Getting quality sleep is one of the most important things we can do for our overall health and well-being. We know that things like getting outside first thing in the morning, going to sleep and waking at the same time each day, and putting away our devices one or two hours before bed can help ensure quality sleep. But did you know that the health of your gut microbiome also plays an important role in sleep quality?
In this minisode, Dr. Hyman speaks with Shawn Stevenson about how the microbiome can affect sleep, and he also speaks with Dr. Elizabeth Boham about the Functional Medicine approach to optimizing gut health.
Shawn Stevenson is the author of the international bestselling book Sleep Smarter and creator of The Model Health Show – featured as the #1 Health podcast on iTunes with millions of listener downloads each year. A graduate of The University of Missouri – St. Louis, Shawn studied business, biology, and kinesiology, and went on to be the founder of Advanced Integrative Health Alliance, a company that provides wellness services for individuals and organizations worldwide. Shawn has been featured in Entrepreneur magazine, Fast Company, Forbes, Men's Health magazine, The Dr. Oz Show, ESPN, CNN, and many other major media outlets. To learn more about Shawn visit TheModelHealthShow.com.
Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices functional medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Dr. Boham has contributed to many articles and wrote the latest chapter on Obesity for the Rankel Textbook of Family Medicine. She is part of the faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine and has been featured on the Dr. Oz show and in a variety of publications and media including Huffington Post, The Chalkboard Magazine, and Experience Life. Her DVD Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer explores the functional medicine approach to keeping your breasts and whole body well.
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Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Shawn Stevenson, “Hack Your Sleep” here:
Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Boham, “What Is Leaky Gut And How Can You Treat It? ” here:
Thank you for these videos. I have been asking these questions for over 25 years no one would listen or if they did, give me the answer I need. Alopathic drugs have all given me more issues than they fix. I am fighting up hill to get well, and get my family well. Nearly every issues referenced in this video has affected me directly, as well as family members
Hyman you’re great but stop cutting off your guests when they speak
Alcohol causes many illnesses such as pancreatitis, cirrhosis etc and people’s deaths and suicides. Alcohol makes you weak, people die in their 20s, 30s and 40s from it. Look it up!! Stop drinking alcohol and maybe even caffeine as these are the only toxic drugs you are taking! Doctors/Pharmaceuticals will never tell you this, as these drugs provide them with jobs and a massive industry as people become sick. Celebrities barely drink to avoid serious illnesses.
You left out sugar, which is truly toxic and the cause of metabolic dysfunction. I guess you could say that alcohol is sugar, but sugar comes in so many forms, mostly addictive.
You left out green tea as well.
I’ve been supplementing with CBD and melatonin every night, think I will alternate when I take it from now on. So interesting! I am watching this eating a bar of chocolate too, probably doesn’t help…
Thanks, Mark. I’ve been following you since the first PBS pledge drives. You have changed my life in so many ways.
Annoying to watch bc the host is always interrupting his guest.
Noiceee
For more than 20 years I had problems with my gut I told my doctors if I have gut problems I can not think very well everything get fogy they told me I was crazy it was in my mind but now what I was telling them it became true thanks for the information