Did you know that every 60 seconds another 20 chemicals are registered for use on the world’s largest database? There are over 144 million chemicals registered. But are these chemicals tested? And how about the synergistic effect of different chemicals? Building biologist Nicole Bijlsma explores what these chemicals can mean for you and your health. We question whether your home is making you sick and what you can do about it.

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Did you know that every 60 seconds another 20 chemicals are registered for use on the world’s largest database? There are over 144 million chemicals registered. But are these chemicals tested? And how about the synergistic effect of different chemicals? Building biologist Nicole Bijlsma explores what these chemicals can mean for you and your health. We question whether your home is making you sick and what you can do about it.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

For more information about Building Biology visit www.buildingbiology.com.au

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Dr. W. Chris Winter, neurologist and sleep physician joins me to explain why do we sleep, the different understandings of tired, common sleep disorders such as insomnia, snoring, sleep apnea. The importance of a consistently good night sleep and what the individual needs to feel rested. The one question to ask yourself that can evaluate your sleep and how to improve it. Because at the end of the day you can only control what you can control.

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:                           Hello and welcome to Unstress. My name is Dr. Ron Ehrlich. Today my guest is Dr. Chris Winter. He has been dubbed the Sleep Whisperer by Arianna Huffington from The Huffington Post.

Now this emerging field of sleep medicine, it cuts across every specialty because it affects every part of the body. Of course, I can't resist but ask why do we sleep. I mean it's something we take for granted. It's a question you'd think that there'd be a very simple answer. I love Chris' explanation for it, which basically looks at the way nerves work.

When you think the whole body's connected by nerves, it makes total sense. It's worth listening to. The keyword, I think we both ended up agreeing on, is consistently a good night's sleep. We talk a lot about that and how important it is.

Start there and we'd go into some sleep problems as well. There's a question right at the end of the first part of the interview which I love to ask, and that is what is the biggest challenge, in his opinion, people face on their health journey in our modern world? His answers are such great insights. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Dr. Chris Winter. Welcome to the show, Chris.

Dr W. Chris Winter:                        Thank you very much, Dr. Ron. How should I address you?

Dr Ron Ehrlich:                           Well, Ron's fine, but if we want to get formal, Dr. Ron's okay, too.

Dr W. Chris Winter:                      I like Dr. Ron. You did not the doctor, but Dr. Ron sounds great.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:                           Okay, okay. That'll do. But, listen, I've been working with sleep specialists for 15 years, and I don't know. They tend to be some people, but you're a neurologist. Is that typical of sleep physicians?

Dr W. Chris Winter:                       It's changed over the years. In the United States, the original sleep doctors were really in the psychiatric world, dream interpretation, trying to work out some of the early stages of sleep. Then in the '80s, with the advent of the treatment of sleep apnea and Sullivan's jacuzzi-turned-CPAP, it really took a pretty dramatic swing towards the pulmonary doctor or the pulmonologist.

But in the last decade or so, with as much focus as has been put on the brain, I think it's really becoming universally accepted that sleep is a neural process, but what I like about sleep is there's room for everybody at the table. There's neurologists and pediatricians and dentists and surgeons. It's such a great inclusive field, multidisciplinary, that ... Yeah, so I would say that there's a lot of neurology sleep here in the United States, but everybody's got something to give.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:                           Yeah. I think sleep is one of those things that a lot of people give very little thought to. Although when they don't sleep well, they know it. Can we just go back to a real basic question here, and that is why do we sleep? What's the purpose of sleep?

Dr W. Chris Winter:                        It's surprising how poorly we can answer that question in 2017. I mean I think that most people believe that sleep is doing something within the brain to reset it. I think as a leading theory now is really almost at the synaptic junction where two neurons come together that sleep really restores that connection between them, so that when people are not sleeping over long periods of time or sleeping poorly, there is a definite degradation of cognitive healt...

Dr W. Chris Winter, neurologist and sleep physician joins me to explain why do we sleep, the different understandings of tired, common sleep disorders such as insomnia, snoring, sleep apnea. The importance of consistently good night sleep and what the individual needs to feel rested. The one question to ask yourself that can evaluate your sleep and how to improve it. Because at the end of the day you can only control what you can control.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

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Dr W. Chris Winter, neurologist and sleep physician joins me to explain why do we sleep, the different understandings of tired, common sleep disorders such as insomnia, snoring, sleep apnea. The importance of consistently good night sleep and what the individual needs to feel rested. The one question to ask yourself that can evaluate your sleep and how to improve it. Because at the end of the day you can only control what you can control.

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Dr Charles Massy joins me to discuss regenerative agriculture and the five basic functions for ecological literary. We chat about why this important for farmers but also what this means for the city dweller. And why pesticides such as Roundup are being found in your beer. This is a beautiful story of hope and how indivisible humans are with Mother Earth.

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Dr. Ron Ehrlich:                   Hello and welcome to Unstress. My name's Dr. Ron Ehrlich. Today's podcast, wait for it, is about the future survival of the earth and humanity. A big topic, I'll give you that, and if ever there was an understatement, that was it. But my guest today is a fifth-generation farmer who has written a fabulous book [Call of the Reed Warbler] on regenerative agriculture, and has not only asked some very difficult questions, but he's also come up with some solutions that are relevant to you and me in ways you may have or not have even considered.

What is regenerative agriculture? In order to understand it, you've got to understand how almost all of our food in the Western World is produced and the effect it's having, not just on our health, but the health of the land. More specifically, the soil, which it's worth remembering is a finite resource. There's a limit. If you're saying to yourself, "Don't worry about it," you think they'll get it all sorted out." Well, the current trends of epidemic preventable degenerative diseases, if that's anything to go by, and I repeat, preventable, well, I think we need to all think again.

The alternative, or rather the norm, in our world is that we've got a very mechanistic industrialized approach to agriculture with its concentration on very technological solutions. It's been that way dominating Western society for over three centuries, over this whole scientific era. This way of thinking has led to a practice of industrialized farming marked by heavy use of machinery, pesticides, and artificial fertilizers. The monopoly of this form of farming has led to a very, very sad situation. We've got degraded soils, reduced productivity, financial hardships for farmers, and a very, very high, above average suicide rate.

While we're at it, for us, the consumer, it's led to what is seemingly cheap food. I say seemingly because you need to factor in the flow-on costs of medical expenses and environmental degradation, so we're kidding ourselves if we think food is cheap. To that I would add, as Charles points out in my discussion with him, to an overabundant supply of calorie-high and nutrient-poor food, which in turn has led to this epidemic in preventable chronic degenerative diseases like cancer, heart disease. There are now over 80 autoimmune diseases. That is the body attacking itself. Not to mention diabetes and obesity, and if all this is connected to what we are talking about today.

This really is a story for us all. Particularly, for those that have any interest in the survival of the earth, and for that matter, humanity. I hope that includes all of us, and I hope you enjoy my conversation with Dr. Charles Massy.

Welcome to the show, Charles.

Dr. Charles Massy:              Thanks very much. Great to be here.

Dr. Ron Ehrlich:                   Charles, one of the things that's often intrigued me is that homo sapiens as a species have been around for 200, maybe 300,000 years, and we're always told genetically we haven't changed that much. But something happened 10,000 or so years ago that started the agricultural revolution. Something prompted that or allowed that to happen, which has seen us take over the world. What was it?

Dr. Charles Massy:              That's a point that directly relates to what we're talking about, but the fact that we haven't changed much, of course, isn't true. We're constantly evolving, especially with new forms of genetics like epigenetics and stuff. Getting back to that, the homo sapiens, yes,

Dr Charles Massy joins me to discuss regenerative agriculture and the five basic functions for ecological literary. We chat about why this important for farmers but also what this means for the city dweller. And why pesticides such as Roundup are being found in your beer. This is a beautiful story of hope and how indivisible humans are with Mother Earth.

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Dr Charles Massy joins me to discuss regenerative agriculture and the five basic functions for ecological literary. We chat about why this important for farmers but also what this means for the city dweller. And why pesticides such as Roundup are being found in your beer. This is a beautiful story of hope and how indivisible humans are with Mother Earth.

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Sleep physician, Dr. Anup Desai, joins me to talk about the most important part of the day… sleep. What is a good night's sleep? How much sleep do we actually need? What actually defines a good night's sleep? And what are some of the steps you can take for it to really happen?

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Dr. Ron Ehrlich:                    Hello and welcome to Unstress. I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich. A theme you are going to always hear on this podcast, one that needs a constant reminder is sleep. Sleep is without a doubt, the most important part of the day. Over the last 15 years or so it's become an important part of our healthcare program in our practice. In fact, I would imagine any health practitioner of whatever persuasion, be they Medical Practitioner, Naturopaths, Chiro's, Osteo's, whatever - If sleep is not part of the questions that you are asking your patients, or it's not something you're focusing on then it's more than likely you're not focusing on it in your own life, because that's how I came to it.

I mean, when I realized 15 years ago how important sleep was, something which I'd taken for granted for a hell of a long time, I realized the difference it could make. But anyway the questions are, "What is a good night's sleep?" And "What actually defines a good night's sleep?" And "What are some of the steps you can take for it to really happen?" And the key word here is consistently good night's sleep. Just getting one good night's sleep here and there is really not what it's about. I think getting a consistently good night's sleep will help you build the mental, physical and emotional resilience that you need to face the stresses of our modern world.

Now, Anup Desai is the Sleep Physician that I have been working with for many years and you'll be surprised to hear the amount of training that goes into a Sleep Specialist. I mean, many of you may not have heard of this as a specialty, but Sleep Physicians are a specialty and the amount of training that Anup has gone through is kind of mind-boggling, really. It also is going to be insightful just - We're going to cover some problems later on in the podcast - We're going to take a break in the middle of it and I'm going to ask you three key questions. But I hope you enjoy this interview that I had with Dr. Anup Desai.

Welcome to the show, Anup.

Dr Anup Desai:                     Thanks, Ron.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:                    Now Anup, you and I would both agree that arguably sleep's the most important part of the day, but not everybody sees it that way. Perhaps we could tell people why sleep's important.

Dr. Anup Desai:                     Yeah, Ron. Sleep is clearly an extremely important part of the day and it's often a neglected part of the day. At least in the sense that people don't think of it and realize the importance. We all sleep. We often sleep too little or without good quality. We don't recognize that that actually is a key to how we function during the day and to our overall health.

Dr. Ron Ehrlich:                    Now, what actually defines a good night's sleep? I mean, people think putting their head on the pillow's enough.

Dr Anup Desai:                     Yeah.

Dr. Ron Ehrlich:                    What defines a good night's sleep?

Dr. Anup Desai:                     Yeah, no that's a good question. So a good night's sleep has a whole lot of different aspects to it. So firstly, you need to progress through the different sleep stages. There's a whole lot of defined sleep stages from non-REM sleep to REM sleep, different abbreviations to describe different aspects of sleep. So we want to see people progress through the non-REM and then the REM stage several times overnight. Then we want to see enough time for sleep, adequate duration for sleep. As a society, we're increasingly sleep restricted for lots of reasons that many of us can imagine and a lot of people don't get enough time for sleep and therefore that's in...

Sleep physician, Dr. Anup Desai, joins me to talk about the most important part of the day… sleep. What is a good night's sleep? How much sleep do we actually need? What actually defines a good night's sleep? And what are some of the steps you can take for it to really happen?

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

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