Sports on the Joe Rogan Experience
3 fact-checked claims across 2 episodes · Apr 2018 to Feb 2024 · updated Jul 20, 2026
Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.
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- Matthew Walker (2)
- Dr. Phil (1)
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“If you're getting six hours of sleep or less, your time to exhaustion drops by up to 30%. So you could spend all of your time training for a 10-round fight, pe…”
Walker claims that sleeping 6 hours or less causes an athlete's time to physical exhaustion to drop by up to 30%, using a 10-round fight as an example.
“People getting 9 hours versus 5 hours, there was almost a 60% increase in probability of injury risk during a season.”
Walker claims that athletes sleeping 5 hours a night versus 9 hours have almost a 60% increased injury risk over a season, describing it as a perfect linear relationship.
“as soon as she reported the science, and actually she didn't do the science, she did a meta-analysis of like 50 studies and said, overall here's what it says. …”
Dr. Phil claims a researcher who published a meta-analysis of about 50 studies on transgender athletes and sports performance was labeled transphobic and forced out of her position for reporting the science.