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Dr. Robynne Chutkan, best-selling author of numerous books which help people up-level their health is here to help us understand the importance of taking care of our gut health. We discuss her most recent book, The Anti-Viral Gut, which takes a complex topic and makes it easy to understand while providing great tips you can implement today. You’ll understand how to make simple, foundational changes in how you eat and live that will have a huge impact on your health and quality of life. If you want to learn how your gut health impacts your overall health and your ability to handle viruses, including Covid — you are going to love this conversation!

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*This interview is for entertainment purposes only. For medical advice, seek out your trusted healthcare provider.

WHAT WE DISCUSS:

1. How Dr. Chutkan evolved her practice to empower others around their health and understanding the role of the microbiome.
2. How her daughter received more than 20 courses of antibiotics by the time she was 2 and how Dr. Chutkan slowly learned the importance of our microbiome and began educating others.
3. She explains what our microbiome is.
4. She also explains dysbiosis.
5. How to make simple, foundational changes in how you eat and live that have a huge impact on your health and quality of life.
6. Specific things we can begin doing today to improve our health, and much more.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Website: https://robynnechutkan.com/books/ – register for her free Masterclass

Book: The Anti-Viral Gut

Dr. Chutkan on Instagram

Michele on Instagram

MORE ABOUT DR ROBYNNE CHUTKAN

Dr. Chutkan is a board-certified gastroenterologist and the bestselling author of Gutbliss, The Microbiome Solution, The Bloat Cure, and The Anti-Viral Gut. Educated at Yale and Columbia, she’s a faculty member at Georgetown Hospital and the founder of the Digestive Center for Wellness in Washington DC. A former Governing Board member and Training Committee chair of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), she’s authored dozens of scientific articles and lectured globally on autoimmune diseases and the role of the microbiome in health and disease. Dr Chutkan has her own PBS Special entitled “Gutbliss” and has been a frequent medical expert on the Dr. Oz Show, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and other media outlets. She’s an avid (and slow) runner, squash player and yogi and is passionate about introducing more dirt, sweat and vegetables into her patients’ lives.

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Dr. Valerie Cacho is an integrative sleep medicine specialist (MD), wellness consultant, and writer. Her interests and expertise include: diagnosing and treating medical sleep disorders during perimenopause and menopause, women’s sleep concerns, mind-body approaches to insomnia, self-compassion training, clinical hypnotherapy, and promoting sleep health and wellness. This is a fascinating conversation. The show notes can be found at https://thegoodlifecoach.com/244-2/

* This is a podcast interview and not intended to be medical advice. Please consult with your trusted healthcare professional for your health-related questions.

WHAT YOU’LL HEAR:

1. Dr. Val explains what integrative health is and how she uses it help her patients.
2. She walks us through the sleep cycles. Each lasts about 90 minutes and happens 4-6 times per night. She shares her opinion on sleep trackers. Ideal sleep in each stage in midlife.
3. She discusses HRV and what matters for sleep – having a higher score is better. Lower scores can mean more stress. She says don’t let the score impact her actual experience – sleep loss due to a positive event doesn’t have the same concern.
4. Snoring in midlife.
5. What happens during a sleep study and the health implications of sleep apnea.
6. The role of dreams.
7. Her opinion on naps and how long they should be and when to take them in order for them to be effective.
8. What happens to women and sleep in menopause.
9. The holistic ways she helps her patients with sleep.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

• Website: sleeplifemed.com
• Freebie: www.sleephoria.health/f/exhaustion-checklist
• IG: https://www.instagram.com/drvalsleepgal/
• Michele on Instagram

GUEST BIO:

Dr. Valerie Cacho is an integrative sleep medicine specialist (MD), wellness consultant, and writer. Her interests and expertise include: diagnosing and treating medical sleep disorders during perimenopause and menopause, women’s sleep concerns, mind-body approaches to insomnia, self-compassion training, clinical hypnotherapy, and promoting sleep health and wellness. She is the president and founder of Sleep Life Med, a tele-sleep practice in Hawaii and California. Additionally, Dr. Cacho is the CEO of Sleephoria, an online educational and sleep wellness company for women.

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