3 Rs to Up Your Energy: Rest, Recovery & Restoration – Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith & Kate Northrup – #851 : 851
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
You’re probably skipping rest to get more done in your day. Or you think you’re resting while you sleep. The former doesn’t work; the latter just isn’t true. Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith and Kate Northrup approach rest and recovery in ways that actually re-energize and power your performance. In this special episode of Bulletproof Radio, you’ll learn about your “rest deficit” and ways to optimally rest your brain, body, and emotions.
If you enjoy this special episode with Dr. Dalton-Smith and Kate, listen to their full Bulletproof Radio podcasts:
7 Types of Rest That Will Fix What Sleep Doesn’t – Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith with Dave Asprey – #720
- Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is a board-certified internal medicine physician, work-life integration researcher, speaker, and best-selling author. She’s been the featured wellness expert for numerous media outlets including MSNBC, Dr. Oz, Fast Company, and Psychology Today. She’s practiced clinical medicine for more that 20 years in the Birmingham, Alabama, area.
- In her book Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity, she describes seven types of rest that underlie how we show up in the world. All of them affect your performance in different and unexpected ways. “Rest really is about restorative activity,” Dr. Dalton-Smith says. “What are the restorative activities you do to help pour back into these seven areas to counteract the ways that you pour out within your day-to-day life.”
- To see how well you may or may not be resting, take the Rest Quiz at https://ichoosemybestlife.com/quiz/rest-quiz-test/.
Do Less to Get More – Kate Northrup – #654
- Kate Northrup is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, speaker, activist and mother, she has built a multimedia digital company by doing less and working fewer hours—all while raising two small kids. Her trick? Bending time.
- In her newest book, “Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Ambitious Women,” she says a resounding no to the addiction of busyness and debunks the myth that personal worth equals productivity.
- “We might be doing things just because we’re upholding some standards that if we really were to check in with our hearts and souls, they’re not actually bringing us joy,” Kate says. “So, I believe things need to either bring us results or bring us joy. If they don’t bring us results or joy, they have no business in our lives.”
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| 0:00.0 | Do you ever wonder if you're balancing out your hard charging stuff with rest and recovery? |
| 0:06.5 | It could be biohacks with extra cryotherapy or doing more squats than you should or high |
| 0:13.8 | intensity interval training or lifting heavy or any of the other stuff you could do. |
| 0:18.4 | Are you balancing it out with rest and recovery? |
| 0:21.2 | You can manage your energy flow so that rest ranks as high as what you eat, movement, sleep, |
| 0:26.8 | human connection. |
| 0:27.8 | So this is why I put together a special episode for you which is bringing up two bulletproof |
| 0:34.0 | radio experts who focus on rest. |
| 0:36.8 | If you only rest, you're only push, you're doing it wrong. |
| 0:40.8 | You're going to learn about your rest deficit and several different types of rest that |
| 0:45.5 | you probably haven't thought of. |
| 0:46.8 | In fact, it was a really mind blowing set of knowledge for me from Dr. Shonda Dalton-Smith. |
| 0:52.6 | She's going to tell you the seven kinds of rest that define how you're going to show up in |
| 0:56.8 | the world. |
| 0:57.8 | It did change some of my personal practices when I first got in touch with Shonda and |
| 1:02.7 | learned about her work. |
| 1:04.9 | Other guest is Kate Northrup who says her resounding no to the addiction of busyness. |
| 1:11.0 | She says straight up that personal worth is not based on productivity and she did punks |
| 1:17.9 | it very scientifically. |
| 1:19.9 | She'll tell you how to balance practical data and soul work so you can manage your energy |
| 1:25.2 | and your life. |
| 1:27.3 | She'll tell you that doing less in a smart way gives you more of everything. |
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