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Episode 15: The essentials of a healthy brain with Dr. Shane Creado
But Really, How Are You?
English - September 20, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 44.8 MBMental Health Health & Fitness Kids & Family mental health wellness psychology positivity mindset Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
To achieve emotional and mental well-being, our brain needs to be healthy. Dr. Shane Creado is a board certified psychiatrist and sleep medicine doctor. This episode is all about how to get a healthy brain.
Brain health includes multiple factors, including sleep, nutrition, toxins, exercise, and your environment. Dr. Creado talks us through these factors and takes a deep dive on the importance of sleep! This episode is full of practical tips to help you improve your brain health. A healthy brain is the foundation for healthy mental and emotional well-being!
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Dr. Shane Creado Bio:
Dr Creado is a physical therapist, brain health specialist, and integrative psychiatrist. He is double board-certified in sleep medicine and psychiatry. He works not only on the treatment of sleep disorders, but also on perfecting and optimizing sleep, thereby boosting sports performance and workplace productivity. He is on the board for the International Society for Sports Psychiatry, and works with the NBA Players Association, PGA tour Europe, USOPC (US Olympic and Paralympic Committee) and Amen Clinics.
In addition to working with individual patients, he consults with sports teams to design team-specific and athlete-specific sleep guidelines and strategies off-season, in-season and pre-season, to boost performance.
He provides ‘Sleep Retreats’ to organizations/ companies, which involve education on sleep and performance, screening for sleep disorders, and specific strategies to improve sleep and performance.
He is the host of the Overcoming Insomnia course, available on Amen University (https://brainmd.com/overcoming-insomnia-course), which teaches the best evidence-based strategies to improve sleep, and has designed a best-selling sleep supplement for BrainMD, called Put Me To Sleep.