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The Model Health Show

TMHS 841: Unlock Better Sleep: The Surprising Role of Gut Health & Toxins in Insomnia | Dr. Pedram Shojai

The Model Health Show

Shawn Stevenson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Motivation, Wellness, Nutrition, Health, Sex, Selfhelp

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Dealing with suboptimal sleep can have damaging effects on your daily life, hormones, cognitive function, and so much more. In our culture, we often resort to things like sleeping pills or melatonin supplements just to get some rest. But taking the time to uncover the true root cause of insomnia or other sleep related problems can lead to not only a permanent resolution of the problem, but also a host of positive downstream effects.

On this episode of The Model Health Show, I’m sitting down with New York Times bestselling author, producer, former monk, and physician Dr. Pedram Shojai. Dr. Shojai is sharing the fascinating connection between endotoxemia and sleep, why safety is a critical signal for healing, and so much more.

We’re going to discuss how our modern world contributes to so much dysfunction, what it takes to facilitate healing, and how to create a safe home. Dr. Shojai has a ton of knowledge in the realm of functional medicine, gut health, and mindfulness; I know you’re going to love the insights he shared in our conversation. Enjoy! 

 

In this episode you’ll discover: 

  • The percentage of the population is struggling with insomnia and sleep disorders. 

  • What endotoxemia is, and its connection to sleep issues.  

  • Why the body must feel safe in order to heal.  

  • The role the microbiome plays in immune system dysfunction.  

  • How the gut lining can become compromised over time with small damages.  

  • What the internal and external triggers of safety can be.  

  • Why many people have more freedom with their diet and habits on vacation.  

  • The importance of building a safe sleep space.  

  • A powerful question you can ask to transform your health.  

  • How our devices have disconnected us from our bodies.  

  • The role clock genes play in regulating sleep.  

  • Why the liver plays an important role in detoxifying the body and brain.  

  • The truth about blue light.  

  • What the cancer of the home is. 

  • Chemicals to avoid in your mattress and bedding.  

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson. For more, visit the modelhealth

0:06.5

show.com. It's during sleep that we have radical changes to our brains and our bodies. There are

0:17.1

dramatic changes in what's happening with our hormones, our immune system, and even our body's detoxification pathways.

0:23.6

In fact, it's during sleep that our glial cells in our brain are effectively detoxifying our brain or removing a lot of metabolic waste products,

0:33.6

cleaning house and making room for new growth.

0:36.6

Now, what happens when we don't have that

0:39.4

downtime for our brains to do that process? Because our brains are 10 times more active cleaning

0:46.3

house with those glial cells during sleep than when we're awake. Well, a lot of mess is going to

0:52.4

tend to pile up and also the ability for our brain to thrive,

0:57.1

to grow, to develop, and have a clean environment to exist and operate in period is going to

1:03.8

be stifled.

1:05.3

Now why does this matter?

1:06.4

Well, today we have epidemics of all manner of sleep dysfunction, including skyrocketing

1:12.3

rates of insomnia. Data published in the peer-review journal Sleep has found that in the United

1:17.9

States, the annual prevalence of insomnia symptoms affect 35 to up to 50% of the population.

1:28.2

And clinical insomnia disorders have been reported to be 10 to up to 22% of the U.S. population.

1:36.8

Rates of insomnia have been on the rise worldwide, not just in the United States, but other countries are still faring better.

1:42.9

For example, the prevalence of insomnia

1:45.3

symptoms in Korea was reported to be 17 to 23% of the population versus for us up to 50%. And insomnia

1:54.6

diagnoses is about 5% of the population versus again up to 22% of our population. And on this powerful episode

2:02.4

of the Model Health show, we're going to be looking at some of the very surprising foundational

2:07.9

causes of insomnia, of our epidemics of sleep disturbances. And I'm telling you right now,

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