Episode 017: When looking at creating health, the importance of sleep is one aspect that people often neglect. You can have a fantastic diet, exercise regularly and manage your stress well, but if you are not sleeping properly it will start to take its toll on your body.

This week’s episode of Real Health Radio is all about how to improve your sleep. I go through lots of suggestions on how you can getting better quality sleep, as well as talking about why different issues can come up and how to remedy them. I also talk about sunlight and how daytime activities affect your sleep.

Here’s what I talk about in this podcast episode:

2:00 Why sunlight is important for health (and sleep)

4:30 How different light spectrums affect health

7:50 How light and dark affects us across a day

11:15 What happens while you sleep

13:40 Some of the benefits of sleep

17:50 Why TV’s and laptops can cause such a problem

21:35 When to go to sleep, wake up and the number of hours you need

27:30 What happens if you need to look at a screen before bed?

31:45 How food intake affects sleep and how to improve it

40:05 How to use light therapy to assist sleep

45:05 The problem with waking in the night to urinate

49:20 How exercise can impact on sleep

51:55 How Epsom salt baths can help sleep

Links I refer to in this show:

F.lux

Light filters for TV, computers and phones

Blue-light blocking glasses

250W red light bulb

 “Chicken” or brooder light

Water article

Solving The Paleo Equation

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