Dealing with Insomnia.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I share the tips I've used for dealing with interrupted sleep and insomnia over the years. One in four people suffer with sleep issues and it's not a lot of fun, but there are a few small lifestyle tweaks that can make a huge difference to your quality and quantity of sleep.
- Blue Light has a Dark Side via Harvard Medical School.
- Understanding the Body's Internal Clock via Sleep.org.
- How Exercise Impacts Sleep Quality via National Sleep Foundation.
- What is Intermittent Fasting and Will it Help your Sleep?
- Guided Meditation for Sleep by Kirsty Raynor. Yoga for Bedtime by Adriene Mishler.
- This Works Pillow Spray and Sleepy Time Tea.
- I Tried Tidying up every day before bed for 32 day and here's what happened...
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the podcast is brought to you in partnership with Sensodyne. |
| 0:04.4 | You may have heard in the podcast last week that I took part in a chill test with dentist Anita Sandu. |
| 0:10.6 | This is her area of expertise and she guided me through drinking ice cold water, |
| 0:15.0 | eating a slice of fresh apple and taking a bite out of a trock ice, |
| 0:20.0 | all with the purpose of learning about my teeth sensitivity. Now I knew I had some sensitivity but it was really helpful |
| 0:26.1 | learning from Anita the reasons why, the foods that can cause that sharp feeling of sensitivity, |
| 0:31.1 | and the changes I can make to minimize any discomfort moving forward. |
| 0:35.0 | Since the chill test I've been using Senser Dine Repair and Protect Toothpaste, |
| 0:39.0 | it's clinically proven to provide long lasting protection for sensitive teeth with twice daily brushing, |
| 0:44.2 | and is expertly formulated to generate a protective layer over exposed areas of your teeth |
| 0:48.8 | to help protect you from the pain of sensitive teeth. |
| 0:51.5 | So if like me you've struggled with sensitive teeth, go get yourself |
| 0:54.4 | some sensodyne repair and protect now. Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emmer Gunn Show. I am your host, Emma Gunner, and in this episode let's talk about sleep. |
| 1:15.1 | Sleep is such a wonderful thing. It's one of my favorite things actually, but I like |
| 1:22.0 | many people and that's around one in four of us, have experienced |
| 1:26.2 | bouts of interrupted sleep and insomnia. And it can be crippling. When my insomnia was at its worst I was getting to sleep |
| 1:36.9 | perfectly well maybe at around 11 o'clock in the evening but waking up at 2 a.m. |
| 1:41.3 | and then I was wide awake, only able to fall asleep at around, I don't know, |
| 1:46.2 | six or seven in the morning when I should have been getting up to go to the gym. |
| 1:50.1 | Now that might not seem like a big deal, but in terms of my lifestyle that had a massive impact because I stopped going to the gym |
| 1:56.8 | Because I was in my deepest sleep when my alarm was going off so I started snoozing and so instead of being on the treadmill or in the |
| 2:04.4 | weights room I was you know under the covers having a good old snore so in terms of the |
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