Speaker 1: Hey, they're Healthy Is listeners. Thanks for joining us on
Speaker 1: this daily podcast and Body and Soul good Healthyish of course,
Speaker 1: I am your host, Felicity Harley. Ah winter canrik havoc
Speaker 1: on sleep. You're either up on the toilet more, you're freezing,
Speaker 1: you're too hot, someone's hogging the douner. Well, today we're
Speaker 1: going to help you improve your sleep quality in winter.
Speaker 1: I'm joined by clinical naturopath Tigan Marshall. She's here to
Speaker 1: share her top tips and also give her verdict on
Speaker 1: TikTok Scandinavian sleep method. Have you heard of that one?
Speaker 1: If you do like what you hear from Tiger listening
Speaker 1: to Extra Healthy Issue, where she shares her simple tips
Speaker 1: to upgrade your health this winter, you can catch that
Speaker 1: one wherever you get your podcasts. Tike, it nice to
Speaker 1: have you on the podcast today. How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm really well, Thank you, thanks for having me, Felicity.
Speaker 1: Oh you're staying warm in this cold weather, but you're
Speaker 1: in of course you're warm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's only getting up to like seventeen degrees today.
Speaker 2: It's like pouring rain. It's horrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing how the cold weather just impacts every
Speaker 1: like everyone talks about it. Of course we're talking about
Speaker 1: on the podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but everyone else like out.
Speaker 1: In aboutle it's freezing, it's freezing, But let's talk about
Speaker 1: sleep when it comes to cold weather. I mean, what
Speaker 1: is quality sleep? How do you define it? And why
Speaker 1: is it so important that kind of sleep for our health?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So quality sleep is super important because it's the
Speaker 2: time when our body and our brain are moving through
Speaker 2: all of their detox and repair mechanisms. So if we're
Speaker 2: not getting quality sleep, we're not repairing our bodies every day,
Speaker 2: which over time can become a big problem.
Speaker 1: How do we know, I mean do we How do
Speaker 1: you know? If you Sometimes I wake up and I
Speaker 1: mean I'm a sleep track of person, but me too,
Speaker 1: How do we know if we've got good sleep? Is
Speaker 1: it just a matter of feeling? Is like, how do
Speaker 1: you qualify this for yourself?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Well, personally, I wear an orring so I can
Speaker 2: track my sleep with my awring and it tells me
Speaker 2: whether I'm getting enough deep sleep, light sleep, room sleep,
Speaker 2: all of that fun stuff. However, if you don't have
Speaker 2: a fitness tracker like an Apple watch on orring or
Speaker 2: any of those things, you really just have to go
Speaker 2: by how you're feeling. Right, So, are you waking up
Speaker 2: multiple times through the night? If you are, are you
Speaker 2: able to go back straight back to sleep or are
Speaker 2: you staying awake for an hour? Are you waking up
Speaker 2: in the morning feeling refreshed? Are you tired during the day.
Speaker 2: These are all going to be signs that are going
Speaker 2: to tell you whether you're getting quality sleep.
Speaker 1: Hey, do you like the or ring?
Speaker 2: I love the aw ring? I am obsessed with it.
Speaker 2: I've been wearing it for a few years now, and
Speaker 2: they just keep adding amazing new features too.
Speaker 1: Not that I need another sleep tracker, but I was
Speaker 1: just intrigued to know anyway back to improving our quality specifically,
Speaker 1: what are some ways we can do this?
Speaker 2: Okay, oh my goodness, I know we don't have much time,
Speaker 2: sor I'm going to talk really because I'm going to
Speaker 2: give you my three biggest tips. Okay, So, breathing. Breathing.
Speaker 2: Breathing breathing is a huge one. Practice functional breathing, which
Speaker 2: I personally like four six breathing for five to ten
Speaker 2: minutes before like going to bed at night. So oh
Speaker 2: ie in bed and just drop in and focus on
Speaker 2: my breath. Calm down my mind and my nervous system
Speaker 2: and prepare me for sleep. So four six breathing is
Speaker 2: breathing in slowly for four seconds, do a little hold
Speaker 2: at the top maybe for two seconds, and then breathing
Speaker 2: out slowly for six seconds, and just repeating that cycle
Speaker 2: for five to ten minutes will really calm our nervous
Speaker 2: system down and get us in a state that's we're
Speaker 2: prepared for sleep. That's my one of my top tips.
Speaker 2: And then you can take supplements that will really support
Speaker 2: your body to have balanced hormones and neurotransmitters, which will
Speaker 2: then help you with your sleep quality. So taking like
Speaker 2: a good quality, be complex vitamin supplement, things like magnesium
Speaker 2: glycinate is really good for sleep. And you can also
Speaker 2: consider touring a bit of a weird one that pee
Speaker 2: people associate with energy drinks, but actually tourin helps to
Speaker 2: down regulate your brain chemicals that keep you awake and
Speaker 2: upregulate your brain chemicals that help you to go to sleep.
Speaker 2: So it's really interesting how they put it in energy
Speaker 2: drinks because it's actually really beneficial to support our sleep.
Speaker 1: And then a hot one, isn't it, Tori? It is?
Speaker 1: I'm hearing it being talked about a few other podcasts,
Speaker 1: and I just feel like we'll hear more about it.
Speaker 2: I think so too, It's going to be one of
Speaker 2: those trending ones. So watch this face anyway. And then
Speaker 2: I love glycine. So glycine helps us with our melatonin production,
Speaker 2: which is our sleepy brain chemical. So melatonin starts to
Speaker 2: rise late in the afternoon and gets us ready for sleep,
Speaker 2: and it increases through the night to help us stay
Speaker 2: asleep and then starts to go down as we wake
Speaker 2: up in the early hours of the morning. It actually
Speaker 2: turns out that I created a supplement company, Glowible, that
Speaker 2: actually has all of these ingredients in them, and it's
Speaker 2: our best selling formulation.
Speaker 1: It's called adapt I mean, for you to create a product,
Speaker 1: you must see a lot of women in particular, and
Speaker 1: men come through with sleep issues. I mean, what are
Speaker 1: you seeing in your job?
Speaker 2: Big time? So I'm no longer practicing as a clinician,
Speaker 2: but to sleep was a huge issue for people when
Speaker 2: I was in clinic, and that was one of the
Speaker 2: reasons why I created this product.
Speaker 1: What about in winter, I mean, it's a lot cooler,
Speaker 1: especially if you down the bottom of Australia and you know,
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of us don't run heaters. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't want to run the heater at night. It's
Speaker 1: so sapping, it's so dry, it makes it yea so dry.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so I get worried about fires and et cetera.
Speaker 1: But it can get really cold in the room. I mean,
Speaker 1: how does this affect our sleep?
Speaker 2: Definitely? So I don't recommend using air conditioning in the room.
Speaker 2: You are right. It dries out the air, and not
Speaker 2: only that, it blasts hot air into the room and
Speaker 2: then the room gets really hot. And if your room
Speaker 2: holds heat, then you're just going to get really un
Speaker 2: c optile and wake up. So it's counterproductive. Right. If
Speaker 2: you're going to use a heater in your room, use
Speaker 2: one of those oil column heaters that you can actually
Speaker 2: set it to turn on and off at different times
Speaker 2: of the night. For like half an hour, it warms
Speaker 2: the room up, takes the chill off the air, and
Speaker 2: then it will switch off. It's perfect for that five
Speaker 2: am temp drop, right when it gets chilly and you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's called I'm waking up. You won't wake up because
Speaker 2: the room's going to get warmed up from that so yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's my tip for heating up your room.
Speaker 1: Now, I have to talk about this trend I came
Speaker 1: across on TikTok. I have to tell you about it.
Speaker 1: It's called the Scandinavian Sleep method, and I think it's
Speaker 1: quite genius and something I've been trying with my partner.
Speaker 1: Have you seen this one?
Speaker 2: I have seen this one and it is actually genius.
Speaker 2: I saw this and I probably should try it as well.
Speaker 2: Partner movement in your sleep can be such a sleep disruptor,
Speaker 2: especially in winter because of the crinkly noise that the
Speaker 2: douna can make, especially if you use like a wall
Speaker 2: or a feather dona they're all crinkly, right, and or
Speaker 2: you wake up because your partner's like yanked the blankets off.
Speaker 2: Two blankets on the bed solves that problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so good. So yeah, listeners, As Tigan said,
Speaker 1: it's you instead of having a doner one doner, if
Speaker 1: you share a bed with a partner and fighting for it,
Speaker 1: you just have two one each. And no, and especially
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but my partner gets so
Speaker 1: hot and he just pushes it off and then it
Speaker 1: pushes off me, and then it just creates disrupted sleep definitely.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then some nights I'm really hot because you know,
Speaker 2: I'm hormonal or whatever, and I want to kick the
Speaker 2: blankets off, and then he's making me hot. So at
Speaker 2: least having your own blankets you can kind of control
Speaker 2: things a bit better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a great tip for getting more sleep in winter. Tigan,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on healthy my pleasure. Well, may
Speaker 1: you sleep a better tonight. Why don't you try the
Speaker 1: Scandinavian sleep method If you have a partner next to you,
Speaker 1: I can match for it. It works and then you
Speaker 1: just get the doner to yourself and you can snuggle
Speaker 1: up and you're all really warm, and yeah, you can
Speaker 1: have a cuddle as well. You just kind of borrow
Speaker 1: under there, Dona. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chat
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