Ep 38 - Decoding Sleep for Runners
Episode description
Sleep is such a basic need that it affects our mood, efficiency, longevity, and most importantly it improves our running performance. Sleep is also required for maintaining and nurturing our relationships, growth of society, and many more intrinsic necessities.
Sleep releases hormones that aid in muscle protein synthesis, thus repairing the cellular level damage from exercise, it improves our reflexes, decision making capacity and overall keeps our mind and body working at an optimal level.
In this episode we will be discussing the fascinating world of sleep and its impact on life, health and more importantly running performance.
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Sudhir Kumar.
Dr. Sudhir Kumar is a neurologist. He has been in medical practice for about 30 years. He enjoys his work and loves solving complex neurological problems. He treats patients from across the world. His motto in medical practice is: Prompt diagnosis of disease, early initiation of treatment and offer the best treatment at the lowest possible cost.
Dr Sudhir took up running at age 49. He loves training at lower heart rates. At 49, before he started running, he weighed about 100 Kg. Running has transformed him. He is very active on “X” & regularly posts about neurology, medicine, fitness, running and nutrition.
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