May 6, 2024

HH287: Sleep-Overall Lifestyle Benefits Part 1

HH287: Sleep-Overall Lifestyle Benefits Part 1

Prioritizing quality sleep is crucial for optimizing both physical and mental health as well as supporting overall well being and longevity.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and Master Practitioner in NLP and Timeline Therapy and a Board Designated Hypnotherapy Teacher Trainer, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements.  Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Melissa is the winner of the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022 for Whistler.

Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 60 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.

 

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Transcript
Melissa Deally:

Welcome back to another episode of health hack as I continue the theme of sleep and why sleep is so critical for your health. So diving in today for the rest of this month, I'm going to be going through many factors that are improved when you get the right amount of sleep that you need for your body. Go back to Episode 391, in order to hear how much sleep you need based on your age. So prioritizing quality sleep is crucial for optimizing both physical and mental health as well as supporting overall well being and longevity. And starting out along those lines, I just want to talk about the fact that better sleep results in better regulation of your hormones, including those that are involved in your appetite, your growth, and your stress. And we're going to dive into each of these in more detail throughout the month. I just want to give you that overview right now. And if stress is a factor for you, you are not alone. And the more sleep you get, the more stress resilient you become. Getting the right amount of sleep also allows your body to be able to better regulate its body temperature. And that leads to a more restful sleep as well because the temperature of the room definitely impacts your sleep you know that if it's too hot on a hot summer night, you might have a hard time falling asleep. So body temperature regulation is important for good quality sleep and good quality good sleep leads to your body's ability to do that more effectively. Good quality sleep also leads to improve libido and sexual function. And of course everybody would like to enjoy that and you probably never connected, good quality sleep to your libido before. So keep coming back to these little health hacks throughout the month as I will continue to share the benefits of good quality sleep so that you are motivated to ensure and learn how to ensure you are getting the sleep that your body needs so that you can thrive and you can live a long, joyful, vibrant life