What are the five main benefits that you get?

If you get deep REM sleep for seven, eight hours a night consistently, no interruptions, no light exposure, all the things you talk about in your other book,

Sleep Smarter.

What are the five main benefits that come for that versus, you know, interrupted sleep,

four hours of sleep, you know, staying up late with the phone, you know, having coffee late at night,

all that stuff.

I always like to connect to something visceral and people, we care about how we look.

Nobody's waking up like, I want to look so old today. I want to get my George Burns on. I want to be as old as possible.

Or I want to feel bad today about the way that I look. They're not waking up like, I just want to

look terrible and feel terrible today. In my clinical practice, I never met one person. And people

might argue these things. I never met one person. And people might argue these

things. I never met anybody who wants to be unhealthy. Every single person wants to be healthy.

Now, with that said, this is where sleep really comes into the fray because over the years, me being

a nutritionist, I really, I thought that food was everything, you know, because it was for me. It was my bridge, but there's many paths to the goal. When you're sleeping, it is the most powerful anabolic state that you can be in. You're just teeming with what we call these, quote, anti-agent hormones, you know, the release of human growth hormone, for example, that really, it's also known as the youth hormone. Yeah. You know, and also in that lane of body composition and overall health and fitness,

researchers at the University of Chicago did a very simple study. They brought folks in and they

wanted to see what would happen with their weight loss. They put them on a calorie-rested

diet, and they wanted to see what would happen with weight loss when they were well-rested

versus when they're sleep deprived. And so they put them under both conditions. They allow folks to get eight and a half hours of sleep in one phase of the study. And they tracked all their metrics, their weight loss, etc. And then they sleep-deprived them for the other phase. So they was getting eight and a half hours. Now they're getting five and a half hours. Tracked all their metrics. Same group. Same group on the same exact calorie restricted diet. Same calories. Yeah, everything.

But when they were tracked all their metrics. Same group. Same group on the same exact calorie restricted diet.

Same calories, yeah, everything. But when they were sleep deprived, when they were getting

enough sleep, they lost 55% more body fat just by sleeping more. That's crazy. They actually did

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