What Are Adaptogens and How Can They Help? When it comes to health, things like eating healthy and working out tend to steal the spotlight. While your diet and exercise habits are certainly important when it comes to your well-being, there are a few other often-overlooked pillars of health. These heavy-hitters include your sleep, your…
Importance of Healthy Sleep and Reduction of Chronic Stress Most of us are well aware of the importance of diet and exercise for good health. For years, it has been drilled into us that to feel our best, we should eat the right kinds of foods (and less of the bad ones) and get regular…
Sleep is required to maintain your immune system, regulate appetite and metabolism, and support cardiovascular health. Also, with Dr. Schaffner’s patients, it can be a “Catch-22” because sleep is needed to heal, but they can’t sleep because of their chronic illness. Fortunately, there have been recent advancements to support restorative deep sleep…
We are joined by our favorite microbiologist, Kiran Krishnan, to discuss some exciting new discoveries and research pertaining to the powerful gut-brain connection. Kiran shares how a dysfunctional gut becomes toxic to your brain, driving mood, focus, sleep, and memory problems!
Learn the intimate connection between the gut and brain (and how it’s actually the “first” brain – and not the second), the 2 biggest drivers of brain toxicity that come from gut dysbiosis, and how a perpetual cycle of gut-brain inflammation drives mood and sleep disorders! Want to know how to end this cycle and stop the escalating toxicity on the brain? Tune into this webinar replay!
It’s getting close to that time of year when we get the announcement from my kid’s school about standardized testing. We are told that the children should get a good night’s sleep and eat a healthy breakfast on the days of the test. Really, just those couple days a year are important? I know they…
We all deal with stress. It’s common to hear or read advice about how to “eliminate” it. Right. Good luck. Look, we can’t necessarily eliminate the actual source of stress, but we can alter how to respond and balance the things that are stressful. Here are three actions you can take today that may help.