High Performance Health

Angela is with Brittney Oliver board-certified health and life coach, author speaker and founder of an international online health coach training school. They discuss the role gut health plays in anxiety and depression and the importance of gut health for expectant mothers and their babies. It’s about getting your gut biome in alignment and understanding how health is all-encompassing it’s what you do physically, mentally and spiritually. Gut health has a vital role in mental health as it is responsible for producing 90% of your serotonin and 50% of your dopamine find out how to listen to your own body and achieve the right balance in your gut biome.   KEY TAKEAWAYS When the gut environment is not balanced it can trigger a stress response. There are many varying indicators throughout the body that can be indicators of poor gut health including issues with skin and gastrointestinal problems. You can’t be present in your life when you are suffering from depression. Health is all-encompassing it’s your mental, physical and spiritual well-being. For each individual, it’s important that the approach is personalised and education about the role of the gut is vital. There are a range of different types of stress and understanding what these are and how they impact on the gut is the key to knowing how to achieve a balance. The microbiome of the mother influences the health of the gut of the baby. The gut health of the mother will improve dramatically prior to birth to support the best possible gut bacteria for the baby. To enhance your baby’s gut health, understand that your gut is a biome garden and different microbes have different jobs. Once you understand you can do better, you can put hope into what you think is hopeless. It’s about the function of the natural body first and then looking at what you can do to help it.   BEST MOMENTS ‘The gut is responsible for producing 90% of your serotonin and 50% of your dopamine’ ‘The state of the baby gut is directly connected to the mothers gut health’ ‘I want to empower people to heal on their own’ ‘If you understand your gut you will understand your body and its well- being and balance’   VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization  High Performance website  HWCA Coach website Brittney Oliver LinkedIn Unlimited Power - Tony Robbins   ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.   CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

Angela is with Andrew Steele former GB Olympic medal holder, a founding member of DNA fit and head of product to find out about how they use DNA testing to transform results in sport, weight loss and preventative health.  In this deep dive episode, find out all about how DNA testing can help you to optimise your health and wellbeing and why your genes are not your destiny it’s the epigenetics, the expression of your genes, that makes the difference to your health and longevity. Shining a light on the nature part of the nature, nurture equation is the key to understanding and provides information that can be used to successfully improve outcomes for any individual.   KEY TAKEAWAYS When the environment is the same but people’s outcomes are different the question is what is the other factor? DNA testing highlights the nature part of the nature-nurture equation. It provides another piece of information that can be used by individuals to improve their outcomes. You can use genetic data to help you reach your goals, it will help you to get better quicker. For nutrition genetic data helps with sustained changes in behaviours. People have a specific internal motivation as to ‘why’. They know they are made in a particular way and require particular nutrition. There is self-motivation for making one choice over another. There is a complete spectrum of diets that we are familiar with and individuals will have greatly differing experiences with them. There are 2 macronutrient groups that can be looked at; -Response to saturated fats -Response to refined carbohydrates This layer of ‘why’ and understanding how it is different for each person is important in making a difference. It’s a powerful motivation tool when you understand the impact of your genetics. Circle is the world’s most comprehensive DNA test reporting on 500 different genetic traits across 20 categories. Whole enzyme sequencing looks at every single part of the active or protein-coding part of the human genome.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Healthy lifestyle options are key, it’s about influencing our epigenetics’ ‘I’ve aligned my diet with my genetics’ ‘DNA testing is about shining a light on the nature part of the nature-nurture equation’   VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization  High Performance website DNA Fit website   ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.   CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

Angela is with Marek Doyle who specialises in personalised nutrition. He provides answers that are backed by data and talks with Angela about how he assesses test results to determine where an individual is on their journey and what imbalances are the limiting factors for wellbeing. As an individual who himself suffered from metabolic issues over a number of years, Marek has used his own experiences and extensive research to build a comprehensive understanding of human metabolism. He discusses the small indicators and compensations that we make, adjusting to a new ‘norm’ when we should be paying attention and taking action.   KEY TAKEAWAYS When measuring heart rate variability, preliminary research indicates, if the number is 35 or below then you are potentially too sympathetically engaged and may run into problems with your immune system being downgraded along with other metabolic responses in the body. There are multiple ways your sympathetic nervous system will be activated. The limbic system is waiting for sensory input that may be important information that requires an immediate response from the body. Inflammation activates certain parts of the brain and is characterised by its potential to drive excess glutamate signalling. Glutamate is an important neurotransmitter which switches the brain on but excess levels result in too much signalling to the brain. There are a range of common possibilities that need to be considered when helping an individual with their sympathetic activation. The question to be answered for every individual is – ‘what is the rate-limiting factor for them?’ You can’t take supplements or eat your way out of fatigue because it’s a sensation. You need to look at what you can do so that your central nervous system doesn’t produce the sensation. Ultimately it’s important to pay attention to the small indicators from your body and make the right changes.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Our bodies are consistently communicating with us about pain and fatigue’ ‘You can begin by looking at what your own patterns are through journaling’ ‘Getting enough oxygen, having an anti-inflammatory diet and having good sleep hygiene are important’   VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization  High Performance website Marek Doyle website Marek Doyle Instagram   ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.   CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

This episode is a great opportunity to hear more about Angela’s own journey and why she is so passionate about empowering others to optimise their health. Angela has a background as a successful Corporate Lawyer but is now on a journey to find out everything she can about health and how we can all use our DNA and genetics to positively influence and optimise our health. Your health is the foundation of everything you do, listen in and hear about what you can start doing now to build the right foundations and optimise your own health.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Optimised health is the foundation of sustained performance. Depression is a silent disease and many people try to hide it and carry on with their everyday lives. Meditation is a practice that can help in giving you space between the stimulus and the response. Medical science has got us to a point where we are going to live for longer whether we want to or not and people want to live a long life and live it well enjoying the things they’ve enjoyed in early life all the way through. Control of the epigenetics is key and if we understand key parts of our DNA then we can positively influence the expression of those genes. We now need to really understand our genetic data and how we can use it as part of our daily lives. We need to empower people so that they can optimise their own health Sleep is the best performance-enhancing tool we have and not prioritising sleep has a huge impact on our health. Your body is not only affected by what you eat but also by the amount of light you get and your level of hydration. There are many things you can do to improve and optimise your health and well-being that have no cost.   BEST MOMENTS ‘A momentary pause in your thoughts can help you to gain influence over them’ ‘Biohacking is working with your biology to find the best version of yourself’ ‘People want to live younger for longer’   VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization  High Performance website   ABOUT THE GUEST Susan Hay – Biography Sue is the Founder and CEO of Thrive Magazine a Health and Nutrition Magazine and Thrive Media – a digital branding agency for Health, Food and Fitness Brands. After a 20-year career in branding and design, Sue re-trained in Nutrition and re-focused in 2013 to release Thrive Magazine – a global nutrition-based magazine, focused on clearing up confusion in health & nutrition. Thrive now works with brands in food, health and nutrition to help them build a brand and an online audience. Having worked with brands such as River Cottage and Nuffield Health, along with many amazing start-brands. Thrive is due to launch their Thrive Brand Clarity Course in 2020. Sue Hay is also a published author of the series Dial-a-Guru Books with Pen Craft Books and the host of the THRIVE PODCAST – Ethical Entrepreneurs. sue@thrivepublishing.co.uk   Website Channels Magazine website: www.thrive-magazine.co.ukMedia website: www.thrivepublishing.co.uk PODCAST - http://bit.ly/ThriveEEPodcast Social Media Channels Twitter: @thrivefeelaliveFacebook: @thrivefeelalive Instagram: @thrivemagazine LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanhay/ A picture containing foodDescription automatically generated “At Thrive, we have one core mission: To bring you the most relevant, reliable and expert led information on health & nutrition. I believe that healthy people do good things!”. Sue Hay www.thrive-magazine.co.uk   ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.   CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

Angela is with Steve Rush, author of the best-selling book, Leadership Cake and the Host of The Leadership Hacker Podcast. As CEO of Improov Consulting, he's a People and Business Transformation Expert and Leadership Coach, helping organisations and individual leaders globally improve performance, productivity and engagement Angela and Steve discuss the importance of sleep, recovery and understanding that creating governance, clear structure and discipline are fundamental if you want to achieve freedom and maintain high performance. Great leadership is about empowering others and having high levels of self-awareness and Steve shares great information about what you can do to grow your own self-awareness and why the support of others to help you understand how your work is perceived is what makes the difference, listen in and learn more.   KEY TAKEAWAYS We spend more time in non-verbal communication so understanding sensory acuity is key. We are programmed from a very early age but we are able to continually able to pivot and change our thinking. If you want to instil new behaviours it’s about routines and repetition. Visualisation and having an end goal is vital but it all starts with basic foundations of what am I going to do today and how am I going to do it? We all want to be in control and feel important. Learning to give control away of the things you can give away control of is the key to creating freedom If we don’t give ourselves the ability to be organised, disciplined and get things done then we will never be able to do the things we want to do. Creating governance and clear structure and discipline is what allows you to maintain high performance. Recovery is a paradigm shift – you have to take time out to be more productive. Recovery is about doing something that helps you to regenerate and gives you energy. It could be as simple as taking a walk or being thoughtful for a few minutes. Its ultimately about loving what you do and having a passion for what you do. When you have a passion, you will have energy.   BEST MOMENTS ‘If I am working late there is a give back in my diary schedule’ ‘The Charlie Chaplin effect - research has shown that as a species after 15-20 minutes we are looking for a distraction’ ‘To maintain high performance, we have to take timeout’   VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization  High Performance website www.improovconsulting.com www.leadershipcake.com www.leadership-hacker.com The Leadership Hacker Podcast Steve Rush LinkedIn The Leadership Hacker Instagram The Leadership Hacker Facebook Steve Rush Twitter Leadership Hacker Twitter Leadership Cake Twitter   ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.   CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group  

High blood sugar is a factor in many chronic diseases and in this episode, Angela shares the results of tracking her own blood sugar levels. She explains what blood sugar variability means for your body and shares great practical advice that can be used immediately to manage blood sugar levels. Stress is present in all our lives and Angela explains how cortisol impacts the body and the actions you can take, to control your levels of cortisol, manage your blood sugar variability and optimise your life and longevity.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Keeping cortisol low is important for blood composition. Stress leads to the elevation of cortisol and cortisol raises blood sugar. Exercising in the morning means you are making the best of the ketones that are available and potentially increase fat burning. To keep your body in a fat-burning mode you need to avoid eating a diet high in carbohydrates and refined sugar. When blood sugar rises and insulin is released it triggers the body to store fat instead of burning it. Exercise has been shown to help move sugar into the muscles for storage and causes an immediate increase in insulin sensitivity Research has shown that both aerobic and resistance training increase insulin sensitivity but a combination of both is the most effective and high-intensity interval training is the most time-efficient way to achieve this. The immune system does not perform as well when you are under stress its ability to fight infection is reduced. There are actions you can take to lower your stress levels,  social connection and getting outside along with mediation and breath work will all make a difference. Your breath is your superpower, it’s the easiest way into your parasympathetic nervous system and using breathwork can bring a sense of calm and lower cortisol levels.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Chronically stressed people can be skinny fat because high-stress levels cause fat to be stored in the abdominal area’ ‘It is more beneficial to focus on low carbohydrate and polyphenol-rich fruits such as berries and avocados’ ‘Resistance training has been shown to increase insulin sensitivity’   VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization  High Performance website Christian Thomson website    Superhuman Experiment Facebook   ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.   CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

Angela is with Christian Thomson, Health and Wellness Consultant and a World Kickboxing champion who throughout his career as an athlete suffered from the symptoms of an unexplained chronic condition. He ultimately healed himself and now works to help others optimise their health. They discuss the increasing number of problems that as a species we are choosing to live with ‘ because it’s not really that bad’ when we should be taking notice of these symptoms and taking action to make changes. It begins by understanding where your health is now and Christian and Angela discuss the ways in which you can test and understand markers so that you can make the right changes for you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS DNA and microbiome testing can lay an important part in understanding how your body works and achieving optimal health Symptoms are subjective but are good indicators and a good starting place when assessing health. Many people have a range of symptoms but put them down to stress and busy lifestyles. It’s important not to ignore any symptoms. Your immunity can be comprised in many ways so a good starting point is to identify how well your immune system is working. The impact our food environment has on our immune system is significant. Feelings of energy and health are very subjective but as a species, we are now so used to living with problems that we continue on but any symptoms are an early warning sign that there are problems. Metabolic inflexibility comes down to a dysregulation in the ability to balance the foods we eat. To start you need to understand where your health is and where your priorities lie and reduce the stress in your life. Metabolic analysis – can see how your energy changes when you are exercising and at rest. This can show your exercise tolerance.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Fasting is a great tool to maintain health except when you do not have the capacity to balance our internal stress levels’ ‘Everything happens for a reason in bio-chemistry’ ‘Taking known supplements in large doses can have an impact on the balance of the immune system’   VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization  High Performance website Christian Thomson website    Superhuman Experiment Facebook   ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.   CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

Tatiana Kassessinoff is the host of the ‘London Heal Podcast’,  Clinical Hypnotherapist, Advanced RTT Practitioner and Transformational therapist and in this episode, she is discussing with Angela the fear and anxiety that many are experiencing in these very unsettled times and how meditation and affirmations along with trust in our human nature can change things for anyone. They discuss the science behind the emotions and how we all initially create limiting beliefs and how if you want to you can change your life. Because it is not what happens to you it’s the meaning you attach to what happens and this is dependent on your state of mind. Tatiana shares great insights into the importance of self-love and how you can positively change how you interact with the world, listen in and hear more.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Fear and anxiety - It’s important to understand what fear and anxiety are and that it’s fine to experience these feelings. Fear is a survival program that is with us from early childhood. There are many techniques that you can practice to lower your levels of stress along with trust in your human nature, as we are highly adaptable creatures. Breathing is a great way into the parasympathetic system. Engage in any rhythmic breathing technique where the inhale breathe is shorter than the exhale as this will lower anxiety. Limiting beliefs - Early beliefs are formed as a result of your experience and in adaptation to your environment. A lot of what you think is you isn’t it’s a result of your programming, but it can be changed. Any belief is a habit of thinking and you need to get to your unconscious mind if you want to make a change. Meditation - When you are relaxed you are open to the possibilities and your perception is raised. Manifestation is putting yourself in the position where it could happen and being in a receptive state along with being in an intuitive place. It’s not what happens to you it’s the meaning you attach to what happens and this is dependent on your state of mind. You can only attach good meanings to the events in your life when you are in a relaxed and rested state. Self-love and self-care -  You know more about exactly what you are doing than anyone else. We need to reinforce self-love and self-care and know that being as you are is good enough.   BEST MOMENTS ‘We are not practising social distancing we are practising physical distancing’ ‘It’s important for children to understand they have possibilities’ ‘I love meditation,  it’s my go-to for everything’    VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization  High Performance website Joe Dispenza - Morning and Evening Meditation Tatiana Kassessinoff LinkedIn London Heal website London Heal Podcast I am Enough book by Marisa Peer    ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.   CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

Angela is in conversation with Dr. Tamsin Lewis, medical doctor, former GB elite triathlete and founder of Wellgevity. They discuss how we can all be advocates for our own health and work with medical professionals to co-create positive ‘healthspan’ and a more intuitive sense of self. Being heard and having someone to co-create your ‘healthspan’ is all about asking ‘How do we affect the physiology to affect the psychology? because our perceived view of self, our purpose and connectedness to others is key. Listen in and hear about not only your ‘healthspan’ but the experience that Dr. Lewis has had with COVID19 and what you can do to be better prepared for a virus that can affect anyone and be different for everyone.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Developing psychological well-being and an intuitive sense of self is key in ‘healthspan’. It is not a generic ‘one size fits all’ and data analysis is a vital part of understanding what is affecting you and what makes a difference. How do we affect the physiology to affect the psychology? The filter on your world is dependent on your biochemistry and the dynamic interplay with others on a day to day basis. From an ancestral perspective, humans evolved with periods of stress followed by periods of downtime; in the world today we want to achieve optimum work all of the time. As humans, we go through periods of flux and we need to be more attune to this. Women have fluctuating hormone variations on a monthly basis whilst the majority of men have relatively consistent levels of testosterone. So men have far more stability. Our hormones and the variances play a huge part in how we feel and function.   Coronavirus The effects of this virus are unpredictable it has widespread effects that are different for different people. The widespread post-viral syndrome is extraordinary and we don’t know how long it last No one is immune from getting this so following the advice issued, wearing a saturation monitor, having adequate supplies of paracetamol and taking good doses of fish oil are actions everyone can implement. It’s an illness that is very unknown and affects people in different ways and with so many variables it’s important to not to mega dose on any single supplement. The virus sits around and can reactivate affecting your immune system and triggering inflammation and blood glucose level fluctuation that can take an extended time to recover from.   BEST MOMENTS ‘You can help yourself by wearing an oxygen saturation monitor and if it drops below 96, call someone’ ‘We are all reaching out for some security and the issue is that there isn’t any available’ ‘If you are going out you should be wearing a mask and wearing gloves because we know the most likely way this virus is shedding is through droplets’   VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization  High Performance website   ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.   CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group

 There are 3 pillars of health; movement, nutrition and sleep. In this episode, Angela is in conversation with Dr Jay Khorsandi Sleep Expert, Bio Hacker and host of ‘The Best Night Ever! Podcast. They look at the differences between sleep apnoea and snoring and how they can be treated and discuss the bio hacks that Dr Jay Khorsandi uses to optimise his own sleep. There are many elements that play a part in good sleep health including nutrition movement and lifestyle. Angela and Dr Jay discuss the research and what makes a difference including grounding, supplements and infrared light, as someone who has completely optimised his own sleep Dr Jay is someone who knows what works and why and this is a great opportunity to hear him share his knowledge, listen in and enjoy.   KEY TAKEAWAYS There is a big difference between sleep apnoea and snoring. Snoring is a result of the body and its muscles relaxing whilst sleep apnoea is when you repeatedly stop and start breathing during your sleep. Ideal sleep architecture is Initial deep sleep in 90-minute cycles moving towards REM sleep later in the pattern. How well you sleep at night starts with the routine of the morning before. When you wake you should get outside and look at the blue of the sky. During a sunrise, there is a high amount of infrared and you will benefit from the full spectrum if you are able to watch this. When we are sleeping the body is resting, rejuvenating and you need to give it the resources to do this. You need to have the right amount of sleep and the right quality. The 2 things that regulate our sleep the most are temperature and light. Earthing - As we go about the day we build up a positive charge in static electricity and we need to get rid of this because a build-up over time can cause inflammation and disease. The digital world means more EMF so it’s important to find ways to mitigate the effects and 20 minutes grounding each day with as much skin exposure is a good way to achieve this. There are 3 pillars of health movement, nutrition and sleep and if you can get these 3 in sync the chances of developing any chronic disease is decreased.   BEST MOMENTS ‘We have a set of rules in our DNA but we can change them through our actions and behaviours’ ‘The more you can connect to the earth the more you can get grounded’ ‘If you are using red light therapy you need to achieve a balance that optimises your sleep’   VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization  High Performance website Sleep biohacker Instagram Best Night Ever! podcast    ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.   CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group