Put on Some Weight for Better Sleep and Less Stress – Baloo Living with Dave Asprey : 759

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

Fat, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Biohacking, Lifestyle, Diet, Science, Self-improvement, Fasting, Nutrition, Hacking, Fitness, Brain, Wellness, Education

4.6 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, my guest is a seeker with a success story. And that story includes creating a weighted blanket that will change the way you sleep.

After 15 years searching for fulfillment through her career—in politics, publishing, finance and start-ups, Elizabeth Grojean detached from life in the city to look within. She headed to Bali where she focused on meditation, yoga, healing and finding a new way of living—one rooted in connection, generosity and mindfulness.

On that foundation, she created the sleep and wellness company Baloo Living and launched a weighted blanket as her first product. It's a year-round self-care tool.

Studies show that pressure touch stimulates serotonin in the body. By using a weighted blanket, “it becomes faster and easier to go to sleep,” Elizabeth explains. “There's a very subtle but sudden physical, physiological response that happens. The pressure on the body is letting you know that it's safe to relax that fight or flight response.”

Within months of its 2018 launch, Baloo earned a reputation as one of the top brands on the market, where it remains. Elizabeth doesn’t compromise when it comes to materials or experience.

“The idea of doing something good for yourself by using a bag of plastic felt so negative to me in terms of the environmental aspect of that,” she says. “Energetically, I just didn't like the idea of that at all.” Instead, Baloo’s blankets use materials certified to be free of chemicals and toxins.

From tips on finding yourself, entrepreneurship and how to ease your anxiety and sleep better with a weighted blanket, you’re going to learn a lot in this episode from Elizabeth’s path.

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0:00.0	Boatproof Radio, a state of high performance.
0:06.0	You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.
0:09.8	Today we're going to talk about sleep and we're going to talk about stress.
0:15.4	And it's probably not what you think.
0:18.9	Because today's guest is someone who didn't know that she would start out looking at
0:23.5	either one of those things.
0:25.6	After 15 years of grinding it out in politics, in publishing, in finance, and all this stuff,
0:31.5	Elizabeth Grojan detected that she was really not that happy about things.
0:36.3	So she did what any thoughtful entrepreneur or type minded person would do.
0:40.7	She ran away to Bali.
0:43.1	And there she spent time getting in touch with stress.
0:46.3	If this sounds familiar to you guys, I kind of did the same thing.
0:50.1	After I got me an MBA, I went off to Nepal and Tibet because at a certain point, I'm
0:54.0	done.
0:55.0	But she went into meditation and yoga and healing and figured out what was going on and
1:00.8	said, all right, how do I do something right and something that's going to improve sleep?
1:04.7	And she came out with the first and only non-toxic weighted blanket, which is what we're
1:11.2	going to talk about today, which is about stress and sleep and the path of becoming an
1:15.7	entrepreneur.
1:16.7	And a lot of things that you can use for your own knowledge around sleep.
1:21.2	And yes, before we get going, I actually sleep underneath a balloon blanket every night
1:25.8	because, well, you can measure that it works, which is something I like.
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