After doing all the stuff related to health span I have come to the conclusion that sleep is the most important factor and I have been trying different experiments with sleep for quite some time. About a decade ago I tried different polyphasic sleep patterns and the results went up to Uberman which is like twenty five minutes of wakefulness and five to seven minutes of sleep and it was quite a weird challenge but it was revealing in terms of how my mental state works because I did not feel exhausted or sleepy while I was awake and there is so much about sleep that we cannot uncover.

In terms of performance one of the things I heard about a few years back was from Arnold when he said sleep faster by which he meant that just like you can work harder you can sleep harder so instead of sleeping for eight hours try to compress your sleep into six hours and try to shut your eyes and go to sleep as soon as possible instead of tossing and turning but it never worked for me because I never felt relaxed or less stressed. I was sleep deprived and when I start getting sleep deprived it just exacerbates the problem as I keep sleeping for fewer and fewer hours going down to even three hours which makes me completely groggy and irritated all the time.

I recently came upon a study where they said that creatine might actually help your energy levels if you are sleep deprived and that made me take notice so I started taking creatine first thing in the morning and it seems to work wonders for me in terms of energy levels because the irritability and the low energy completely go away and the amount of energy it gives me is quite amazing. Maybe when Arnold says to sleep faster he was able to perform at the optimum level because he was taking creatine at three in the morning and the effects of sleep deprivation were not so much for him but for now I am going to keep taking creatine first thing in the morning if I have not had my seven or eight hours of sleep.

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