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Dhru Purohit Show

Uncovering The Root Cause of Sleep Issues and How to Improve Your Sleep Today with Shawn Stevenson

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Birch Mattress by Helix and BiOptimizers Magnesium Breakthrough. Sleep is one of our most basic human needs, and we’re constantly learning more about how it impacts human health. We’re also learning more about ways to improve it.  On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Shawn Stevenson to talk about the intersections of light exposure, temperature regulation, nutrition, and sleep.  Shawn Stevenson is the author of the international bestselling book Sleep Smarter and his latest book, Eat Smarter, and the creator of The Model Health Show, one of the top health podcasts in the world! He is the founder of Advanced Integrative Health Alliance, a company that provides wellness services for individuals and organizations worldwide. Shawn has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, Muscle & Fitness, ESPN, and many other major media outlets. He is also an in-demand keynote speaker for numerous organizations, universities, and conferences.  In this episode, Dhru and Shawn dive into: -How artificial light interrupts our circadian rhythm and sleep quality (0:57) -Sleeping smart vs. sleeping dumb (10:41) -How morning exercise impacts sleep quality (22:49) -When and why sun exposure affects sleep (25:27) -The benefits of taking a magnesium supplement (32:09) Listen to the full episode here. For more on Shawn Stevenson, follow him on Instagram @shawnmodel, Facebook @themodelhealthshow, Twitter @shawnmodel, YouTube @shawnstevenson, and through his website, https://www.themodelhealthshow.com. Birch mattress by Helix is made out of organic latex, organic cotton, New Zealand wool, and American steel springs. To get 20% off your Birch Living mattress, head over to https://www.birchliving.com/dhru today. Magnesium Breakthrough really stands out from the other magnesium supplements out there. BiOptimizers is offering my community 10% off + a special gift with purchase, just head over to https://www.magbreakthrough.com/dhru, with code DHRU10. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, Drew Proit here today with another fantastic mini episode.

0:06.3

These are where we take some of our top episodes and we break them down into bite size episodes

0:11.5

which make it easier for you to get all the nuggets, all the wisdom.

0:16.1

Today we have Sean Stevenson and he's here to talk about sleep.

0:20.1

Here's what Sean is going to go into on today's mini episode.

0:23.3

He's going to talk about the most common misconceptions people have about sleep quality.

0:28.1

The things that are messing up our sleep quality, things that sometimes I do, I try to

0:33.3

be aware of it and probably you do, but it's throwing your sleep quality off.

0:38.4

The importance of light exposure, first thing in the morning and the supplements that can

0:42.7

support a deeper, more restful night sleep.

0:46.4

If you know about sleep but you need to dial it in a little bit, but you need a little

0:50.2

bit of motivation, Sean is your guy and I'm excited for you to listen to today's mini

0:54.5

episode.

0:56.7

Sean Stevenson, welcome back to the podcast.

0:59.5

A pleasure to have you here in the new studio.

1:01.9

We're talking all about sleep today and the things that consistently mess people's sleep

1:07.9

up that even though there's been so much content, books, podcasts on the topic of sleep,

1:13.7

you look around, people are still suffering.

1:16.6

What are a couple of things right off the top that you think that people don't get when

1:21.7

it comes to the quality of their sleep?

1:24.7

Yeah, that's a perfect question because there's a bigger picture.

1:28.5

We think it's these little things that we can micromanage, but if we step back and look

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