r/science • u/chrisdh79 • Oct 09 '24

Neuroscience Your Brain Changes Based on What You Did Two Weeks Ago | A workout or restless night from two weeks ago could still be affecting you—positively or negatively—today.

https://www.newsweek.com/brain-changes-neuroscience-exercise-sleep-health-two-weeks-1965107
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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24

Good question, one related bit of information that might help: i saw Dr.Rhonda Patrick describe a study in which they concluded that if you sleep 6 or less hours a night you are insulin resistant when you first wake up, however, if you exercise as soon as you wake up it can stop the insulin resistance. If i remember correctly, there was also a correlation with mortality related to cardiac issues in this same group (people that sleep 6 or less hours).

She essentially said that exercise can erase some of the negative effects of poor sleep.

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u/doyouevenIift Oct 09 '24

Uh oh, ive been sleeping 6 hours or less a night for 10 years. Guess I’m in for some issues later in life

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u/squeasy_2202 Oct 09 '24

It's not too late to make a shift in your sleeping habits. Sleep is an amazing medicine.

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u/cjsolx Oct 09 '24

You can't undo the last 10 years. But you can still do the best for yourself moving forward.

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u/Competitive_Success5 Oct 10 '24

You're memory might already be impaired from that, so maybe you're misremembering how little sleep you got

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u/waterinabottle MS | Protein Chemistry | Biophysics Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

Dr. Rhonda Patrick

immediate user block

eta:

shes not exactly a quack, more like quack-adjacent. She has a LOT of fans. She is educated in nutritional science but the fans generally are not. She calls herself a scientist but she is a pretty bad scientist at best. She says a lot of reasonable things but also a lot of unreasonable things. She sometimes cites her sources, but a lot of the time they are not high quality citations (sometimes they are even pseudoscience). She is also very prone to being a contrarian and a lot of what she says sounds somewhat reasonable on a surface level but if you dig deeper you'll see that she is either cherry picking information or has completely misunderstood the previous research on the subject matter. A lot of what she says is not crazy and its easy to understand for people with no education in nutrition science and she generally comes across as trustworthy. However, she uses that trust as a trojan horse for her less scientifically rigorous ideas. This is why she is dangerous, she uses her education as a marketing tool, mixes good information with misinformation, and says that she is giving you information that your doctor is not privy to. What ends up happening is that most of her fans just accept what she says without questioning it, even if her advice is actually bad advice.

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u/NoamLigotti Oct 09 '24

Is she a quack/grifter? I'm unfamiliar.

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u/ZEEZUSCHRIST Oct 09 '24

Did she say what kind of exercise? I’m assuming cardio

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24

I do believe it was specific to cardio, but i didn't want to add that detail as I'm not 100 percent on that one.