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Sleep, Recovery & Wearables: Evidence-Based Strategies with Prof. Shona Halson

Sleep, Recovery & Wearables: Evidence-Based Strategies with Prof. Shona Halson

Update: 2025-09-29
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What really drives better sleep and recovery?


Prof. Shona Halson - one of the world’s most respected experts in the field - shares what decades of research actually supports, and what to ignore.


You’ll learn:

• Why 8 hours is a useful guideline, but consistency matters more

• How naps and “non-sleep deep rest” can help (and when they hurt)

• Which wearable data is reliable vs. misleading

• The role of hormones, perimenopause, and menstrual symptoms in sleep

• Why evening meals, alcohol, and caffeine disrupt rest more than we think

• How stress, low energy availability, and overtraining impair recovery

• The truth about compression, ice baths, and sauna use

• When protein timing and presleep nutrition really make a difference


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