The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast - 014: Kara Collier, Director at Nutrisense, Continuous Glucose Monitors for healthy individuals looking to improve their glucose stability (and improve their sleep & circadian rhythm!)

014: Kara Collier, Director at Nutrisense, Continuous Glucose Monitors for healthy individuals looking to improve their glucose stability (and improve their sleep & circadian rhythm!)

07/27/20 • 52 min

📈How Kara Collier came to be so passionate about glucose and health

📈Information from Kara about glucose and sleep: how are those two things connected, and what can we glean from monitoring this area related to improving sleep?

📈The snowball effect of sleep deprivation and sleep

📈When people say, “I have carbs at night; then I'll just pass out if I'm able to that helps me put to put me to sleep” - What has Kara noticed about that and how that could potentially maybe backfire.

📈Discussion related to wakeups and glucose

📈Kara shares some of the most important things to remember for people looking to improve their sleep and improve their glucose regulation?

📈During the COVID lockdown, Kara has seen major changes in alcohol consumption, and if we can just touch on what alcohol does for glucose, and the types of spikes, and ways to gamify the classes of alcohol we use.

📈What you can expect to gain once you stabilize blood sugar. Nutrisense users log in their database reports of less anxiety and increased emotional regulation.

📈Strategies to blunt glucose spikes, including apple cider vinegar, certain supplements, walking after eating, and more.

📈Interesting hits on glucose like stress, workouts, and heat.

EPISODE LINKS:
Email: [email protected]

Website: To receive a CGM or learn more about NutriSense, please visit our website at: https://bit.ly/2WQfsCv

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kara-collier-rdn-cnsc-52801a99/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nutrisenseio/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kara_Collier1

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nutrisenseio/

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📈How Kara Collier came to be so passionate about glucose and health

📈Information from Kara about glucose and sleep: how are those two things connected, and what can we glean from monitoring this area related to improving sleep?

📈The snowball effect of sleep deprivation and sleep

📈Discussion related to wakeups and glucose

📈Kara shares some of the most important things to remember for people looking to improve their sleep and improve their glucose regulation?

📈What you can expect to gain once you stabilize blood sugar. Nutrisense users log in their database reports of less anxiety and increased emotional regulation.

📈Strategies to blunt glucose spikes, including apple cider vinegar, certain supplements, walking after eating, and more.

📈Interesting hits on glucose like stress, workouts, and heat.

EPISODE LINKS:
Email: [email protected]

Website: To receive a CGM or learn more about NutriSense, please visit our website at: https://bit.ly/2WQfsCv

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kara-collier-rdn-cnsc-52801a99/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nutrisenseio/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kara_Collier1

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nutrisenseio/

To learn more about Sleep Is A Skill:

ACTION STEPS
Fed up with your sleep? Here are 4 ways I can help you transform it starting today:

We have something for everyone, no matter where you’re at with your sleep. Book a quick call to discuss what the next best steps are for you.

Next Steps To Upleveling Your Sleep -
Website: https://www.sleepisaskill.com/

‘Sleep Obsessions’ Monday Newsletter: https://www.sleepisaskill.com/newsletter

8-Week Wearable Group “Optimize Your Sleep” Program: https://www.sleepisaskill.com/optimize

Sleep Is A Skill Podcast: https://www.sleepisaskill.com/podcasts

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mollie-eastman-sleep-is-a-skill-82531825/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mollie.eastman

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013: Dr. Nina Bausek, Ph.D., Chief Scientist of PN Medical, Creators of The Breather, a Respiratory Trainer

In this episode, we discuss:
🌬️Why Dr. Bausek is passionate about this topic (and how she tracks her sleep in her own life)
🌬️How does having an actual contraption to strengthen our respiratory muscles benefit us versus traditional breathwork? What is the benefit of having an apparatus like this?
🌬️Dr. Bausek makes the argument that investing in taking the time to respiratory train could, over time, improve our respiratory rate readings at night (and how she sees results on her Biostrap)
🌬️How TheBreather can serve as an additional tool in the toolbox of personal wellness, next to yoga, meditation, and exercise.
🌬️How sleep apnea plays into this picture
🌬️A more in-depth discussion of ideal respiratory rates and what abnormal numbers can signal
🌬️Feeling faint while practicing and what to do about it
🌬️How the app works in tandem with The Breather

EPISODE LINKS:
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.pnmedical.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-bausek-06b22bb5/
PN Medical provided a hookup for the Sleep Is A Skill community, ‘sleepisaskill’ gets 20% off for the Breather, and ‘breatherfitsleep’ gets for 15% off for the BreatherFit (made for athletes).

To learn more about Sleep Is A Skill:

ACTION STEPS
Fed up with your sleep? Here are 4 ways I can help you transform it starting today:

We have something for everyone, no matter where you’re at with your sleep. Book a quick call to discuss what the next best steps are for you.

Next Steps To Upleveling Your Sleep -
Website: https://www.sleepisaskill.com/

‘Sleep Obsessions’ Monday Newsletter: https://www.sleepisaskill.com/newsletter

8-Week Wearable Group “Optimize Your Sleep” Program: https://www.sleepisaskill.com/optimize

Sleep Is A Skill Podcast: https://www.sleepisaskill.com/podcasts

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YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy-IU372xapHLvXnZRbXU7A

Next Episode

015: Dr. Deborah Rozman Ph.D, President of Heartmath, How daily Heart Rate Coherence / HRV training can change your life & sleep!

In this episode, we discuss:

💙Background on Deborah & Heartmath
💙What is Heartmath? How do their products help with stress & sleep? How do people use the training in daily life and what it is measuring?
💙 What can you anticipate if you begin this training for your wellbeing and sleep?
💙 Understanding heart rhythm coherence and how things like caffeine, certain foods, or sleep deprivation can impact your scores/results
💙 Are there particular goals that we can have around the coherence numbers?
💙 What’s the difference between meditating and Heartmath training?
💙 How can you make sense of stark differences in Heartmath readouts? What does that mean for your mental and physical health?

EPISODE LINKS:
Website: www.HeartMath.com for new research, events, and the latest information.
Instagram: @HeartMath
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/HeartMath
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To learn more about Sleep Is A Skill:

ACTION STEPS
Fed up with your sleep? Here are 4 ways I can help you transform it starting today:

We have something for everyone, no matter where you’re at with your sleep. Book a quick call to discuss what the next best steps are for you.

Next Steps To Upleveling Your Sleep -
Website: https://www.sleepisaskill.com/

‘Sleep Obsessions’ Monday Newsletter: https://www.sleepisaskill.com/newsletter

8-Week Wearable Group “Optimize Your Sleep” Program: https://www.sleepisaskill.com/optimize

Sleep Is A Skill Podcast: https://www.sleepisaskill.com/podcasts

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mollie-eastman-sleep-is-a-skill-82531825/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mollie.eastman

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sleepisaskill
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sleepisaskill/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SleepIsASkill