 If you want to lose weight, get better sleep. It strongly affects behaviors. In fact, I pulled up a meta analysis and it found a 41% increased obesity risk among adults who slept fewer than seven hours a night. It changes your behaviors, it changes your cravings. You're less likely to numb yourself, you're less likely to overeat. Why this is so important to make this connection if this is you? When you know that you had the poor night's sleep, it's easier to fight that. So knowing that because I didn't get good sleep, there's gonna come a time today where I'm gonna want something weird, like Jack in the Box tacos. I haven't thought about that since I was 22 years old. Like seriously though, if I have these weird cravings for junk type foods, it's always been correlated with a bad night of sleep. There's a lot of reasons why this makes a big difference. Optimal sleep is more likely to produce a hormone profile that's healthy. It changes catecholamine production. Sleep can affect serotonin and dopamine. And so studies across the board show that people crave hyper-palatable foods, something that makes them feel better.