PODCAST: “Stress, Sleep And Total Recovery With Dr. Gary Kaplan”

Dr. Gary Kaplan, Director of the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine and author of Total Recovery, A Revolutionary New Approach to Breaking the Cycle of Pain and Depression joined Cate Stillman, founder of the YogaHealer Podcast to chat about the various impacts of stress and sleep deprivation on the brain and overall health. Topics he covered included:

• What is Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
• What causes brain inflammation and how it impacts our quality of life
• Why sleep is so crucial for long-term health and tips on how to optimize your sleep
• How Yoga treats pain
• Why meditation is so effective for sleep and pain disorders
• Why sleep apnea is so dangerous for your overall health
• What really causes Lyme disease
• What is EDS and how does it impact the body on a deeper level

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Timestamps:

• 4:00 – 9:00 Stress and inflammation in the brain
• 9:00 – 17:00 Optimal sleep and sleep disorders
• 17:00 – 24:20 Sleep Apnea
• 25:30 – 29:30 Disease in adolescents and belief systems
• 29:30 – 36:00 Meditation, processing emotions and gratitude
• 36:00 – 40:30 The benefits of habits on overall health
• 40:30 – 46:00 Lyme disease and EDS

More helpful links:

• Have a conversation
• Order Cate Stillman’s new book “Master of You”
• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach
• Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma by Elizabeth A. Stanley PhD
• May Cause Happiness: A Gratitude Journal by David Steindl-Rast