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Radio From Hell Wellness Check from July 14th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, I know what that music means. It's
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: time to take a nap.
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  Speaker 2: No. No, Well, you should be getting better, more consistent sleep,
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: and Elena Wood from Nightingale College is going to tell
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  Speaker 2: us how to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, I need to know how to get better sleep.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, I'm I'm always tired. You'd think i'd
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  Speaker 1: get good soeper.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is an issue I do A lot
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  Speaker 3: of people have the same trouble where they are consistently
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  Speaker 3: tired but still struggle to sleep at night. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think you're alone.
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  Speaker 1: No what. So the first thing you put here on
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  Speaker 1: your list is stick to a sleep schedule, and I
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  Speaker 1: I kind of like that idea, But I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to go to bed at you know, eight o'clock and
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: get up at three o'clock on a Saturday and a
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  Speaker 1: Sunday the way I do three a week. So can
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  Speaker 1: you break your schedule?
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I think I think your situation is
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  Speaker 3: a little bit unique. Most people, a standard sleep schedule
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  Speaker 3: would have been going to bed, you know, around ten o'clock,
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  Speaker 3: getting up around like seven or eight o'clock, and that's
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  Speaker 3: that's a lot more reasonable over the weekend. So I
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  Speaker 3: think for your case, we can definitely make an exception.
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  Speaker 3: Generally speaking, your body really does love that consistency.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Carrie, you do that, don't you? Oh yeah, even
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend. Not on the weekends. Oh you do?
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  Speaker 3: You do?
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  Speaker 1: Break it? I break it on the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Carrie is very strict about.
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  Speaker 1: What time do you go to bed, go to I
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  Speaker 1: go to sleep. I am in bed asleep at seven,
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  Speaker 1: up at three. I don't know how you do it, so,
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  Speaker 1: but that's he's very It's the.
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  Speaker 2: Consistency the thing helps. Yeah, you're training your body.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. That's why I always feel I shoot
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  Speaker 1: for eight o'clock and then it usually ends up being
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  Speaker 1: nine or nine.
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  Speaker 2: What's your next suggestion?
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  Speaker 3: My next recommendation is to create a wind down ritual,
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  Speaker 3: and this starts happening thirty minutes maybe an hour before
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  Speaker 3: your bedtime, and you do calming activities things that help
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  Speaker 3: you feel more relaxed, such as gentle stretches, maybe reading,
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  Speaker 3: doing meditations, things like that, so your body can start
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  Speaker 3: to understand that it's time to relax and get ready
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  Speaker 3: for sleep.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just say hey, body, it's time to go
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  Speaker 1: to sleep.
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  Speaker 3: That be nice to snap our fingers and then we're out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do have to say my wretched sleep habits.
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  Speaker 1: I usually have absolutely no trouble falling asleep. I usually
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  Speaker 1: fall asleep before I go to bed. Oh dear, Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: what's next.
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  Speaker 3: The next recommendation is to make your room a sleeping showery.
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  Speaker 3: So make sure that your room is dark, light and cool.
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  Speaker 3: Help it be free as clutter. Just lots of different
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  Speaker 3: cues to help your body start to relax. When you
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  Speaker 3: go into your room, you should feel you should feel safe,
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  Speaker 3: you should feel cozy.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like it. I wish I wish my bedroom were locked.
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  Speaker 2: If we're locked, yeah, I just no one can come in.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean when my wife comes to bed, she
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  Speaker 1: could unlock the door and come in, but then lock
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  Speaker 1: it behind.
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  Speaker 2: Sue.
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  Speaker 1: Sue starting to complain that we needed more blackout curtains.
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  Speaker 1: It's not dark enough. We have really good blackout curtains.
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  Speaker 1: I have to say so. But yeah, if you can
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  Speaker 1: have your room as dark as possible, that's the best dark.
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  Speaker 2: And I like it cold, so cold that I can
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  Speaker 2: see my breath. Wow, Like I like. I like lots
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  Speaker 2: of covers, and I liked the room.
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  Speaker 1: Her husband fills up a big for me. Her husband
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  Speaker 1: fills up a big tub of ice cubes and.
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  Speaker 3: In the bed, remember just sleep in that night.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So so the sleep sleep sanctuary and the yes,
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  Speaker 1: what what are why during the day get natural light?
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean? What's so?
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  Speaker 3: Getting natural light? It helps to set our bodies sleep cycles.
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  Speaker 3: And so if you if you don't know, our body
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  Speaker 3: really operates by the cues of the sun and the moon,
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  Speaker 3: and so light is a queue for us to be
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  Speaker 3: awake and darkness is a queue for us to sleep, essentially,
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  Speaker 3: And so that circadian rhythm is something that we can
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  Speaker 3: help impact by getting actual natural light during the day.
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  Speaker 3: And they say that even on cloudy days, if you're
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  Speaker 3: looking out the window or if you're outside, you can
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  Speaker 3: still get that similar impact from the natural light of
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  Speaker 3: the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Are people's circadian rhythms different though? I mean, it seems
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  Speaker 1: to me like if I are, if I were, if
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  Speaker 1: I were not in this job. I remember my natural
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  Speaker 1: evency used to be to want to go to bed
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  Speaker 1: at like midnight or one o'clock in the morning and
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  Speaker 1: then sleep until eleven or noon or you know, or
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  Speaker 1: ten o'clock or something like that. But I like to
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  Speaker 1: stay late and get up late.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's early birds, there's night owls, and there's
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  Speaker 3: a few different things kind of in between there. And
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  Speaker 3: that's that is our body's natural tendency. A lot of times, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: like in your situation, you don't really have the option
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  Speaker 3: to fully embrace that natural rhythm of your body. And
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  Speaker 3: so you you do what you can to adjust to
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  Speaker 3: sit the cycles of your schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Now, next, eat, eat and drink mine. Okay, yes, so what.
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  Speaker 3: We consume we can definitely impact our sleep and wake cycles.
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  Speaker 3: So just be aware of being mindful of caffeine, spicy foods, alcohol,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes things like tomato if you get heartburns. Just be
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  Speaker 3: aware of what impacts your sleep and try to avoid
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  Speaker 3: consuming those things later in the day in particular.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, and finally, this is really good advice. Talk
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  Speaker 1: to your healthcare team. What about how do you what
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  Speaker 1: do you so? What do you do? What do you
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  Speaker 1: what do you ask them? Or?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So, if you are consistently struggling with sleep, talk
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  Speaker 3: to your doctor. Let them know that you're not sleeping. Well,
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  Speaker 3: very likely that they'll recommend you do a sleep study.
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  Speaker 3: There are some at home sleep studies that you can
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  Speaker 3: do where you might be asked to go into a
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  Speaker 3: lab for the sleep study and they'll monitor your sleep
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  Speaker 3: and just diagnose for any issues that be happening, and
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  Speaker 3: then they can provide tools, medications, whatever it might be
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  Speaker 3: that you need to help you get better rest.
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  Speaker 1: I always thought it was odd, though, that you would
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  Speaker 1: go to a I've taken a sleep study at home
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  Speaker 1: where you you know, lot, you put a little and
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  Speaker 1: you on your finger and stuff, and but going to
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  Speaker 1: a lab and getting hooked up with a let and
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  Speaker 1: then so how do you I did that?
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  Speaker 2: But how do you think I would have a.
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  Speaker 1: Hard time falling asleep? I did not sleep well? Yeah
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  Speaker 1: at all? So what so what did the study tell you?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is it accurate?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? They told me I.
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  Speaker 3: Needed a environment, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: It said I needed a c PAP machine and that's
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  Speaker 2: where we are.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what the finger one told me to. All right, well,
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  Speaker 1: those are all good suggestions, Elena. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: find out more what do you do?
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  Speaker 3: You can learn more about this as well as Nightingale's
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  Speaker 3: amazing program by visiting Nightingales dot edu.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Lena, Thank you. Elena Hie I'm
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  Speaker 2: slipping a lot, talking, sleeping,