Cortisol, Blood Sugar & Improving Your Sleep Hygiene | Ep 204

The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast

Erin Holt

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.9 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Being healthy in today’s world can often come with a high price tag. Fortunately sleep doesn’t have to be one of those things, and in today’s episode Erin discusses the top three things that might be impeding your sleep at night and what you can do about them. From circadian rhythm to cortisol, bladder function to blood sugar, Erin highlights why making sure you’re getting the basics down is the very first thing you should be doing to improve sleep hygiene. If you have trouble falling asleep, if you often wake up at night needing to pee or wake up with a racing heart, or feel tired and sluggish no matter how many hours you slept, this will definitely be an episode for you to hear! In this episode: -Free wellness and starting with the basics [4:57] -Bladder health and night wakings [7:50] -The first place to start for better sleep [14:55] -The most important thing you can do to help regulate your circadian rhythm [17:34] -How cortisol is related to melatonin and sleep [22:12] -Reasons why cortisol might increase at night [27:12] -Is your dysregulated blood sugar waking you up at night? [30:40] -Pelvic floor health and sleep disruption [37:13] -The potential problem with Intermittent Fasting and sleep [39:02] -Nervine herbs to support our nervous system [41:31] -Effects of CBD and CBN on sleep [44:02] -The power of GABA and L-Theanine [46:06] -Should you use melatonin supplementation? [48:03] -Listener question about sleeping with window curtains open [51:12] FOR OUR FULL LIST OF LINKS + RESOURCES, HEAD TO: https://www.thefunktionalnutritionist.com/podcast/204-cortisol-blood-sugar-improving-sleep-hygiene

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Functional Nutrition Podcast. I'm your host, Erin Holt. I'm a functional
0:07.4	medicine nutritionist with a feisty attitude in over a decade of clinical experience. I work with
0:13.3	women all over the world through my online programs, and I'm also the founder of the Functional
0:18.9	Nutrition Academy, a 12-month practitioner mentorship
0:22.2	where I help other nutrition pros level up with functional medicine methodologies.
0:27.9	I've got a bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional healthcare model that are both
0:32.6	systematically failing so many of us. Creating a new model is my life's work, and this is what the show's all about.
0:40.4	Please keep in mind this podcast is created for educational purposes only and should never be
0:45.7	used as a replacement for medical diagnosis or treatment. If you like what you hear today,
0:50.9	I'd love for you to subscribe, leave a review in iTunes, share with a friend,
0:55.3	and keep coming back for more. Thanks for joining me. Now let's dive deep.
1:01.4	This episode is brought to you by our show's sponsor, Organify. I'm always looking for
1:07.5	kind of quick and dirty ways to pack in extra nutrition, polyphenols, antioxidants,
1:15.6	fibers for my gut, and even herbs for my stress response, like the more adaptogens, the better,
1:21.8	which is why I use organify powders every day, several times a day. I love to put them into my water. This is
1:30.7	great if you're one of those people that struggles to just get enough hydration, get enough
1:35.3	water. And if you feel like water's really boring, these powders can judge it up for you. My kiddo
1:40.8	loves them. She feels like she's drinking juice. I also throw them into my smoothies just as a way to get some extra nutrition.
1:49.2	My personal favorite is the red juice.
1:51.7	So it has lots of different red powders, things like asaii, cranberry,
1:58.7	pomegranate, strawberry, raspberry,
2:01.1	blueberry, all of those
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