Aug 7, 2026 · 36 min · 18 segments
This week Ashley sat down with her husband Brad, a functional medicine nurse practitioner, to discuss possibly one of the most overlooked elements of living a healthy life: the basics. Take a listen…
Bradley FisherGuest
Ashley FisherHost
Shawn BigbyHost
So you're telling me that before I go buy a buttload of gua sha stones and dry brushes and rebounders and vibration plates and red lights that I need to look at my sleep?
And it's, the thing is, there is not one thing that is the magic cure for pretty much anything, you know, right? Surprise.
And so it really is, I like to tell people like, hey, we're looking at puzzle pieces, right? There's going to be some big puzzle pieces, there's going to be some smaller pieces, but you still want to make sure you're not skipping out on any one thing to look at just solely one sort of intervention or therapy.
Now there is a very small percentage of the population that can get away with like six and under, but that's a very, very tiny percent of the population.
So really you want like adequate sleep because when you're, when you go to sleep, your brain doesn't turn off, your body doesn't turn off.
You know, you sort of rest and refresh and it's getting rid of stuff that you don't need and getting ready for the upcoming day.
So there is just so much, even from like a cognitive perspective and emotional perspective, physiologically, there's so many things that your body is repairing when you sleep, especially in those like deep and REM cycle sleeps.
And so that's why, yeah, adequate sleep is enough, but also quality sleep is important.
Anyway, my brain and my body here lately likes to wake me up at two or three in the morning and keep me up until five or five 30.
I think one, this is always good to like talk with your individual practitioner because there's some things you can definitely look at.
So you're telling me that before I go buy a buttload of gua sha stones and dry brushes and rebounders and vibration plates and red lights that I need to look at my sleep?
And it's, the thing is, there is not one thing that is the magic cure for pretty much anything, you know, right? Surprise.
And so it really is, I like to tell people like, hey, we're looking at puzzle pieces, right? There's going to be some big puzzle pieces, there's going to be some smaller pieces, but you still want to make sure you're not skipping out on any one thing to look at just solely one sort of intervention or therapy.
Now there is a very small percentage of the population that can get away with like six and under, but that's a very, very tiny percent of the population.
So really you want like adequate sleep because when you're, when you go to sleep, your brain doesn't turn off, your body doesn't turn off.
You know, you sort of rest and refresh and it's getting rid of stuff that you don't need and getting ready for the upcoming day.
So there is just so much, even from like a cognitive perspective and emotional perspective, physiologically, there's so many things that your body is repairing when you sleep, especially in those like deep and REM cycle sleeps.
And so that's why, yeah, adequate sleep is enough, but also quality sleep is important.
Anyway, my brain and my body here lately likes to wake me up at two or three in the morning and keep me up until five or five 30.
I think one, this is always good to like talk with your individual practitioner because there's some things you can definitely look at.
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