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If you're familiar with the name Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, there's a lot more to it than the former First Lady of Canada. A best-selling author, celebrated public speaker, and a passionate mental health advocate, Sophie has championed gender equality, female empowerment, youth self-esteem, and the importance of physical activity for over two decades.

In her first book, Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other, Sophie explores the science behind brain health, emotional intelligence, and our unique emotional signatures, drawing on her personal journey and interviews with a wide range of experts in neuroscience, mindfulness, mental health and more. She candidly shares her own struggles with learning to love herself, and it's this vulnerability that makes it such a special read.

Between some serious heart-to-heart topics and a few giggles, we discussed:

• The root cause of stress as a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment – i.e. being "here" and wanting to be "there"
• As women, we don't have patience with ourselves, we’re not taught we are worthy of rest
• Women who put their own needs last have a substantially greater chance of suffering from autoimmune diseases like MS, fibromyalgia and lupus
• The rhythm of love is slow – how can we truly love when we are stressed and our energy is frenetic and panicked?
• The importance of unstructured play in every relationship
• Don't miss the amazing breathwork exercise Sophie leads at the end of our chat! Tap into the vagus nerve and calm the F down

Sign up for Sophie's newsletter, and more resources here!

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Website - https://sophiegregoiretrudeau.com

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Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SophieGregoireTrudeau

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Big news: I wrote a book! Tuning Up: A Healthy Tweak-A-Week For Your Journey on the Highway To Well is available now! Check it out here.

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Is removing dairy fat from our diets the culprit behind why we are now living sicker than we were in the 1990s? And what do dolphins have to do with human longevity? Fair questions.

A new supplement called Fatty15 may have been on your radar recently, there's a good reason to pay attention. It’s a groundbreaking product of pure C15:0, the first essential fatty acid to be found in almost 100 years, and said to be the key nutrient for longevity. And my guest today discovered it!

Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson is a veterinary epidemiologist with over 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 70 patents. She discovered the health benefits of C15:0 while working for the US Navy to continually improve the long-term health of Navy bottlenose dolphins. While seeking to understand why some dolphins were aging at healthier and slower rates than others, she was able to identify which molecules predicted the healthiest aging dolphins, and discovered C15:0 as a healthy saturated fatty acid, the first essential fatty acid to be found in almost 100 years and the key to human longevity, which she details in her new book, The Longevity Nutrient.

We Discuss:

• The humanitarian role of dolphins in the US. Navy
• How dolphins & humans have co-evolved to share genetic similarities
• Grass-fed dairy has 2x as much C:15 as corn-fed
• Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease didn’t exist before 1980 and now it affects 1 in 3 people - what's the theory behind this?
• The difference between healthy saturated vs unsaturated fatty acids
• IMPORTANT: If we don’t have enough C:15 in our cells, the aging process is ACCELERATED

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Big news: I wrote a book! Tuning Up: A Healthy Tweak-A-Week For Your Journey on the Highway To Well is available now! Check it out here.

Want more goodies? Get a weekly dose of wellness wisdom in your inbox, subscribe to the All Too Well newsletter. It's free!

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Quick reminder that I'm here to give you tools to help you get through stressful times! Starting like, now. Last week's newsletter had some great nuggets on breathwork techniques to help you self-regulate as fast as possible. Here's a link to that issue.

And, big news: I wrote a book! Check it out here.

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Not just for the mamas and the papas! This conversation with pediatrician and child health expert Dr. Tanya Altmann is jam-packed with useful information and insights that I only wish we had had when WE were growing up. Gen X might have been able to conquer the world if only we had focused on drinking more water... :)

WE DISCUSS

• We eat differently now, we play differently now, even our food and water is different now than when we were kids – so there are new rules for health and nutrition.
• Micronutrient testing as a course of action when there are no other explanations for symptoms
• Melatonin for kids: yay or nay? The answer is not simple.
• Nasal sinus rinses can shorten the duration of a cold by TWO DAYS
• The best herbs and natural preventions for colds and flu
• Signs to look for in young kids and infants, when they can’t communicate for themselves.
• Picky eaters and how to manage their preferences, and their possible nutrient deficiencies
• It’s time for everyone, adults and kids to embrace more prunes!
• Attention kids born in the 70s and 80s – you may need a new MMR vaccine

Visit www.curehydration.com to shop Dr. Altmann's hydration essentials for kids and adults – stick packs, bulk jars, and more

Cure Kids is now rolling out nationwide at 500+ Whole Foods Market stores and five additional products from Cure Hydration’s core lineup will roll out in Whole Foods stores in April.

A UCLA-trained pediatrician and working mom, Dr. Tanya is a nationally recognized child health expert with 25 years of experience caring for children. She is the author of several best-selling parenting books. As a regular child health expert for numerous news programs and talk shows, Dr. Tanya communicates complicated medical issues into easily understood concepts, discusses breaking medical news stories, and tackles controversial parenting issues. She started Calabasas Pediatric Wellness Center to provide personalized and integrative comprehensive pediatric healthcare.

RESOURCES

Dr. Tanya Altmann

Instagram

Cure Hydration

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Unexplained hip pain? Shoulders don't quite move the way they used to? What other ailments can we expect when we're least expecting them?

Returning to the pod is Holistic Physical Therapist Patricia Ladis, my trusted expert on all things related to moving our bodies, in particular our lady bodies.

We assume that only when we're injured do we need to pay attention to pain. But pain can be often a message from your body to check in, and ignoring these messages will not make them go away. Frozen shoulder and gluteal tendinopathy are two very common examples of how our body responds to a decline in estrogen, and they need immediate attention.

We discuss:

• 1 in 4 women over 50 develops Gluteal Tendinopathy
• Why you see a PT over a doctor/surgeon and why X-ray is not the answer
• PRP treatments – how plasma can be an effective treatment for tendons
• 
Keeping in motion is key, but squats are NOT your friend
• The importance of compassionate self-talk: your frustration can actually increase the inflammation

Patricia is the founder of WiseBody Physical Therapy, and previously co-founded KIMA Center for Physiotherapy & Wellness, one of NY’s most prestigious physical therapy & wellness centers. Patricia is also the co-founder of First 1000 Days of Wellness.  She is the author of The Wise Woman’s Guide to Your Healthiest Pregnancy & Birth. 

Visit Patricia in her practice in New York City and the Hamptons, or book a telemedicine appointment.

RESOURCES

Website

@PatriciaLadis

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So many questions that need good answers:

• Why do so many schools have no windows when natural light is critical to growth and brain development?
• What happens to performance when athletes have to travel to new time zones before a big game?
• Does a 5 o'clock shadow really happen at 5 o'clock? (spoiler: it does!)

My guest today, Lynne Peeples, wrote the book that can answer these questions and more: The Inner Clock: Living In Sync With Our Circadian Rhythms. Lynne is a science journalist whose writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Scientific American, Nature and other publications, with master's degrees in biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health and in science journalism from New York University. She lives in Seattle.

Lynne's dedication to understanding circadian science led her down some fascinating paths as she became her own subject. She wanted to understand what happens when the human body is deprived of any of our normal external cues for light and dark, and the findings are absolutely fascinating.

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It's been a while so it's time for some tips on Tipsy Tuesday! Happy March, celebrating women, honoring sleep, and honoring YOU for being a loyal listener.

Throw me a quick review or even just a handful of stars if you have 5 seconds to spare, that's literally all it takes! I read everything and it means a lot!

xo

Erica

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If algae is just about the un-sexiest topic you can think of, think again. You have no idea what you don't know.

Algae is a multibillion-dollar food crop in Asia, used for health and longevity benefits for years, but it's still virtually unknown here in the US. Enter Catharine Arnston, here to tell us why algae is not a superfood – it's a SUPERDUPER food!

Catharine is an expert in algae nutrition, a wellness thought leader, an entrepreneur, and a sought-after speaker. She has a PhD, MBA, BA Hons, and is a board-certified health coach. She founded her company, Energy Bits, with the mission to bring algae to the US consumer in a high quality, easy to digest, and affordable way.

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WE DISCUSS:

• The United Nations and NASA endorse algae as the world's most nutrient dense food
• What even is algae? Why chlorella and spirulina are about to be your new BFFs
• Chlorella has 25x more chlorophyll than liquid chlorophyll itself
• Why we should think of spirulina as room service and chlorella as housekeeping
• Algae as a beneficial nutrient dense source of food for GLP-1 users
• Not all algae products are created equal- don’t try to go cheap on these
• Why KALE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND!
• How paleo and carnivore diets can benefit from algae in a fascinating way

RESOURCES

Website

IG: @energybits

Facebook

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Fun fact: More people are now dying from food-related diseases than smoking. I'll let that sink in for a moment.

Julie Ruelle is a Registered Dietitian with over 20 years of experience and the bearer of this disturbing information. In this episode, we're diving into the world of Ultra-Processed Foods (UPFs), the confusion and misinformation we are being fed on a daily basis, and more on how to eat for long-term health.

Julie is the RD of record at GoCoCo, a food-scanning app that uses an easy-to-understand scoring system based on nutritional value and degree of ultra-processing, empowering consumers to make informed choices. With over 600,000 US foods in the database (that's 80% of all food sold in the US), they are easing the pain of understanding how to shop.

Check out the app here, and listeners get A YEAR OF PREMIUM FOR FREE!

We discuss:

• How do organic cheesy poofs stack up to Doritos??
• How the NOVA system of ratings creates the standards for our food
• Let’s talk about food dyes, AGAIN. Caffeine is clear—so why is Coca-Cola brown?
• The first taste of the sugar is the best-it’s literally the first hit of a drug
• Hidden sources of sugar....you’ll be surprised
• Sugar alternatives: we’ve come a long way, but is it doing more harm than good?

RESOURCES

GoCoCo App

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Fact: The average doctor has approximately TWO hours of training in sleep science. So it's up to us to seek outside expertise to find our own answers.

Enter, Mollie Eastman! A fellow sleep geek and source of inspiration for yours truly, she is the creator of Sleep Is A Skill, and the host of The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast, an approach that optimizes people’s sleep through a unique blend of technology, accountability, and behavioral change. With a background in behavioral change from The Nonverbal Group, she became fascinated with chronobiology and its practical application to sleep and our overall experience of life.

Mollie discusses:

• How CBT has become the first line of treatment for insomnia
• You can go from “good to great” and “great to exceptional”
• Brighter days and darker nights as a key principle to improving sleep (sound familiar, dear listener?)
• The range of tests that exist to determine various disorders
• Trackers aren’t for everyone- hear about what might work (or not!) for you
• The concept of thought timing: we are a different brain at noon than midnight

Resources:

To learn more about Sleep Is A Skill: 

• Website: Sleep Is A Skill
• Join Optimize Your Sleep, A Semi-Private Wearable Group! 
• Weekly Newsletter: Sleep Is A Skill
• Podcast: Sleep Is A Skill
• LinkedIn: Sleep Is A Skill
• Instagram: Sleep Is A Skill  
• Facebook: Sleep Is A Skill
• Twitter: Sleep Is A Skill 
• Pinterest: Sleep Is A Skill 
• YouTube: Sleep Is A Skill 

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