Sleep & Weight Loss Connection

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Education, Health & Fitness:nutrition, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.3 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

After considerable sleep research, sleep has been shown to be one of the most important and perhaps one of the least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Our show topic this week is how lack of sleep slows your metabolism. The ideal amount of sleep for weight loss is between 7 ½ to 9 hours most nights, so if you aren’t getting adequate sleep, tune in! We are offering steps for getting better quality sleep by covering what foods and drinks cause us to wake up, sleep supplements many find helpful, research findings, and actions steps you can try right away.

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0:00.0	My name is Cassie Wienis.
0:01.7	I'm a registered and licensed dietitian, and it goes without saying that I love working for
0:06.8	nutritional weight and wellness because every day I get to help people make real food choices
0:12.8	that help improve their health and their quality of life.
0:16.9	And I know my co-host feels the same.
0:19.3	Joining me in studio today is Brittany Vincent.
0:22.0	Brittany is also a registered and licensed dietitian, and she is one busy lady.
0:27.5	She not only has an active caseload, seeing clients at the office, but she's a mom to 11-month-old, wait for it, twins, twin girls, and she also has a two-and-a-half-year-old
0:39.9	son. Brittany is a wealth of knowledge and has a lot of clinical experience to share, so I'm
0:44.6	excited to be on air with her this morning. And with that, welcome, Brittany. Good morning. Yes,
0:51.5	it's fun to be on air with you. It's been a while. It's been a long time. Well, if you're a long time listener, you have heard we've had many shows in dishing up nutrition about sleep and giving listeners lots of great information. But so many people have ongoing sleep problems. And for a lot of those individuals,
1:13.3	you really just need to make an appointment, get some individualized recommendations. But today we're
1:20.8	going to provide some suggestions and a lot of science behind it too. But for some, the answer is extra magnesium glycinate puts them into a deeper sleep and
1:33.7	it just does the trick for them.
1:35.3	I love magnesium glycinate and I don't travel without it either because, yeah, it helps
1:40.5	with my sleep for sure.
1:42.2	Yeah, it is great.
1:48.8	Sometimes, you know, people need 5-HDP or add extra calcium, but lots of different solutions and generally speaking, we can help you find an answer
1:56.8	to get better sleep. Yes. And today, mostly, at least in the first half of the show,
2:03.8	we're going to focus on the whys.
2:06.2	Why does a lack of sleep often lead to that unwanted weight gain?
2:11.7	And I love that that's what we're focusing on,
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