Ron talks about sleep and how it is vital to have it in order to keep your body in balance. And not just 3 hours of sleep. 6 hours of sleep is better. 8 hours is best. If you don’t get this amount of sleep, the “tonin” family will get out of whack, which can affect your weight, productivity, and overall health & well-being. Get your sleep!

Just finished a book called The End of Illness. Pretty good book. Got some interesting perspectives. One of the things I wanted to do in the blog is to expose you to new things. My book, of course, which will be available soon on eBook, which was hard copy. It’s really super cool, super, but also, it’s my job to see what crap is out there. But, anyway, I finished this book by David B. Agus, MD. There’s a great thing in here. One of my students was talking about how she would lose weight a couple of weeks and then would stall. She was eating right, and she was doing all the things I asked her to do. She was doing all the exercise that we were doing together. She was taking care of business, but she wasn’t sleeping. She was getting maybe three hours, she’d get up, work on her computer, go back and try and go back to sleep. Gee, what could go wrong?

I was finally able to discover and find some really solid information here about sleeping and our circadian rhythms. Sleep Keeps Your Body in Balance is the name of the chapter. Really, he talks about some basic things here that I already knew, and that you should instinctively know, anyway. Guess what? You should sleep.

Establishing a consistent pattern really helps your body. Your melatonin, your serotonin, all these tonins with other big, long names, the tonin family, all stabilize. They all work together to help keep your body running the way it should.

When you start depriving yourself of sleep, your body goes into a reactive mode. It starts saving things. It’s like if you starve yourself, your body starts saving fat. If you don’t sleep, your body starts conserving fat, because its an old primal instinct where your cortisol spikes and all this crazy stuff happens.

The bottom line is, is that like everything else we’ve talked about and everything else I’m teaching you, it’s all this simple. It’s a pushup. It’s a toe touch. It’s getting eight hours of sleep a night instead of staying up late watching TV for no good reason.

My cameraman and my good friend, Gary, he’s a working musician also. He definitely feels it when he comes to work out with me on a Saturday morning when he’s had to play Friday night, whereas during the week, when he can get to bed at 10:00, 10:30 every night, he’s productive as heck. But weekends are hard.

Start keeping track of your sleep patterns. I promise you, if you just make more of an attempt to go to bed at the same time and get up at the same time. I go to bed at 10:00 every night. I get up at 6:00 every morning. It’s that simple. My weight doesn’t fluctuate. I feel great, and I get all the stuff done that I want.

I don’t sit for two or three hours at night watching some dumbass TV show, the Kardashians or all these crapola talk shows. Forget it, man. Read a book, then go to bed.