Sleep in the Media || Shawn Stevenson: Hack Your Sleep (Podcast #286)

Here's something you can listen to on your next road trip or commute to work. This podcast about sleep health is conversational, interesting and informative.

"Shawn Stevenson || Hack Your Sleep " (51 minutes)
from The Art of Charm: Where Ordinary Guys become Extraordinary Men

Shawn Stevenson turned around a diagnosis of degenerative disc disease at the unusually young age of 20 by focusing on his sleep. Six weeks of quality sleep allowed him to lose 30 pounds and virtually eliminate his back pain. Now an activist for sleep health, he describes sleep as "a force multiplier" that not only improves energy levels, but improves productivity, enhances the function of the immune and endocrine systems, bolsters memory function and slows aging. Direct download here

Be a Sleep Activist! Support H.R.5294 - Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2014

From my sleep health cohort Edward Grandi, this post in Facebook:

"For those working in the sleep field... ask your member of Congress if they support H.R.5294, the Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2014. There are important provisions to further sleep research."

Thank you, Ed. In essence, HR 5294 exists "to improve the health of minority individuals, and for other purposes..." which specifically includes The Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Disorders Health Disparities Act as illustrated in the bill's text under Subtitle I, sections 791-793, supporting research activities at the NIH and the CDC.

Folks, important advancements in sleep health have always needed the support of the government in order to get the funding necessary to research such important topics as sleep deprivation, SIDS, drowsy driving and other sleep health challenges. Please help to inspire our politicians to make this as important a discussion at the federal level as cancer, AIDS and other health crises in this country.