Dr. David Geier is an orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist in Charleston, South Carolina and Charlotte, North Carolina. He helps athletes and active people feel and perform their best, regardless of age, injuries and medical history. He has been featured in major media publications and shows over 2,500 times throughout his career.
If you want to lose weight, try to get more sleep each night. In a study published last week in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers studied 80 obese adults who slept less than six and a half hours each night. They counseled the subjects about how to get better sleep and recommended they spend a total 8.5 hours in bed each night, aiming to get about one more hour of sleep. The subjects kept their diets and exercise the same. The researchers found that just by sleeping an extra hour each night, the subjects ate 270 fewer calories each day. They estimated that if people routinely slept an hour more each night, those 270 fewer calories each day could add up to a loss of 26 pounds over 3 years.
Through the stories of a dozen athletes whose injuries and recovery advanced the field (including Joan Benoit, Michael Jordan, Brandi Chastain, and Tommy John), Dr. Geier explains how sports medicine makes sports safer for the pros, amateurs, student-athletes, and weekend warriors alike.
