"America's team" is welcoming a new emphasis on rest and recovery, a strategic choice to help elite athletes rebound from the demands of high performance.
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"Sleep is probably the single most effective thing that you can do each and every day to reset the physical health of the body," says Matthew Walker, PhD, professor of neuroscience and biomedical engineering at UT Dallas and Center for BrainHealth. "All of the science now, I think, is convincing teams that often you're working in small fractions of an edge in terms of win or lose, in terms of do I get a gold medal, or do I just listen to someone else's national anthem playing?"
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