Embracing Routine for Better Sleep and Skin Health | 3min snip from The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast

Speaker 1
And now I'm a teacher, trainer, published researcher, and all of that. But it really bumped me off that track to then live a more slower, more peaceful life. And a lot of times, especially in modern times, we put this on a pedestal of living that jet set life. That's when you know that you've made it. But really, I think we've made it when we can set our routines up for success. When we are in a more stable environment, we're not constantly traveling and different time zones and things like that, that's going to be more conducive to having better sleep with having a more routine AM and PM nighttime and AM rising time also. And getting back to the 90% breakdown of what I do at home, this was really interesting to notice that once I included all the biohacking and really actually ramped up what I do at home, there was something that I started to notice with some of my clients that when I started the industry, we're doing things like dermal rolling and at-home microneedling in their PM routine before going to sleep. They have the best skin. And these were men and women in their 60s to 90s, often retirees. They didn't have a lot of money to do various rejuvenation, but they were really consistent with doing their dermal rolling. And then I started to integrate that into my routine. And previously would have to do neuromodulator injectables every three to six months, fillers every year. And now that's, you know, very infrequent for me. And one neat thing that actually came out of the pandemic was the ability for companies to actually make at-home peels available.
Speaker 2
You
Speaker 1
don't have to go into the clinic anymore once a month to get a facial or a peel. You can actually do this at home. And the reason I like this is there are a number of peels I work with that have five ingredients that are fruit acid peels and are actually a lot less toxic and more cost effective and also time saving too that we can do at home. And then also one of the things that I noticed about taking skin nutraceuticals backed by 18 plus years of research from different companies that I sell their products of, I take them before bed and then I also sleep better. So that's another really interesting thing that I do is I take a majority of my supplements before going to bed. Because sometimes when you take certain supplements, they can upset your stomach if you take them in the AM on an empty stomach. And that was something I sort of stumbled upon adding into my PM routine and my home care for having better skin was that some of those skin supplements and nutrients I was taking was actually improving my sleep. Ah,
Speaker 2
I love that.

184: Rachel Varga BScN, RN, CANS, The School of Radiance: Beauty Sleep Unlocked: Secrets to Radiance, Rejuvenation, and Rest

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