What's up, folks? Welcome back to the Whoop podcast, where we sit down with the top athletes,

scientists, experts, and more, learn what the best in the world are doing and learn what you

can do to perform your best. All right. Woop is on a mission to unlock human performance.

I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop.

And this week we got a great episode.

We're going to go deep on sleep debt and how sleep deprivation affects your body.

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Woop.com, use the code Wilt. Our VP of Performance, Fearless Leader, Kristen Holmes, is back

and joined by sleep expert Dr. Allison Brager. Dr. Brayger is a neurobiologist and a major with the United

States Army, and her research has covered survival in extreme environments under sleep deprivation

and stress. So those of you who think you work a little too much and have trouble sleeping,

these are going to be some extreme environments that we're talking about. She sits on fatigue,

management, and neuroenhancement working groups for NATO, the Office of the Army Surgeon General,

and a variety of government agencies, including the Department of Defense and NASA. She's also a member

of the Woop Women's Performance

Collective. Kristen and Dr. Brigger discuss how to understand sleep debt and sleep need,

groundbreaking whoop research about how sleep debt affects our next day cognitive functioning,

what we know about banking sleep before anticipated periods of

less sleep, why fragmented sleep can have such a negative effect on us, and everything

you need to know about caffeine and how it impacts the chemicals in your body.

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