Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

Why You Should Aim for a Quality Sleep

25 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Short transcript excerpt from a YouTube talk stressing that adequate, quality sleep makes it easier to make healthier daily choices—less likely to eat ultra-processed or addictive foods, more likely to exercise—and that tracking results with wearables reinforces good behavior. The speaker positions sleep as the foundational step in lifestyle change and cautions that behavior change requires effort.

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And when you have enough sleep, you wake up in the morning feeling refreshed and it's easier to do better choices throughout the day. If you, if you wake up and you're already behind, you know, you don't feel refreshed, you're, you're tired already that I used to be. Then you have the chocolate, then you skip the exercise, then you take the easy choice because you don't, you cannot muster the energy to do the good choice. So, so it all starts with sleep. So the Pulse Cure expedition in the Pulse Cure. Because changing your life is hard, you know, even with these tools. So you have to brace yourself for some real effort and you start, you know, with sleep and of course staying away from ultra processed food and particularly the food that is addictive, the ones that you find, you know, at the end of the supermarket, you know, when you're tired after making all the choices, that's the food that you really don't want. And when you can see the result on your wearables is so much easier to take the good choice.