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Wow, Jena S. Griffith and I are back for a LOADED episode (part 2 of our CV series) and even more loaded list of research citations to help us better understand testing, treatment, foundational considerations, and mask use. 

Please be sure to check the blog link for the full list of research (including more than what was discussed in the episode), pending research and updates: 

https://www.christabiegler.com/blog/cv19part2

Here are some of the research discussed: 

• [02:59] RT-PCR Testing
• [18:45] Types of treatment or foundational nutrition
• [38:11] Similar symptoms of Zinc deficiency to COVID-19 symptoms
• [46:52] MATH Protocol

 Mentioned in this episode: 

• Professor Stephen Bustin on Challenges with RT-PCR
• Dr. Michael Osterholm on wearing a cloth mask
• Zach Bush, MD Interview about COVID-19
  
  

Jena S. Griffith received her Bachelor of Science and completed her dietetic internship with a nutrition education concentration at the University of Northern Colorado. Before that, she earned certifications from the Institute of the Psychology of Eating and the Institute of Integrative Nutrition that enabled her to practice as an Integrative Health Coach. Jena has maintained a private nutrition practice and serves as the lead nutrition instructor for Albemarle county’s community education program. Currently, she is the nutrition director for Culpeper Wellness Foundation and Powell Wellness Center, the top-ranking medical wellness center in Virginia. Jena also has a journalism degree from New York University and is the Editor of the Integrative RDN, a newsletter for Dietitians in Integrative & Functional Medicine.

For more than 15 years, Jena has immersed herself in research and education in the fields of health, wellness, nutrition, and fitness. Her mission is to compassionately support, educate and inspire people to lead energetic, healthy, and joyful lives.

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I resisted doing anything CV19 related to the podcast, but I have news fatigue and just need some good research on the topic. That's why I invited my investigative journalist turned dietitian friend Jena S. Griffith back on The Less Stressed Life Podcast for a two-episode series on the CV to talk current research and common questions around asymptomatic transmission, going back to school, immunity, testing, treatment, and masks.

Full list of citations for this episode: https://www.christabiegler.com/blog/cv19part1

Here are some of the research discussed:

• [07:02] A study on infectivity of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers
• [08:56]  Rapid asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 during the incubation period demonstrating strong infectivity in a cluster of youngsters aged 16-23 years outside Wuhan and characteristics of young patients with COVID-19: A prospective contact-tracing study
• [15:12] Children are unlikely to be the main drivers of the COVID-19 pandemic - A systematic review 
• [19:46] Characteristics and Outcomes of Children With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection Admitted to US and Canadian Pediatric Intensive Care Units 
• [29:12] Targets of T Cell Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus in Humans with COVID-19 Disease and Unexposed Individuals

 Mentioned in this episode:

• Four main common cold Coronaviruses

Jena S. Griffith received her Bachelor of Science and completed her dietetic internship with a nutrition education concentration at the University of Northern Colorado. Before that, she earned certifications from the Institute of the Psychology of Eating and the Institute of Integrative Nutrition that enabled her to practice as an Integrative Health Coach. Jena has maintained a private nutrition practice and serves as the lead nutrition instructor for Albemarle county’s community education program. Currently, she is the nutrition director for Culpeper Wellness Foundation and Powell Wellness Center, the top-ranking medical wellness center in Virginia. Jena also has a journalism degree from New York University and is the Editor of the Integrative RDN, a newsletter for Dietitians in Integrative & Functional Medicine.

For more than 15 years, Jena has immersed herself in research and education in the fields of health, wellness, nutrition, and fitness. Her mission is to compassionately support, educate and inspire people to lead energetic, healthy, and joyful lives.

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"𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑆𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒-𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒; 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑠."

I'm joined by a neuroscientist, former fashion designer, and the Muse creator, Ariel Garten in this week's episode of the Less Stressed Life Podcast to help us understand what goes on in our own mind through meditation.

Here are some of the key takeaways:

• [07:21] Benefits of meditation
• [09:47] Neuroscience of meditation
• [14:12] Forms of meditation
• [18:15] Difference between meditation and mindfulness

Mentioned in this episode: 

• Best time to meditate
• Components of pain
• Muse Headband

Ariel Garten is a Neuroscientist, psychotherapist,  mom, former fashion designer, and the female founder and visionary of an amazing and highly successful tech start-up Muse.

Muse tracks your brain during meditation to give you real-time feedback on your meditation, guiding you into the "zone" and solving the problem most of us have when starting a meditation practice- letting you know when you are doing it right. 

When she is not reading brains (literally) or investing in, inspiring and advising other start-ups and women in biz, you can find her on stages across the world, from TED to MIT to SXSW, inspiring people to understand that they can accomplish anything they want by learning what goes on in their own mind

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“Real conscious living is about living in the moment, in the truth. Not in something you brought to it, not in a previous assessment, not in some idea you have about it or a judgment you have about it- it's really being present to what's going on."

"When someone comes in, if they talk about their trauma and then they leave, it's kind of like taking the trauma out of a file drawer and reading the file out loud and putting it back in the drawer and then they leave and nothing has gotten better just because they talked about it..."

In this week's episode of the Less Stressed Life podcast, I got the chance to chat with a health psychologist and therapist Dr. Nancy Mramor who shares her expertise about EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitizing and Reprocessing). A therapeutic treatment for anyone who wants to heal past pains, beliefs, and trauma.

Here are some of the key takeaways:

• 02:12 What is EMDR?
• 05:42 How EMDR is performed?
• 11:56 How to know if EMDR works for you?
• 18:26 The use of hypnosis

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Instinct to Heal Book by Dr. David Servan-Schreiber
• Spiritual Fitness Book by Dr. Nancy Mramor 

Nancy Mramor Ph.D. is a Media and Health Psychologist, On-air Media Expert, a Real Conscious Living Coach and Therapist, an International Speaker and Author of two award-winning books, Spiritual Fitness and Get Reel: Produce Your Own Life. Spiritual Fitness won a Coalition of Visionary Resources Award in the category of books that bridge spirituality and science; an award won the same year by the Dalai Lama in the category of consciousness. Get Reel won first place in the self-help category at the Author's Zone. Dr. Nancy’s approach to therapy is one of Real Conscious Living. Her work as a psychotherapist in private practice in Pittsburgh includes over 30 years of experience. As a psychotherapist and coach, Dr. Nancy utilizes energy work, spiritual fitness coaching, EMDR, and Hypnosis, to heal past wounds and traumas and transform thought patterns into powerful healthy ones. Today she will share information about a therapy treatment for anyone who wants to heal past beliefs and traumas. It is timely, as more and more people are finding it helpful and recommending it to their friends, so the number of requests for EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitizing and Reprocessing) has grown considerably!

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"𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠—𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑦 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠. 𝐶𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑦 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒...  "


With everything happening in recent weeks, it can be hard to achieve a state of balance in our headspace. This episode from Holistic Psychotherapist Dr. Ellie Katz is right on time. 

She and I talked about the essential principles for health and well- being and how to deal with what sabotages our mental health. 
 

Here are the highlights:

• [02:49] What is holistic psychotherapy?
• [07:38] Three powerful negative states
• [09:22] What an escape coping mechanism looks like?
• [12:00] Six behavior principles

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Bach flower remedies
• When Sane People Do Insane Things: A Prescription for Health and Wellbeing Book by Dr. Ellie Katz 

Dr. Ellie Katz is a leading practitioner of holistic psychotherapy. For the last forty years, her eclectic interventions have featured innovative approaches to using meditation, guided thinking, and the Bach Flower Remedies. Dr. Katz has lectured at Einstein/Montefiore Medical Center, the University of Istanbul, First Beijing Medical Center, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been a senior staff member at the Retorno rehab facility since 2003.

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"𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ; 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡."⁣⁣
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In this week's episode of the 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭, I chat with a Certified Nutrition Specialist Britt Reuter MS, LN, CNS about her experience and expertise on hair loss and how to overcome the issues to get back on living the best life.⁣
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Here are some of the key takeaways:⁣⁣

• 10:02 Hairloss types
• 19:40 Hair loss diagnosis
• 27:34 Hair loss realistic timeline 
• 34:11 Dealing with the emotional side of hair loss

 Mentioned in this episode:

• “What’s Your Hair Loss Type?” Free Quiz  
• “Girl’s Guide to Dry Shampoo” 

Britt Reuter is a Licensed Nutritionist, Certified Nutrition Specialist, and the author of the eBook “Girl’s Guide to Reversing Hair Loss”. It's Britt’s personal experience with chronic inflammation coupled with her formal training in nutrition and functional medicine that empowers her to help women overcome the symptoms they feel stuck with so they can get back to living their best life. 

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"𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙. 𝐼 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛, 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑢𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠..."

"𝐼𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠...𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑛: “𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎 𝑠𝑚𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑟? 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑔𝑒? 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦. 𝑊𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑡, 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠."


You'll love Dr. Jolene Brighten, a fiery Naturopathic Physician and Nutritional Biochemist, in this week's episode of the Less Stressed Life podcast as she shares her paradigm-shifting info about post birth control syndrome and real talk on women's health issues.

Here are some of the key takeaways:

• 10:26 How birth control works?
• 23:01 Post birth control syndrome
• 38:22 Nutrient depletion and deficiencies while on birth control
• 42:55 Post birth control pill impact on baby's microbiome while breastfeeding

    Mentioned in this episode:

• Beyond the Pill book by Dr. Jolene Brighten 
• This is Your Brain on Birth Control book by Dr. Sarah Hill
• The Dirt Cure: Growing Healthy Kids with Food Straight from Soil by Maye Shetreat-Klein, MD

Dr. Jolene Brighten is a Naturopathic Physician, Nutritional Biochemist, and the best selling author of Beyond the Pill, a comprehensive women's hormone guide that also helps women navigate hormonal birth control. Dr. Brighten is an international speaker, a MindBodyGreen Collective member, and has been featured in Forbes, HuffPo, The Guardian, Bustle, New York Post, Well + Good, and many notable publications. She is a medical advisor for one of the first data-driven apps to offer women personalized birth control recommendations. DrBrighten.com is dedicated to bringing the most cutting edge information on women's hormones, birth control, post-birth control syndrome, and real talks on women's health issues.

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“…𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦'𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑦 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑠, 𝑝𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠, ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠, 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙; 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑒, 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑔, 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑗𝑜𝑦. "

In this week's episode of the Less Stressed Life podcast, Dr. Terry Wahls, a clinical professor and the author of The Wahls Protocol shares her knowledge and journey on having a chronic autoimmune condition and how she made a radical recovery from tilt recline wheelchair to riding a bike.

Here are some of the key takeaways:

• [06:28] Effects of high-level stress on the body
• [22:53] Tips on  following the diet part of The Wahls Protocol
• [27:23] Flares and what do those look like?
• [28:16] Tips on overcoming chronic autoimmunity

Mentioned in this episode:

• Wahls Diet Cheat Sheet 
• The Wahls Protocol 

Dr. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials testing the efficacy of a therapeutic lifestyle to treat multiple sclerosis-related symptoms. In addition, she is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions.

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"Your body is an engine; you actually put off anywhere between 60-160 watts a night, depending on size, BMI, gender, and metabolism." 

I got the chance to talk to the inventor of ChiliPad™, Tara Youngblood in this week's episode of the Less Stressed Life podcast about temperature regulation as a means of improving sleep and the impact of deep sleep on overall health.

Here are some of the key takeaways:

• [09:03] Significance of temperature regulation during sleep
• [12:21] Tips to improve sleep
• [16:13[ How to track deep sleep?
• [21:29[ Importance of cooling the surface of the bed vs. cooling the ambient temperature in the room

Mentioned in this episode: 

• VLPO (ventrolateral preoptic)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventrolateral_preoptic_nucleus
• Jerome Seagal - http://www.bri.ucla.edu/people/jerome-m-siegel-phd
• WHOOP - https://www.whoop.com/
• Tara's TEDx episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR-lWXZ7ZUg
• Reprogram Your Sleep: The Sleep Recipe That Works 
• ChiliPad™  -  https://www.chilitechnology.com

Tara Youngblood is a fusion scientist working to further studies on cold therapy and its impact on sleep. She's written and published the leading white paper connecting more than 70 research papers to the effects of temperature on sleep quality and as an expert in sleep science, she is a highly regarded and sought-after international speaker. Tara’s research has led to more than a dozen patent filings, and she is the co-founder, along with her husband Todd, of Kryo, Inc., inventors of the ChiliPad™. Tara is continually seeking new opportunities to improve the quality of life by those most affected with sleep disorders. She and her family sleep soundly at their home in Charlotte, NC.

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In this week's episode of the Less Stressed Life podcast, I talk to one of my favorite people, Jena S. Griffith, about the science behind morning light and its effect on our overall health especially in terms of sleep and eye health.

• [08:11] What morning light provides and what we're missing?
• [15:40] Significance of melatonin production
• [22:20] Full spectrum light composition and its specific effects on overall health
• [34:12] Mechanism of how melatonin degraded by blue light

• Health and Light Book by John Ott
• Mitochondrial Health by Dr. Douglas Wallace
• Dminder app

For more than 15 years, Jena has immersed herself in research and education in the fields of health, wellness, nutrition, and fitness. Her mission is to compassionately support, educate and inspire people to lead energetic, healthy, and joyful lives.

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