027: Shawn Stevenson – Optimize Your Sleep | Don’t Underestimate Walking | Blue-Light Blocking
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2015
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Today we are speaking with health expert, Shawn Stevenson. Shawn shares his amazing story of how he was able to heal from and "incurable" spinal condition - degenerative disc disease. The 3 contributing factors that lead to his health transformation were diet, exercise and proper sleep. Shawn is the author of the book Sleep Smarter and is a true master when it comes to topic of sleep optimization. He hosts the hit podcast The Model Health Show where he shares life-changing information with people from around the globe.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Shawn went from being barely able to walk to a thriving health leader
- Committing 100% to not giving up
- You need to move your body to heal
- Movement, nutrition and sleep... the big 3 when it comes to healing
- It starts with upgrading your ingredients
- The power of listening to your body
- Shawn's current diet and how it has evolved over the years
- Walking is the best form of exercise
- Long distance running ISN'T the secret to losing weight
- Stress is wreaking havoc on our health
- Sleep is essential for solidifying memories (like the epic info in this episode)
- Getting good sleep ("money time sleep") is like making a good investment
- Melatonin is a powerful anti-cancer hormone
- Health professionals are generally unfit
- The World Health Organization states that shift-work is a class 3 carcinogen
- Melatonin supplementation can down regulate your body's production over time
- 8-9 out of 10 Americans are deficient in magnesium + 100% of insomniacs
- Don't exercise within 5 hours before bed
- Your heart loves magnesium
- Over-wearing a bra can lead to breast cancer
- Bras cause your breasts to sag
- Sex makes for a better night's sleep
- The blue light from electronics before bed causes a reduction in melatonin
- Orange tinted glasses are a hack for those nights when you need extend your screen time
Related Links:
The Model Health Show (iTunes)
Shawn Stevenson - Sleep Smarter (book)
Follow Shawn Stevenson on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Natural Calm Magnesium (supplement)
Sidney Ross Singer - Dressed To Kill (book)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the 27th episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast. My name's |
| 0:14.3 | Jesse Chappas and I'm here with Marnie Wasserman. Today we have a special |
| 0:19.7 | guest that is an expert on the topic of sleep, which is something that |
| 0:24.8 | Marnie and I are always trying to improve upon and perfect within our own |
| 0:30.4 | routine. So we are really excited to have Sean Stevenson on. And before we get |
| 0:35.6 | into topics we covered on today's show, I want to get into the iTunes review of the week. And |
| 0:42.4 | this one is from Kaladin Mama and she writes |
| 0:46.7 | inspirational five-star review. Jesse and Marnie share a wealth of health |
| 0:52.0 | information in a real down-to-earth manner. |
| 0:55.5 | They talk about their own personal health journeys that many people can relate to. |
| 1:00.2 | As a busy mom, these topics inspire and motivate myself to continue providing the best nutrition and lifestyle for my family. |
| 1:08.0 | Thank you guys. |
| 1:10.0 | And thank you, Callit and mama. That was an amazing review. We thank each and every one of you guys who takes the time to do that for us. |
| 1:17.0 | At this point, we don't have a lot of action going on over in Stitcher. |
| 1:21.0 | So if you guys could take some time and go and leave us a review |
| 1:24.1 | over there it would be much appreciated and we want to thank each and every one of you guys |
| 1:28.7 | for listening and rating and |
| 1:42.5 | Our guest today Sean Stevenson so we are super excited to have him because he is someone who actually Jesse's been following him for a while listening to his podcast and I've recently just gotten hooked on his podcast and he's so |
| 1:47.0 | relatable you will find that Sean is just so easy to listen to he you feel like you're |
| 1:52.1 | right in the room with them, we did at least, and he has the same |
| 1:56.4 | philosophies that we do about health, nutrition, fitness, so we get into a lot of that today |
| 2:01.6 | and Sean really talks about his journey and some of the core things that help to set him on the right path and |
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