I don’t know if “Your Best Sleep Ever” online summit has the answers for anyone, but I do know that one thing they say is true: “It’s really hard to heal when you’re not sleeping well”. As we’ll shortly see, sleep – good or bad – affects just about every part of the body. Good sleep is healing sleep; in fact, one sleep specialist calls it the “universal healer”.
It’s not as if good sleep adds some sort of healing bonus, either. Nothing substitutes for good sleep. No drug, no supplement, no dietary protocol, no mindfulness practice can make up for poor sleep. If you don’t have it, then you’re missing something.
As Health Rising begins its own sleep series of blogs, “Your Best Sleep Ever” Online Summit is coming at an opportune time. This isn’t to say that the Summit provides all the secrets for better sleep. It’s the latest of a long series of online health summits which, truth be told, sometimes provide the same lineup of experts.
This summit, though, which lasts from March 16 – 22nd, seems a bit different. I don’t recognize many of the faces, and the presentations seem pretty pragmatic. They’re a reminder that getting better sleep – if it happens – is probably going to take some work.
As with other online health summits of this ilk, the presenters provide alternative or functional health approaches to sleep; i.e. prescription drugs are generally not their cup of tea. (There is an “Issues Linked to Prescription Sleep Medication”, presentation, though).
Instead, you’ll get a kind of “softer” approach which focuses more on sleep hygiene, non-toxic bedrooms, calming practices, supplements and diet to get better sleep.
It’s not all “soft”, though. After surgery to remove an ovarian cyst, the life of the host, Misty Williams, took a wrong turn. Life-threatening complications, an endometriosis diagnosis, and apparently “normal” lab tests offered her a dark future of more drugs and more surgeries.
Suffering from fatigue and sleep issues caused by low hormones, hypothyroidism, stress, Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) reactivation and unexplained weight gain, she turned to alternative health/functional medicine practices and was able to turn her health around using alternative health means (hormones and EBV are part of this summit).
The Talks
Could hormones, sleep hygiene, better mattresses, less toxic homes, diet and supplements help me sleep better?
The Summit includes talks on:
- Daytime strategies to improve your sleep quality
- Creating a bedroom for optimal sleep
- Issues linked to prescription sleep medication
- Sleep benefits of intermittent fasting and a keto diet
- Using food to activate your parasympathetic (rest and digest) nervous system
- Link between gut issues and sleep
- Release nightmares and sleep all night
- Fall asleep faster, sleep longer and wake up fresher
- Support circadian rhythms and pain management with CBD
- Boost progesterone production
- Nuturing deep sleep with meditation and mindfulness
- Protocol for boosting moods and restoring sleep
- Cold therapy for deep sleep and immune function
- What should you look for in a mattress?
- How do you choose a non-toxic bed?
- Choosing an air filter to improve sleep
- Speed up off-gassing of toxic materials.
On a personal note, I’m most interested in the talks around “Protecting Yourself From a Toxic Home” series of talks since, while I can work indoors, I have real trouble sleeping indoors.
Registering for “Your Best Sleep Ever” Online Summit
This Summit works like the one in the past have: registering – which is free – allows you to access each of the talks on the day they are presented.
It also gives you pre-Summit access to 4 talks on:
- 5 Energy Types That Cause Sleep Issues
- How Probiotics May Impact Your Sleep
- GABA and Tryptophan for Anxiety and Insomnia
- Protecting Yourself from a Toxic Home.
Plus, 2 “eGuides” from Misty Williams, the conference creator.
“Create Your Sleep Sanctuary eGuide”, which contains:
- how making changes to your home and daily routine can help you get the restful, restorative sleep you’ve been craving!
“How Are You Wired to Sleep?”, which includes:
- how melatonin induces sleep (and how to supplement if you need it), and why women, in particular, need progesterone to sleep
- how to supplement GABA for stress and anxiety
- the 4 genetic chronotypes that influence when and how long you should sleep.
Register for the Summit here
Buying the Summit
As soon as you register, you’ll be provided an option to buy the talks. You can buy a package that allows you to access the talks online whenever you want ($59), or download them to your computer ($99), or watch them online anytime and get a transcript book ($99).
If you buy the Summit, you’ll also get access to a bunch of ebooks.
Health Rising is an affiliate for this Summit and will receive a portion of all sales.
Thanks for links , Cort.
Might you be doing a synopsis of the conference or a portion of it?
(Likely you have many irons in the fire already.)
Thank you to you and the HR ‘family’ for your progressive and determined coverage of so much information and events.
There is definately a whole series of books or usb’s that would be filled by your endeavors here.
Thanks Sunie,
This would really be extremely helpful Cort. I am not really up for reading or watching long books or conferences.
Please Cort, hep us with that.
Best regards
Thomas
Hi all- a heads up – they offer a discount but there’s a catch, immediately. When I clicked in for the free, basic registration, it says if you “buy now” you get their $99 package for 40% off, i.e., $59.
Nice offer for some of us but I’m not able to buy in immediately. Wish I’d waited to “register” for the free option until I’d be able to buy the upgrade – which I’m somewhat interested in anyway.
Also: a few of us in a local study group take turns paying for resources, etc. such as sleep summits, etc. We generally keep our spending down by trading & taking turns. Meanwhile I hope to learn whether the transcripts & summaries offered (for a fee) in the sleep summit’s package deal are in a download-type format.
Anyone have further details?
I do not believe a bit of it that it is so simple. I wish it was! Have huge huge sleepproblems of wich I nearly died when not sleeping at all. But if even sleepclinicks, whole the good researchers on me/cfs, etc still do not know it and ca help us, how should they??? And again asking for money and not a little bit. I see also for free what other people do on facebook sites. and that you need a good matras, a good enviroment, etc we all know. So what the heck are they trying to sel us now again on severely ill people??? Again in there pockets, the money…As so often when you are desperate!
and tryptophaan, ron davis warned for it if the metabolic trap would be correct, you even would make yourself more ill. and nancy klimas said in general get a sleepstudy done and for severe patiets, because of there severe weaknesss a sleepapneu test so you could get if necessary a machine, etc This is like you have breastcancer, a broken bone, parkinson, or who know what else and just say, oh, I am not letting it treat regulary…
good luck and let me know if a wonder happens with verry very severe sleepissues.
Apparently it is free to watch on the day a talk is given if you register:
“Registering for “Your Best Sleep Ever” Online Summit
This Summit works like the one in the past have: registering – which is free – allows you to access each of the talks on the day they are presented.
It also gives you pre-Summit access to 4 talks on: “
and buying is offered as an option when you register for free to watch each talk on day it is presented:
“As soon as you register, you’ll be provided an option to buy the talks.”
So as long as watch in same day as a particular talk, no fee.
Not sure what time zone talks are given in.
But days for each talk are:
“This summit, though, which lasts from March 16 – 22nd,”
perhaps there is schedule of which talks which days?
it is at least not for the verry severelly ill ones who only can barably watch 5 minites a day…
I’m interested, but I don’t know if the summit is going to touch on what we with ME go thru to sleep. I’ve had severe insomnia since being slammed with ME 11 years ago. I’ve tried everything, gone to 5 sleep doctors, had 5 sleep studies, tried all the sleep supplements and several different sleep drugs and it’s still a nightly struggle. Cort, If they address severe insomnia, could you share what they said with us? Thanks!
How do I get the daily talks … I’ve registered but not getting a link.