This is episode number 141 of the Well Fed Women Podcast.

Welcome to Well Fed Women. I'm your co-host Noel Tar

and nutritional therapy practitioner and a certified personal trainer and I'm joined by my bestie

Stephanie Rupert author of the best selling book sexy by nature. On the show we provide moderately

amusing banter authentic unfiltered conversations relating to

nutrition, fitness, mindset, and body image, and offer empowering advice for women from women. While you're listening, please keep in mind that the

information on this podcast is intended to provide helpful and informative

material and should not be used to diagnose or treat disease. We are so excited to have you here, so now let's have some fun.

Oh, how are you, ma'am?

Madam.

I have an interesting tidbit about my body to share that I think might be helpful for

other people if you would like me to go forth your body. Tell us about your

body. Let me tell you about my body. Okay so I don't know how much I talked about over the course of the last few months that my headaches

had been getting worse and I had also been having a harder time sleeping.

And these have been two issues that have dogged me for like pretty much my entire life. My problem with sleep is that I can

fall asleep outright but I usually wake up after four-ish hours, four or five hours and can fall back asleep if I like eat a lot, but then I just, I hate that.

I can't tell you how much I hate that. I have to eat before I go to bed and then in the middle of sleep,

and I hate it, but I was stuck to it, it was the only thing I could do to fall sleep.

And it was starting to work last and I did some research and it turns out there's a

neurotransmitter called Gabba which is very important. It's the primary inhibitory

neurotransmitter in the brain, like it shuts things off and Gaba deficiency is

associated with a lot of things that I suffer from including not being able to sleep through the night.

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