Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast.

I'm your host, Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.

My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the health and wellness industry each week and impact over a million lives.

This is the start of a new Thursday series called The Midlife Minute that is really designed to address listeners questions in a little bit longer

length of time and or deeper dive into topics.

Ideally, we're going to keep these podcasts under 20 minutes.

Occasionally, we may go over to 30, but I'm trying to reinforce some key concepts and ensure that I'm addressing listeners' questions

in a way that's really helpful.

So the questions that I will be addressing topics are going to be items that I'm being asked over and over and over again.

I hope you enjoy this series.

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questions to support at cynthiathurlow.com. I appreciate each and every listener.

Welcome back to the next midlife minute. This one is sleep centric. Think about it as a sleep

master class because this is such a big pain point for middle-aged

women. I took a lot of your questions, created a kind of formal presentation for myself.

So you will see me kind of looking down and it's because I'm looking at research that I

pulled for this conversation. Obviously, big pain point, a lot of things to discuss. Okay. This is a quote

by Matthew Walker, who's a researcher. The decimation of sleep throughout the industrialized

nations is having a catastrophic impact on our health, our life expectancy, our safety,

our productivity, and the education of our children.

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