Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself #359 Timing Your Meals, Exercise, Thoughts For Sleep with Mollie Eastman of Sleep is a Skill
This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Mollie Eastman. In this episode, Mollie shares her journey into chronobiology, which started with her struggles as a bad sleeper. Through her platform, Sleep Is A Skill, Mollie now helps others optimize their sleep. We discuss strategies for sleep optimization, balancing social habits, and meal timing. We also delve into caffeine timing, exercise, and "thought timing," emphasizing the importance of managing evening stressors and utilizing wearable technology to obtain sleep data.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- What does it take to get great sleep?
- What is chronobiology?
- How does meal timing affect sleep?
- How can we have a consistent wake-up time?
- What is metabolic jet lag?
- If making changes, how long is it before you see results?
- When is the best time to exercise during the day to optimize your sleep?
- How to move the needle on your HRV data
ABOUT GUEST:
Mollie Eastman is the creator of Sleep Is A Skill, and the host of The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast. Sleep Is A Skill is a company that optimizes people’s sleep through a unique blend of technology, accountability, and behavioral change. After navigating insomnia while traveling internationally, she created what she couldn’t find - a place to go to learn the skill set of sleep. With a background in behavioral change from The Nonverbal Group, she became fascinated with chronobiology and its practical application to sleep and our overall experience of life. Knowing the difference between a life with sleep and without, she’s now dedicated her life to sharing the forgotten skill set of sleep. In the spirit of that goal, she has created the #2 sleep podcast, written a popular weekly sleep newsletter for over five years, partnered with luxury hotels & lifestyle brands, coached the world’s top poker players, and has appeared on over 150 podcasts.
WHERE TO FIND:
Website: https://www.sleepisaskill.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mollie.eastman
WHERE TO FIND CHRISTA:
Website: https://www.christabiegler.com/
Instagram: @anti.inflammatory.nutritionist
Podcast Instagram: @lessstressedlife
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lessstressedlife
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NUTRITION PHILOSOPHY:
- Over restriction is dead; if your practitioner is recommending this, they are stuck in 2010 and not evolving
- Whole food is soul food and fed is best
- Sustainable, synergistic nutrition is in (the opposite of whack-a-mole supplementation & supplement graveyards)
- You don’t have to figure it out alone
- Do your best and leave the rest
EPISODE SPONSOR:
A special thanks to Jigsaw Health for sponsoring this episode. Get a discount on any of their products. Use the code lessstressed10
RETREAT
I have a few spots left for the retreat I’m hosting in a couple months for ambitious women in wellness, service providers and business owners in Bozeman MT.
Here’s the results you can expect from coming to the Recharge Retreat in the mountains:
+ You’ll indulge in less overthinking and overwhelm
+ You’ll make decisions faster