Why LeBron James values this 1 health habit above all to stay fit at 40

James Julian
Famously Healthy
Published in
5 min readApr 5, 2023

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A year or two back, I decided to try the Calm meditation app.

I was surprised one day to see a familiar name and voice pop into the feed, delivering some of the latest sleep and mindset meditations.

On the one hand, it’s not exactly the platform you’d expect to see one of history’s greatest basketball players on.

On the other, I probably shouldn’t have been all that surprised.

It’s possible that LeBron James is also the world’s most famous sleep enthusiast.

LeBron James
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Diet and exercise only go so far

When people talk about fitness, they typically hone in exclusively on diet and exercise.

Do these exercises, do or don’t eat these types of food, that sort of thing.

But few people talk about what may be an even more important factor in overall health: sleep.

Studies have shown that sleep is crucial to your major physiological functioning and that poor sleep has powerful and wide-ranging negative effects on your physical and mental health.

Honestly, there are almost too many to list, but if you’re interested in digging deeper, you can check out this article that outlines 11 problems caused

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