{"id":172459,"date":"2025-11-10T03:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/172459\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T03:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:10:11","slug":"cardiologist-with-20-years-of-experience-says-stop-doing-this-1-thing-if-you-want-to-lose-weight-and-live-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/172459\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiologist with 20 years of experience says \u2018stop doing this 1 thing if you want to lose weight and live longer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Weight loss can be an uphill battle. It requires discipline and adopting healthy habits on your part. However, even if you stop eating high-calorie foods, exercise regularly<\/a>, lift weights 3-4 times a week, and walk 10K steps regularly, you might not be able to achieve your goals if you don’t address one key factor: poor sleep patterns.<\/p>\n

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Dr Sanjay Bhojraj, a US-based interventional cardiologist <\/a>and functional medicine doctor, shared an Instagram post on November 6, elaborating on how he and his patients struggled to lose weight due to poor sleep. Here’s how:<\/p>\n

Poor sleep can hamper your weight loss process?<\/p>\n

In the post, titled \u2018STOP doing this if you want to lose weight<\/a> and live longer\u2019, Dr Bhojraj confessed that he has been a cardiologist for over 20 years, and even he used to think eating less and exercising more was the key to healthy weight loss.<\/p>\n

He highlighted that while losing weight or helping his patients do so, he was doing everything \u2018right\u2019, including<\/p>\n