#328: Meeta Singh, MD – Sleep, Immunity & Mental Health

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🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Meeta Singh is a board-certified sleep medicine doctor and is currently the service chief of the sleep medicine at the Henry Ford sleep laboratory in Michigan.

She did her training in psychiatry at the Mayo clinic and a sleep fellowship at the Henry Ford hospital. She is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology as a psychiatrist and sleep medicine sub-specialist.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. This is Danny Lennon and you are listening to Sigma Nutrition Radio.
0:07.0	And today we're going to talk about various aspects of the role that sleep has in both physical
0:13.5	and psychological health as well as how psychological health and mental health factors can
0:20.5	play a role in themselves on sleep.
0:23.6	And so there's really kind of three main components that we're going to try and uncover,
0:28.6	all of which are important for particularly this time being in the middle of a global pandemic.
0:35.6	There's some typical questions or requests that people may have
0:39.3	that relate directly to some of the concepts we're going to be discovering. So the first of which
0:44.4	is going to be centered around the role of sleep in actual immune function and supporting the immune
0:50.3	system. What exactly is that role? How much of an impact does it have? And then how can we
0:55.7	support our physical health and specifically our immune function as best we can, because that has
1:01.5	implications for being able to mitigate our risk of contracting the virus or from developing worse
1:08.3	symptoms if we do have a viral infection. But beyond that, there's a
1:14.0	bidirectional relationship we'll discuss with some of the psychological factors and mental health.
1:20.3	So on one, the role that sleep has on those particularly component, those psychological components,
1:27.1	and then psychological factors such as, anxiety how they in turn impacts sleep trying to unravel that relationship and also pull that back to well what does that practically leave us with and so in order to untangle some of these complex ideas and get down to some practical recommendations
1:47.0	that we can use, coming on the podcast today is Dr. Amita Singh, who is a board-certified
1:52.3	sleep medicine doctor and is currently the service chief of sleep medicine at the Henry Ford
1:58.5	Sleep Laboratory in Michigan. We're going to have the show notes
2:03.4	this episode over at sigmautrition.com slash episode 3 to 8. So if you go there, you'll be able
2:10.0	to get any links relevant to today's discussion, a bit more of background on Dr. Singh, as well as
2:16.9	transcript to the episode. So that'll be over
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