If your performance at the gym has been second-rate lately, it may be due to the lack of shut-eye you've been getting at night.

Researchers from Stanford University found that getting a proper night's sleep can improve physical performance, in addition to increasing alertness and improving mood. Citing this study, Muscle & Body magazine reports that university swimmers participated in this study, with researchers finding that those who slept enough every night for several weeks noted faster 15-meter sprint times, faster starts off the blocks, improved turn times, and increased kick strokes.

Previous studies on athletes playing football, tennis, and basketball yielded similar results. It would appear, then, that if you want to improve your game a bit or just bang out a few more reps at the gym, you'd be wise to get to bed early at night.

Source

Eating healthy costs money. Getting into better shape can also cost a good deal of coin (gym memberships, new running sneakers, etc.). But sleep? That's a freebee, yet of these three primary paths to health and wellness, this is the area where most people carry the most debt.

Not good, say researchers from Stanford University, not good at all. Not if you want to be at your best during workouts ... and just about everything else you do during your hours spent awake. Support for this assertion comes from the University of Lubeck in Germany, where researchers discovered that getting the recommended 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night can help improve creativity and memory.

With the weekend here, do yourself the favor of sleeping in -- providing you have the luxury to do so. Not only will help your performance in the gym and help you unleash your inner Picasso, but a failure to catch enough Z's can also decrease your libido, says a recent Men's Health article.

Source

A little something I read yesterday in the Late City Final edition of of the New York Post ...

Featuring a photo of aged piano man Billy Joel, 58, and his barely post-college aged new wife, Katie Lee Joel, 26, the article highlights a Stanford University study on the life-extending effects of being a sugar daddy. It turns out that when men "mate with women who are eight years younger, it increases the life span of both sexes over time."

Really? A bit incredulous, I read further, only to find that there is an actual scientific explanation for the life-extension effects of a May/December romance. To find out what it is, continue reading by clicking HERE.

Source