Even though the criticism of bacon and other saturated fats isn't quite as harsh as it once was, is it really a healthier choice than jogging?
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1507ns3b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Grant Petersen
- Organization Rivendell Bicycle Works
- Book Title Eat Bacon, Don't Jog: Get Strong. Get Lean. No Bullshit.
- Guest Website Eat Bacon, Don't Jog
- Guest Twitter Account @workmanpub
- Guest Bio Grant Petersen is the founder and owner of Rivendell Bicycle Works. He has been featured in Outside and Men’s Journal, among other magazines. He lives with his family in Walnut Creek, California, and online at Rivbike.com. His previous book was Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes repeat guest
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
There's more to raw food than just carrot sticks.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1507ns3a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Carol Alt
- Book Title The Raw 50: 10 Amazing Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, Snacks, and Drinks for Your Raw Food Lifestyle
- Guest Website Carol Alt
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/modelcarolalt
- Guest Twitter Account @ModelCarolAlt
- Guest Bio Carol Alt is the ultimate pioneer and chameleon; constantly on the lookout for new ideas and new frontiers. Since her days as the world's most renowned Supermodel, Carol Alt has gone on to be multi-award winning actress, bestselling author on Raw Food Nutrition and hosting her own show, A Healthy You, on Fox News. Having twice graced the cover of the coveted Sports Illustrated Magazine's Swimsuit Edition and in February 2014 Alt was featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit franchise. Alt's other activities include hosting various TV and radio morning shows and newscasts, including Good Day Live, GMA, Access Hollywood, and E! Entertainment. Forever touted as "the model that started the Supermodel trend" by John Casablanca, the owner of Elite Models – made Carol the first ever "Super Elite Model in the Supeer Elite Division." The press therefore dubbed her the first "Supermodel."
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
From baby food and marinades to flours and nut butters, your blender has the ability to span the breakfast-lunch-dinner-dessert spectrum.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 5
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1506ns3e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Rebecca Miller Ffrench
- Book Title The Ultimate Blender Cookbook: Fast, Healthy Recipes for Every Meal
- Guest Website Sweet Home
- Guest Twitter Account @rebeccaffrench
- Guest Bio Rebecca Miller Ffrench is a cookbook author, recipe developer, and lifestyle writer. Her work has been featured in national publications such as Better Homes & Gardens, Condé Nast's Cookie magazine, Real Simple Family, and Martha Stewart Weddings. She has also appeared as a food and entertaining expert on numerous TV programs including Good Morning America and The Better Show. She is regular blogger for babycenter.com and shares her own healthy recipes on sweet-home.com. Passionate about wholesome foods, Rebecca uses her blender daily to turn fresh, local ingredients into healthful meals, and not just liquid ones, for and her husband and two girls in New York City.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
"You might have to sacrifice your plan B for your plan A, even if you don't know it's your plan B at the time." -Cornell Thomas
Additional Info
- Segment Number 4
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1506ns3d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Cornell Thomas
- Book Title The Power of Positivity: Controlling Where the Ball Bounces
- Guest Website Power of Positivity
- Guest Twitter Account @cornellthomas
- Guest Bio Cornell Thomas is a basketball coach, trainer, life coach, motivational speaker, and author. Through his program Crossroads Basketball he has helped hundred of kids in the last nine years reach their goals. For the last four years Cornell has been inspiring and motivating people of all ages through his own motivational quotes and blog site at www.powerofpositivity.net
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
A study found that people with a cold who stayed in a hotel room left 35% of the objects in that room covered in germs.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1506ns3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Lisa & Ron Beres, Certified Green Building Professionals
- Book Title Just GREEN It! Simple Swaps to Save the Planet + Your Health
- Guest Website Ron and Lisa: The Healthy Home Dream Team
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/RonandLisaTheHealthyHomeDreamTeam
- Guest Twitter Account @RonandLisa
- Guest Bio Ron and Lisa Beres are Certified Green Building Professionals, Building Biologists and published authors of several books including, Just GREEN It! and the children's book, My Body My House. In addition to testing the health of homes, their consulting business includes celebrities and Fortune 500's. They are award winning television media experts and have appeared on The Rachael Ray Show, The Suzanne Show, The Doctors, Fox & Friends, The Today Show with Matt Lauer, NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams, Discovery’s Greenovate and Chelsea Lately on E!
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
How do you disconnect from the anxiety and stress of the external world, when you're constantly being bombarded?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 2
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1506ns3b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Barb Schmidt, Author
- Organization Peaceful Mind, Peaceful Life
- Book Title The Practice: Simple Tools for Managing Stress, Finding Inner Peace, and Uncovering Happiness
- Guest Website Barb Schmidt
- Guest Twitter Account @PeacefulBarb
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Guest Bio
Barb Schmidt is an international speaker, philanthropist, spiritual mentor, and best-selling author of The Practice. She has devoted more than 30 years to her studies with inspirational leaders such as Deepak Chopra, Thich Nhat Hanh, Scott Peck, Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo, Thomas Merton scholar James Finley, and Marianne Williamson.
In 2001, Barb brought a larger community into discussions on peace initiatives with her partnership with Florida Atlantic University’s Peace Studies program. In addition to speaking globally, she offers workshops and classes on spiritual practices and hosts events with many notable speakers including the Dalai Lama, Dr. Jane Goodall, Caroline Myss, Dan Millman, Gabrielle Bernstein, Tara Stiles, and James Finley.
Believing that “outer peace begins with inner peace,” in 2011, Barb founded Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life, to further serve those who seek to live a meaningful, happy life, and to fulfill her passion to bring peace to the world. Through this nonprofit, she teaches The Practice—a three-part guide to practical spirituality in today’s modern, and often chaotic, world. She lives in Boca Raton, Florida, with her husband, Dick. -
Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Naturally Savvy | Original Air Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Hosts: Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Guest: Barb Schmidt
Lisa: Wouldn’t it be nice to have an easy practice that could help you feel a bit more peaceful, less stressful and more mindful? Well, we have got the practice for you. We have got Barb Schmidt who is actually the author of The Practice: Simple Tools for Managing Stress, Finding Inner Peace, and Uncovering Happiness. She joins us now. Hi, Barb.
Barb: Hi, happy Wednesday.
Lisa: It’s so great to have you on the program. I understand that The Practice is made up of a 3 point framework. What are they and how do they work?
Barb: Great question. The 3 point framework is really a recipe guide; I call it book of recipes. You start the day waking up, and what do you do to start the day? You get out of bed and spend some time with yourself, sort of a meditation practice, really connecting with you before you launch into the day. I tell people to plug into you first before you start plugging into the rest of the world. That’s the first thing to do, waking up. Then we carry that mindfulness, that connectedness to ourselves, that peacefulness, to the living present.
The second part of the day is the living present. How do I do that? I practice on focusing attention and I have some exercise in there. How do I bring my mind back to the moment? We only have this moment. The mind likes to carry us away, how do I continue to bring my mind back to the moment with a breath, with the use of a mantra? Then I really talk to the third part of the living present. How do we start nourishing ourselves with some reading that is other than the things that are out there? Like this show, listening and reading and watching things that are actually nourishing and causing us to raise the level of our consciousness. Not eliminating the other things, but adding this into your day.
Then, at the end of the day, is the letting go. How do we reflect on the day, make peace with it? Go through a little 5 minute exercise and really set that intention of letting go of the day. I’ve done the best I can. I can’t change anything. How can I go into a peaceful night’s sleep, waking up tomorrow with a brand new day? Full of energy and not burdened with what happened yesterday. That’s The Practice.
Lisa: I think that sounds like an amazing practice. What about for those that are going through, let’s say, acute stress. Would you recommend keeping the same type of protocol, or is there another protocol that you have in place?
Barb: Acute stress for me, what has happened during my 30 years of practice, acute stress comes when I’m not able to be in the moment, feeling the feelings that are happening. Usually when I’m feeling the most stressed it’s because I’m in the past, ruminating over something, or I’m in the future, worrying or having some anxiety over what might happen. This practice of sitting down with yourself in a meditation practice, five minutes – I’m not talking about anything long, when you read the book there is no right or wrong way to do it. It’s really just being. What happens when you get out of your mind and start focusing on your breath or the mantra, whatever tool or object that you pick? You start to enter your heart. The heart is our biggest energy field. It’s where we are sensitive. It’s where we feel things. Most stresses are caused by not actually feeling or identifying what’s going on with me in the moment so I can release it. The technique of sitting with yourself, feeling, then letting go, it’s the same thing all day long. How do I actually do that? How do I be in this moment and feel it so that I can understand it and release it.
Lisa: Now Barb, I know that you have a new initiative for athletes and coaches and you call it ‘Zen Sports.’ What is that?
Barb: I do. I’m a sports fan, for sure. We can be mindful, and I’m teaching this practice and I’m teaching how to be mindful to the ordinary moments of our day in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening. So I’m looking at sports. What causes a player to be able to make that field goal at the end of the game? He has to be in the moment. He has to know full, and in his body, that he can make that field goal. My greatest desire is helping to teach athletes that mindfulness, having that peak performance on the field, but ultimately, that practice carries off the field. Some of the things we see happening today in the NFL, and with athletes in general, can start to subside if I can learn how to manage my anger, manage my stress, and bring myself back to the moment and take a breath. I might not be so quick to lash out at a person or lash out and make a decision in my life that’s going to affect me for the rest of my life. I’m really looking at how does the athlete really embody himself or herself on the field and off the field and really live their greatest life on the field and off the field. That curriculum based on The Practice, helps athletes, coaches and trainers do this.
Lisa: It seems like that can help everyone. It could help ‘Zen Moms.’ Zen at work, right? Taking those principals and dealing with our anger. Andrea?
Andrea: I love that you said that.
Barb: It is what I’m doing. I started this non-profit, Peaceful Mind, Peaceful Life, so all of the profits from everything that I do go into this non-profit. The programs are Zen Sports and I’m teaching autistic adults, I’ve been working with autistic adults now for a year. Helping them realize that they are complete, they are magnificent. You know, they have a tendency to feel like they don’t matter or they don’t measure up to other people because they do have this autism. It’s been an amazing practice for me to work with them; they’ve taught me so much. The Practice is for everyone. It’s your way of empowering yourself, getting yourself grounded on your own 2 feet, walking the life you came to walk, knowing that you’re complete, knowing that you’re strong, knowing that the external world is out there and chaotic and frenzied and anxiety producing, but it’s not who you really are. It’s for everyone.
Andrea: I really like that, especially working with the autistic adults. My daughter is on the spectrum and she has a lot of issue with self-regulation. Have you noticed that with these folks, and you have been able to help them?
Barb: Yes I have and yes I have been able to help them. I’ll tell you one of the greatest stories, I meet with them once a week, and one of the greatest stories one of the young men told me gives me goose bumps every time I hear it. He said “Mrs. Barb, I’m able now to take a breath.” He gets very anxious if the bus doesn’t come on time. The patience level for him in particular has been pretty high. He’s had difficulty finding the patience. He said “Mrs. Barbara, now I take a deep breath and I realize that I can’t control that, but I can control my patience or my anger or my frustration.” What happened was he was able to that and he let the bus driver know, because they’re at the mercy of these people driving the bus, and they really haven’t been very kind, let’s just put it that way. They show up late or they leave them without any notice that they were there to be picked up. He was able to take a breath and let the bus driver know “You left without me yesterday and that wasn’t good for me because I didn’t have a ride then.” I was so proud of him because usually he’s just angry and frustrated and takes it out on himself. “It was my fault, I was late, or I did something wrong.” Looking at how I contributed you this instead of taking a breath, separating a little bit from that anger, but saying: “Look, don’t do that anymore.” He was literally running after the bus down the street. The guy left him. It’s a process and it’s a practice and it’s so rewarding to see how do you disconnect from this anxiety and craziness of the external world and get connected to you within and start acting in a way that’s in your best interest and in the best interest of everyone around you.
Andrea: Hey Barb, can you move in with me?
Barb: I would love to.
Andrea: I need help.
Barb: That’s so cute. You know what my greatest desire is? It’s for people to empower themselves and understand how complete and whole and strong and wonderful they are. Everyone, no matter who we are, we have that depth within us of who we truly are, and we don’t need to be having the external world tell us who we are and what we need to think and be. We need to embody exactly who we are. We can only do that by spending time with ourselves. With the autistic adult group, we spend time as a group, but they also are starting to spend time with themselves. I’m teaching them a 1 minute meditation where they can actually sit with themselves for a minute, just to bring their attention back to their breath just for a minute.
Andrea: I think that’s so important. I love what you’re saying and I think it goes beyond that. We’re out of time for today, but it goes beyond that. I love the points that you’re bringing up. So Barb, where can people find out about you if they want to learn more about what you’re doing or want to get your book?
Barb: The Practice meets you where you are today and that’s what I love the most. I’m on www.BarbSchmidt.com and www.PeacefulMindfPeacfulLife.org. Either one of those two sites. It’s been a joy to be here, we’ll have to do this again.
Andrea: Yes we will. I’m Andrea Donsky along with Lisa Davis. This is Naturally Savvy Radio on RadioMD. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @YourRadioMD and @NaturallySavvy. Thank you everyone, and stay well. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes repeat guest
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
As many as 16-18 million people in the U.S. suffer from migraines. Is there anything you can do to ease the pain?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1506ns3a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Patrick Fratellone, MD
- Guest Website Fratellone Medical
- Guest Twitter Account @patric1939
- Guest Bio Patrick Fratellone is one of the few integrative physicians with a medical degree (MD) as well as being a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbal Guild. Although his conventional training was in Internal Medicine and Cardiology- the scope of his practices is vast. He trained with both Andrew Weil, MD, and Tierona LowDog, MD, RH, at the Fellowship of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. He has written the forward to two recent books: My Journey with Celiac Disease: Jennifer Esposito and the Tracy Piper Protocol by Tracy Piper. He writes a daily blog, and has a weekly internet radio show.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Nearly half of those diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, don't actually have it.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 5
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1504ns3e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Jacob Teitelbaum, MD
- Book Title Real Cause, Real Cure
- Guest Website Jacob Teitelbaum, MD
- Guest Twitter Account @DrJTeitelbaum
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Guest Bio
Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, is a board certified internist and Medical Director of the national Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers and Chronicity. He is author of the popular free iPhone application "Cures A-Z," and author of the best-selling book From Fatigued to Fantastic! (Avery/Penguin Group), Pain Free 1-2-3 — A Proven Program for Eliminating Chronic Pain Now (McGraw-Hill), Three Steps to Happiness: Healing Through Joy (Deva Press 2003), Beat Sugar Addiction NOW! (Fairwinds Press, 2010), and his newest book Real Cause, Real Cure (Rodale Press, July 15, 2011). Dr. Teitelbaum knows CFS/fibromyalgia as an insider — he contracted CFS when he was in medical school and had to drop out for a year to recover. In the ensuing 25 years, he has dedicated his career to finding effective treatment.
Dr. Teitelbaum does frequent media appearances including Good Morning America, CNN, Fox News Channel, the Dr. Oz Show and Oprah & Friends. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Your thoughts and what you say out loud can actually create your reality.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 4
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1504ns3d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Shaman Isabella Stoloff
- Guest Website Orange County Healing Center
- Guest Twitter Account @isabellastoloff
- Guest Bio Shaman Isabella Stoloff is a dynamic leader. She founded the Orange County Healing Center in 2009 and since that time has committed herself to leaving the world a better place. Isabella has been called the Golden Condor and World Ambassador. She has traveled to connect people to their inner wisdom and provide ceremonies for the land. She has a full time practice, writes articles, a YouTube channel, and does guest spots to carry the message of enlightenment. Isabella is a mother and grandmother and understands what is needed today to raise a conscious family. Shaman Isabella feels honored to be on the planet during this time of great awakening. She feels once you empower yourself through positive thought and action you will feel connected and centered. Isabella’s message is to awaken to the light that you are, so you can become the Shaman in your own life.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Sleep takes up about a third of your life (and impacts the other two-thirds). So why don't we give it the attention it deserves?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1504ns3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Nancy Rothstein, The Sleep Ambassador®
- Guest Website The Sleep Ambassador
- Guest Twitter Account @SleepAmbassador
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Guest Bio
As The Sleep Ambassador®, Nancy Rothstein is dedicated to help people SLEEP WELL so they can LIVE WELL. Nancy consults and lectures on Sleep Wellness to Fortune 500 corporations, the travel industry, universities, schools, athletes and to other organizations, reflecting her dedication to education and raising awareness about sleep and sleep disorders.
In 2014, Nancy partnered with CIRCADIAN® to become Director of Corporate Sleep Programs, recognizing their global leadership in providing 24/7 workforce solutions for businesses that operate around the clock. In our 24/7 culture, sleep is being challenged and corporations must wake up to the impact sleep has on workforce optimization for ALL corporate employees.
With decades of consulting and experience in the financial and corporate sectors, Nancy brings an understanding of how sleep impacts productivity and profitability, as well as health care costs, in all organizations. Her compelling presentations about sleep, customized for the audience she is addressing, are sure to educate and inspire, bringing a new respect for sleep and its impact on productivity, health and overall well-being. Nancy collaborates with recognized medical sleep experts, as well as with other leaders, organizations and resources in the field of sleep. -
Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Naturally Savvy | Original Air Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Hosts: Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Guest: Nancy Rothstein, the Sleep Ambassador®
Lisa: If you ask my 10 year old daughter, I’m strict about 2 things. One is eating whole foods and eating a good diet. The other one is sleep. There is no wiggle room on our sleep schedule. I don’t care if we have relatives over that we haven’t seen in ten years. We’re still going to bed, at the time we go to bed. I’m a little extreme, but we’ll see what Nancy Rothstein has to say because I think it makes such a difference in the quality of our lives and, of course, in our health. Nancy Rothstein is the Sleep Ambassador®, Hi Nancy.
Nancy: Hello ladies, good morning.
Lisa: It’s great to have you on. I’m a bit extreme, but talk to us about how we can all get better sleep and, if I’m right, that’s just so important to our health.
Nancy: Well, just listening. If you look at honest living like you just mentioned. One of the most important things is that we can all go to the press and read a million things about sleep but very few people have ever actually taken a course on sleep. It takes up about 1/3 of our lives, and totally impacts the other 2/3 but most of us don’t really know much about it. If we learn about it, we still don’t know what to do about it. So one thing, in terms of the word honest, and this is very important, our bodies are always honest. Our bodies never lie. And the other thing about our bodies is that they’re very present. They’re not in the past, they’re not in the future, and they’re right now. Whereas our minds? Our minds are all over the place. We’re thinking about what we didn’t do and what we need to do, especially for many people when they lay down to sleep at night. Turning off a busy mind and all of that mind chatter is very difficult, so it plays a lot of havoc with falling asleep. The other issue is that transitioning to sleep is so hard for so many people. We could spend hours talking about technology and sleep. I like to say put technology to sleep a good hour before going sleep, without getting into the intricacies of what the blue light does on all of these devices we are on. But I’m going back to the point of listening to our bodies. They are honest. Shutting everything off. I like to say our biology hasn’t changed. Sleep is as essential as food or oxygen. We diet, we don’t live, and we die. But our behaviors have changed so drastically since Thomas Edison’s beautiful invention of the light bulb. Then you add to it all of the technologies, and thank you Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, but it’s all playing havoc with our sleep. We have to get back to the simplicity of sleep, and that’s what we’ve really lost. We’ve lost how simple it is. I love you that you Lisa, I think it was you, said that you are very strict about your sleep habits. That’s because you’ve recognized it as important and you’ve been able to honor it by doing the things you need to. As I like to say, prepare for sleep. It takes preparation for sleep, and it takes surrendering to slumber when literally laying down to fall asleep. Can you stay asleep?
Andrea: Nancy, I have a couple of questions and I’d love to hear your answers. For those people that have trouble falling asleep, what would you recommend?
Nancy: There’s a lot of answers to that, but because we don’t have a lot of time this afternoon, I’m going to give something that I’ve been teaching a lot in my consulting. I love to see the way it has impacted people so rapidly. When you can’t fall asleep it’s usually because your mind is to active, right? Would that be correct?
Andrea: Yes.
Nancy: Here’s a suggestion, a very quick one I’ll make; if you can combine body awareness with breathing and a gratitude practice, you’re pretty much going to cover all the bases to get your mind where it needs to be to go to sleep, which is relaxed, and not thinking about unknown (4:32). We’ve all probably heard, and anyone that’s been to yoga class knows a technique something like this, but when you combine these three different relaxations techniques it’s pretty powerful. It’s a way to get into your body and out of your head. So you start to breathe deeply. You start at your feet. This isn’t about tensing them up and then relaxing them; it’s just going to your feet and saying to them: “I’m so grateful you walked for me; you did so much today, you can rest now.” And then, without getting in to all the details, whatever works for the individual, go up through your body. Get to your stomach and say: “You just did so much work, you can rest now, you can rest.” Then get to your heart. When was the last time any of us thanked our heart? Our heart never gets to rest. It’s always beating and has such a huge impact on our existence. And then you just thank your heart. You thank it for beating all day, whatever comes to you. If there’s an emotional thing, thank it for the feelings, whatever it is, if you’re not asleep already. Remember, we’re combining gratitude, because when you’re grateful you can’t be angry or thinking of other things. We’re combining body awareness, body parts, whatever works for you. And we’re combining breathing, breathing into the different body parts. Then you go to your mouth and your eyes and your ears and your nose, and you breathe. It’s just such a simple thing to do. I’m not asking anyone to buy anything or do anything different, just spend the time spent tossing and turning into something that may be more effective to help them go to sleep. Now, if somebody is getting a fair amount of sleep but wakes up exhausted every day or wakes up during the middle of the night or unknown (6:38) tosses and turns for 2 hours, I highly recommend, I’m not a medical practitioner, that they seek medical care for a prospective diagnosis or treatment for a bona fide sleep disorder. That said, I think many people could improve their sleep just by their sleep preparation and their ability to relax when they get in bed.
Andrea: I definitely think that makes a lot of sense and I like that you say to thank our body, because I do believe that our body doesn’t get thanked enough I think a lot of us are very hard on our body. I think that giving it thanks and appreciation is definitely something that’s important for us to do. We only have about a minute and a half left. Is there anything else you would recommend for those who are listening, in terms of having trouble sleeping, anything you could recommend as the Sleep Ambassador®, that we can leave them with?
Nancy: Yes I would. I think one of the most effective things to help be people, being falling asleep or if they wake up during the night and falling back asleep, is don’t look at the clock. And if your clock is a cell phone, go out and buy and inexpensive clock that, if it has an LED light it should be red, or a simple old fashioned clock. Set the alarm a while before you go to bed. Liberate yourself from the time when you’re going to sleep and turn the clock around and move it far enough away that you’re not going to be pressing the snooze button, which definitely robs you of good sleep if you keep pressing the snooze button. But take away looking at the clock. It doesn’t cost anything, and again, it’s simple and it can have a huge impact on not activating the brain to start counting hours and everything that we do when we look at the clock. That’s important. And then do a self-assessment. What’s the reality here? Do a reality check on your sleep and don’t put too much pressure. Take small steps, adapt your sleep, but good sleep is definitely possible for everybody.
Andrea: Well, I think that’s a great note to end the show on, don’t you Lisa?
Lisa: Oh yes. I used to drive myself crazy looking at the clock. It makes it so much worse, she’s so right.
Nancy: It’s a huge tip, and it makes such a big difference. Such a small thing to do, with such a positive impact.
Andrea: Well, we agree Nancy. Thank you very much for being on our show today. You can learn more about Nancy by going to her website at www.TheSleepAmbassador.com. You can also follow her on twitter @SleepAmbassador. I’m Adrea Donsky along with Lisa Davis. This is Naturally Savvy Radio RadioMD. Like us on Facebook and follow us on twitter @YourRadioMD and @NaturallySavvy. Thanks for listening everyone. Sleep well and stay well. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
