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Speaker 1: healthier and in this case, healing, maybe from injury, maybe
Speaker 1: from surgery, whatever it may be, there are things that
Speaker 1: you can do to make yourself heal faster. So Tricia
Speaker 1: say hi to Jason.
Speaker 2: Hi, Jason, Well we got today. Jason.
Speaker 1: Wait, this is interesting to me things you can do
Speaker 1: to help the healing process.
Speaker 3: So the thing that I went and you know, I
Speaker 3: got to say, whenever we weren't recording, Tricia just popped
Speaker 3: in as the teacher's pet and she said, I bet
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about sleep, and she nailed it
Speaker 3: is it is top line. And that's why I said
Speaker 3: in the teaser that it may seem boring, it may
Speaker 3: seem simple, but to the listener out there, if you
Speaker 3: have a back injury, if you have a hip injury,
Speaker 3: if you're recovering from surgery, I don't care what it
Speaker 3: is the number one thing you can do to effectively
Speaker 3: recover is get good quality sleep. Now, Sandy, if you
Speaker 3: want me to, I can talk a little bit about
Speaker 3: and I didn't mean for this to be a sleep episode,
Speaker 3: but we can talk a little bit about what effective
Speaker 3: sleep is. How you can tell because not all sleep
Speaker 3: is created equals, so we can go into some of that.
Speaker 2: Let's do that.
Speaker 1: Let's do that because it is so important, and I
Speaker 1: struggle with sleep. I seem to be cyclical with my sleeping.
Speaker 1: I go, you know, a week or so of great sleep,
Speaker 1: and then I go a week of getting terrible sleep.
Speaker 1: So anything you can tell me and the people listening
Speaker 1: to help, I'm all in.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you some very easy and obvious
Speaker 3: tactics to make sure that you at least start getting
Speaker 3: yourself into a better sleep routine. So, first of all,
Speaker 3: figure out when the two hour mark is before sleep.
Speaker 3: So if you're somebody that goes to sleep regularly at
Speaker 3: ten o'clock, then around eight o'clock you should start preparing
Speaker 3: yourself for sleep. So here's what that looks like. I
Speaker 3: would start dimming the lights in your house. I would
Speaker 3: make sure your house is below seventy two degrees, getting
Speaker 3: nice and cool and wherever your bedroom is, if you
Speaker 3: have a zoned temperature system, get your bedroom as cool
Speaker 3: and dark as possible. Put your phone down, put your
Speaker 3: computer down, get the screens away. This has like you,
Speaker 3: whenever we see that blue light that is on our
Speaker 3: phone or our computer, our brain and our circadian rhythm
Speaker 3: will process that as daylight, and that's telling our brain
Speaker 3: it's still daytime. We still have to stay alert, so
Speaker 3: get rid of that. And also there's just a stimulating effect.
Speaker 3: Can you want to start calming yourself down? So that's
Speaker 3: what I would start doing first and foremost, about two
Speaker 3: hours before bedtime, start preparing yourself for sleep. Then, if
Speaker 3: you want to take it to the next level, let's
Speaker 3: talk about how you prepare your bedroom for sleep. First
Speaker 3: of all, all right, get ready, all right, keep the
Speaker 3: TV off, make it cold, make it dark, and do
Speaker 3: not take your phone to the bedroom. I cannot begin
Speaker 3: to tell you how important this is if you will
Speaker 3: just take these precursors. Oh and one more thing, guys,
Speaker 3: did I highly highly suggest to get your circadian real
Speaker 3: rhythm dialed in. Don't eat at that eight o'clock mark. Again,
Speaker 3: if you're somebody that goes to bed at ten o'clock.
Speaker 3: At eight o'clock when you start preparing for your sleep,
Speaker 3: one of the first steps for preparation stop eating. Don't
Speaker 3: eat after eight o'clock because you need time to let
Speaker 3: your digestion happen and occur naturally smoothly. And look, you're
Speaker 3: gonna keep your body awake that much longer internally if
Speaker 3: you eat it like that, Like the midnight snack, it's
Speaker 3: one of the worst things for your circadian rhythm. Don't
Speaker 3: drink alcohol. Do not drink alcohol before bed. These are
Speaker 3: just some of the steps that you can take to
Speaker 3: make sure you're gonna get a good night's sleep.
Speaker 4: A lot of people, too, are midnight snackers, like go
Speaker 4: to sleep and then we'll wake up and think, I
Speaker 4: can't go back to sleep until I have a little snack,
Speaker 4: a little bite of something. They're not doing themselves any
Speaker 4: favors or what if they're able to go right back
Speaker 4: to sleep after.
Speaker 2: Still they shouldn't do it, because here's the thing.
Speaker 3: You may be your eyes might be shut and you
Speaker 3: may be technically asleep, but what you're doing is your
Speaker 3: circadian rhythm is still wide away because you're having to
Speaker 3: digest food, and so you're throwing your circadian rhythm off.
Speaker 3: And I know we don't have the time to go
Speaker 3: into circadian rhythm completely, but it is so important to
Speaker 3: figure out exactly what your body's natural rhythm is and
Speaker 3: to try to manage your lifestyle in conjunction with it.
Speaker 2: It is so important.
Speaker 3: It will give you more energy, it will give you
Speaker 3: that recovery that you're looking for, just from the day
Speaker 3: to day activity that we go through every day, but
Speaker 3: especially going back to where this started. If you're trying
Speaker 3: to heal from injury, you have got to get your
Speaker 3: body in its best state for recovery. And the best
Speaker 3: way to do that is plenty of deep sleep and
Speaker 3: rem sleep if you can expand those and by the way, guys,
Speaker 3: even if you're not injured, I tell people that you
Speaker 3: should treat your sleep the way you treat your diet,
Speaker 3: the way you treat your training.
Speaker 2: It is that important.
Speaker 3: A lot of people just take it for granted to
Speaker 3: think I'd sleep, I lay down, to close myles, to
Speaker 3: go to sleep.
Speaker 2: Get your sleep dialed in. You will be so glad
Speaker 2: you do. I could speak quickly.
Speaker 1: You mentioned alcohol. As a former professional consumer of alcohol,
Speaker 1: I can tell you this and as a person that
Speaker 1: hasn't had a drink in eight and a half years.
Speaker 1: I can tell you this, you will sleep better when
Speaker 1: you don't drink. A lot of people that drink like,
Speaker 1: there's no way I can get the sleep if I
Speaker 1: don't drink.
Speaker 4: Drink it helps me relax, it helps you calm down.
Speaker 1: It's BS, it's complete BS. And once you get past those,
Speaker 1: those first few days could be rough. If you do drink,
Speaker 1: you might not get to sleep, but about everybody's different.
Speaker 1: At some point you'll notice you get much much better
Speaker 1: sleep than you ever did.
Speaker 3: When you're drinking. One hundred percent. Study after study shows
Speaker 3: that one of the greatest disruptors of sleep is alcohol.
Speaker 3: So you are one on the money.
Speaker 2: With that much.
Speaker 1: No, it was awful for me because I used to
Speaker 1: have to get it up and wake up the middle
Speaker 1: of night to have a drink. It was terrible.
Speaker 2: It really, really really disrupting before me. Yeah, it's very disruptive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that can be a problem. That can be a
Speaker 3: problem for sure. Well, and look, you know, I go ahead, hip, now,
Speaker 3: go ahead, Jason. Sorry, I just want to say, you know,
Speaker 3: Sandy alluded to it. Guys, I'm practicing what I preached
Speaker 3: right now. I've gone through a couple of jaw surgery
Speaker 3: since I last talked to you, and one of the
Speaker 3: first things that I did is part of my recovery,
Speaker 3: especially since I couldn't train the way that I'm used
Speaker 3: to is I focused on sleep. I knew that if
Speaker 3: I couldn't get out and train and move my the
Speaker 3: way they normally do and the way that I encourage
Speaker 3: all of you to do, that the best way to
Speaker 3: heal quickly and effectively was to get sleep. So and
Speaker 3: I actually measure my sleep, Sandy and Trish, there's a
Speaker 3: couple of ways you can do that. I wear an
Speaker 3: aural ring. There are some great tools and wearables that
Speaker 3: you can use. Your Apple phone or excuse me, your
Speaker 3: Apple Watch actually has a feature on there that'll help
Speaker 3: you at least start to figure out in my sleep score.
Speaker 3: And I don't be like me and get all ocd
Speaker 3: about it. I'm probably over the top, but at least
Speaker 3: try to get an understanding of what the things are
Speaker 3: that you're doing that might disrupt your sleep so you
Speaker 3: can eliminate them. And then if you put some of
Speaker 3: these practices in place that I told you about, then
Speaker 3: make those see the results quantitatively figure out if I
Speaker 3: do this, if I take a hot bath, if I
Speaker 3: start shutting it down at eight o'clock, if I don't drink,
Speaker 3: if I turn the TV off, I turn the lights down,
Speaker 3: if I get the air cold in my bedroom. Wow,
Speaker 3: look at that, my sleep score is climbing. Then that's
Speaker 3: going to encourage you to do these things more and more.
Speaker 3: And I guarantee you will be more alert, you'll feel better.
Speaker 3: And here's the thing too, Sandy and Trish, this is
Speaker 3: going to have an impact on your blood sugar levels.
Speaker 3: This is going to have an impact on your insulin resistance,
Speaker 3: is going to make you more insulin sensitive, which is
Speaker 3: what we want. It has such a great impact on
Speaker 3: your overall health it cannot be understated.
Speaker 2: Jason Wright is our guest.
Speaker 1: You can check them out the Jason Wright Show and
Speaker 1: the podcast and also the Healthy CEO podcast. Something that
Speaker 1: I did with my sleep and everybody's got those camp
Speaker 1: I've got a little motion camera that's portable. It's the
Speaker 1: Blink camera from Amazon. I set it up in my
Speaker 1: room facing my bed, and I just wanted to see
Speaker 1: how much I moved around in the night. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: I was like, holy crap, it's no wonder you're not
Speaker 1: getting any sleep. You're flailing all over the place.
Speaker 4: It is no wonder why you and I do not
Speaker 4: share the same bed. I haven't for years. It's like
Speaker 4: he's fought with some in the morning. It's like remaking
Speaker 4: the bed froom scratch every day. Yeah, he is a flailer.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 1: It's the best thing we did in our marriage, for sure.
Speaker 1: All Right, Jason Writ's our guest. Do you have time
Speaker 1: for another segment? We need to take a quick break,
Speaker 1: but do you have more on healing? I know you
Speaker 1: were talking about infrared stuff and some other kinds of stuff,
Speaker 1: So stick around. We've got more with Jason Wright coming up.
Speaker 1: Jason Wright is our guest today and we are talking
Speaker 1: about things you can do that will help you heal faster.
Speaker 1: And I'm assuming is there a way to heal better?
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, but things that you can do.
Speaker 1: And one thing that we touched on earlier was the
Speaker 1: top of the list top line is the importance of
Speaker 1: getting good sleep. Okay, and if you miss that, make
Speaker 1: sure you grab the Sandy Show podcast. We'll make it
Speaker 1: available for you later on after the show. Today and
Speaker 1: you can get all those sleep tips, but let's talk
Speaker 1: about other things that you can do that help healing.
Speaker 2: What you got.
Speaker 3: The things that I want to talk to people about
Speaker 3: that is is kind of it's been on the scene
Speaker 3: for a while, but I still touch to a lot
Speaker 3: of people and they don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: And that's red light therapy. That's what a lot of
Speaker 2: people here is.
Speaker 3: They go to these places and they got they know
Speaker 3: cold therapy, they know cold plunging because everybody does it
Speaker 3: on Instagram and everything like that. But it's not as
Speaker 3: cool to sit in front of an infrared infrared light. However,
Speaker 3: one of the things that I have done, and I'm
Speaker 3: a firm believer in, is red light therapy, and that's infrared.
Speaker 3: And here's the reason why. One you're going to increase
Speaker 3: your blood circulation. Infrared light is going to penetrate the skin,
Speaker 3: it's going to heat tissue, and it's going to promote
Speaker 3: increase blood flow, very important to healing. It's going to
Speaker 3: help you reduce inflammation. So because I had surgery on
Speaker 3: my jaw, I've got the infrared coming in on my
Speaker 3: face because I want to lower inflammation, lower the swelling faster,
Speaker 3: increase the circulation, so the infrared will actually help with that.
Speaker 3: It's also going to help with cellular repair. The infrared
Speaker 3: light is going to stimulate the cellular repair process, it's
Speaker 3: going to enhance production of ATP, which is very important,
Speaker 3: and it's going to provide energy to yourselves promoting tissue
Speaker 3: regeneration and repair.
Speaker 2: So that's something that you can really that you can
Speaker 2: really it's easy to do.
Speaker 3: Literally, fifteen minutes in front of an infrared light can
Speaker 3: have a profound impact. And in fact, it was funny
Speaker 3: when I was talking to my oral surgeon about the
Speaker 3: things that I planned to do to try to heal
Speaker 3: faster and heal my face faster, which he was shocked
Speaker 3: at how fast the swelling went down. I told him,
Speaker 3: I said, well, I'm going to use infrared, and he
Speaker 3: had no idea. I mean, this is the surgeon and
Speaker 3: the medical professional professional had no idea which light to use,
Speaker 3: what the benefits of infrared were. And that's why folks
Speaker 3: don't take it for granted that your physician might know
Speaker 3: they know a lot of things, but the tips and
Speaker 3: tricks like this, go research for yourself because there are
Speaker 3: things that once they've done the major work. Like once
Speaker 3: he got through breaking both of my jaws and resetting
Speaker 3: them and getting helping me get my teeth back in shape,
Speaker 3: then it's up to us to figure out these tools
Speaker 3: and tactics to get better. And infrared is one of
Speaker 3: those that I'm a firm believer. And this is for
Speaker 3: muscular repair. If you've got a bad back. I've used
Speaker 3: it on my shoulder. It's just I'm a believer.
Speaker 4: It is the same thing, if I'm not mistaken, as
Speaker 4: the infrared masks that you can buy for your face
Speaker 4: to make your skin tighter, look younger, and more collagen.
Speaker 2: Is it the same That's the same thing, right, Sure thing,
Speaker 2: Sure thing, it's the exact same thing.
Speaker 3: And now just make sure that you go to a
Speaker 3: really good quality one that's going to have kind of
Speaker 3: the director for red as well as the indirect like
Speaker 3: probably the best in class is Jeve. I have no
Speaker 3: financial affiliation with jew whatsoever, and that's jo v V.
Speaker 2: I believe I've got that right.
Speaker 3: But they're probably one of the longest players, one of
Speaker 3: the most reputable brands. I do think that they make
Speaker 3: a facial one higher dose. I have an infrared blanket,
Speaker 3: which is like a sleeping bag that you can get
Speaker 3: in that's infra red. If you don't want to spend
Speaker 3: the money on a sauna, you can get a infrared
Speaker 3: uh like bags like kind of blanket for five hundred bucks,
Speaker 3: which is a pretty cost effective way. I do think
Speaker 3: that higher dose also has the the max masks as well,
Speaker 3: So yeah, and there. It's just a great thing to
Speaker 3: add to your everyday protocol. One thing too, that I
Speaker 3: cannot overstate is this you're new, you hear the old.
Speaker 3: It's almost like cliche at this point that food is medicine.
Speaker 3: When you're trying to heal, make sure that you are
Speaker 3: eating as clean of a diet and as low inflammatory
Speaker 3: food as possible. That means stay away from those industrial seeduls.
Speaker 3: Don't eat French fries, don't eat tater tots, don't eat
Speaker 3: fried foods.
Speaker 4: Don't eat sometimes the only thing that makes you feel
Speaker 4: better when you're not feeling.
Speaker 3: Let's get you healed, and then we will get you
Speaker 3: all the French fries and hush puppies and everything else
Speaker 3: you want.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3: We are going to lower inflammation we want We don't.
Speaker 3: You've got enough inflammation from the injury, right, we don't
Speaker 3: want to add fuel to the fire.
Speaker 1: Can I ask a quick question. You mentioned something that
Speaker 1: is super trendy right now. It's been around forever, but
Speaker 1: really popular right now. Is sauna? Is I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: that is the new cold plunge? Really, what are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on that?
Speaker 3: It's it's absolutely proven. Study after study shows that sauna
Speaker 3: has a profound impact again on cellular repair, blood flow.
Speaker 2: It does does, there's so many benefits to it.
Speaker 3: It So I say sauna, and I guess it's the
Speaker 3: Scandinavian countries, which are you know, everybody has a sauna
Speaker 3: and they and they have they were kind of the
Speaker 3: the ogs of the sauna movement, and it has there's
Speaker 3: a lot of studies from the Norwegian countries and Scandinavian
Speaker 3: countries that show the benefits of it. And Peter Attiya,
Speaker 3: who is a physician there in Austin where you guys are,
Speaker 3: who I who wrote the book Outlived, phenomenal, brilliant guy.
Speaker 3: One of the things that Attia does before he goes
Speaker 3: to bed every single night is part of his preparation
Speaker 3: is to get into his he goes sauna, shower to
Speaker 3: bed and so absolutely Sandy, I am very bullish on sauna.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I've got my sauna blanket now.
Speaker 3: But Gimlin and I we are actually going to put
Speaker 3: a sauna in our house, and just as a caveat.
Speaker 3: If somebody out there is wondering do I go with
Speaker 3: the old school dry sauna or an infrared. The infrared,
Speaker 3: it shows most studies are showing that it does have
Speaker 3: a little bit better effect on some of the mitochondrial
Speaker 3: health and some of the things we're talking about. So
Speaker 3: if you're trying to decide do I go old school
Speaker 3: dry sauna just heat, or do I go infrared for repair?
Speaker 3: I think now, check me out. Check out everything I
Speaker 3: tell you, always check me. Don't take it as gospel,
Speaker 3: but everything, all the literature I've read and I'm shopping
Speaker 3: right now says that infrared is a little more beneficial.
Speaker 3: Are the things that we're talking about.
Speaker 2: Tricia, what'd you have for Jason? As we wrap up?
Speaker 2: Did you I like we're gonna say something about sauna.
Speaker 4: No, I've just heard back in the day there like
Speaker 4: you should get in a sauna because it helps you
Speaker 4: sweat out the toxins in your body. I feel like
Speaker 4: this information about the cell repair and the blood flow
Speaker 4: and helping healing and stuff like that. Like, it's just
Speaker 4: a new another aspect of why saunas can be good
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent. And one of the things to you mentioned,
Speaker 3: you kind of repeated something back to me that I'm
Speaker 3: sure your audience has noticed. I will talk about a lot,
Speaker 3: and that is cellular, cellular, cellular, managing your body at
Speaker 3: the cellular level. When you start to do that, that's
Speaker 3: when it's a game changer. It's not just about your
Speaker 3: overall cardiovascular system and your muscular system. It's about figuring
Speaker 3: out these things like sauna and working on inflammation to
Speaker 3: try to manage your body at the cellular level. That's
Speaker 3: really going to take you to the next level of health.
Speaker 3: So please don't underestimate the value of looking and understanding
Speaker 3: and having healthy am out of Andrea Healthy Fat Sales.
Speaker 3: All this thing will lead to a much, much, much
Speaker 3: better and healthier life. He is Jason Wright. He knows
Speaker 3: his stuff. Guys just can make us all live forever. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, find him the Jason Wright Show. The podcast
Speaker 3: also the very popular Healthy CEO podcast, which is available
Speaker 3: everywhere that you get podcasts and Jason, you and I
Speaker 3: we'll all talk again next week.
Speaker 2: Sounds wonderful. Thank you guys for having me as an honor.
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