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Episode 9: How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep

ByAcademy of Culinary Nutrition Last updated onMay 5, 2025 Reading Time: 3 minutes

A good night’s sleep is elusive to millions of people around the world. Diet, lifestyle, stress, work, finances, family commitments and more can all impair our ability to sleep well – but there are many things we can do to help! Our ninth episode of the Today Is The Day Podcast, “How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep”, is now available on your favourite podcast platforms.

Today is the day we’re going to help resolve one of the biggest barriers to great health – the essential nutrient of deep sleep.

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Covered In This Episode

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • The shocking number of younger people using prescription sleep medication.
  • How raising Meghan and Josh’s son lFinley has personally affected their quality of sleep.
  • The major benefits a good night’s sleep can provide us with.
  • How sleep deprivation affects us in big and little ways.
  • What a Hepatitis B vaccine study tells us about sleep deprivation’s impact on our immune systems.
  • How your morning activity can affect your quality of sleep the next night.
  • What you can do to prepare for a good night’s sleep.
  • How Meghan pushed herself and eliminated unnecessary sugar to maximize the quality of her sleep.
  • Why you should avoid stimulants throughout the day — and yes, that includes coffee.
  • How to give your body time to digest between eating your last big meal of the day and going to bed.
  • Which herbs and hormones can get your system in a better mood to slip into sleep for the night.

Episode Bonus: Bedtime Elixir Recipes

This episode’s bonus is a set of tasty recipes that will relax you and help you drift off to sleep. They include:

  • Sleepytime Elixir
  • Herbal Tea Sleep Formula
  • Chai Spice Almond Milk
  • Super Easy Almond Milk Elixir

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Additional Resources Mentioned In The Episode

  • 4 Ways to Get Better Sleep
  • 11 Foods for Better Sleep
  • What Is the Glycemic Index and Is It A Relevant Measure for Health?
  • Are You Addicted to Sugar?
  • 7 Day No Sugar Challenge
  • Is Alcohol Actually Good for Our Health?
  • 5 Tips to Help You Kick the Caffeine Habit
  • What Is CBD and Should You Be Taking It?
  • Guide to Culinary Adaptogens 
  • 20 Best Healing Herbs for Tea
  • DIY Guide to Dairy-Free Elixirs

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Meghan Telpner

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  • Culinary Nutrition Expert Program preview video and learn more
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Josh Gitalis

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  • Functional Nutrition Certification Program
  • Functional Reset Program
  • Josh on Instagram
  • Josh on Facebook 

More About The Culinary Nutrition Expert Program

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  4. Join the team! Discover how you can become an Academy of Culinary Nutrition Certified Instructor
  5. Rave Reviews: See what our beloved grads have to say about us

Featured Culinary Nutrition Expert

Awesome culinary nutrition experts

Melissa Torio

After graduating from the Culinary Nutrition Expert Program in 2016, Melissa set her sights on the wonderful world of fermentation. Fermenting food at home can be intimidating, but Melissa makes it seem so easy! She teaches fermentation and nutrition workshops, offers one-on-one culinary nutrition coaching and mentorship service, is a program coach with the Culinary Nutrition Expert Program, shares creative and delicious recipes on her blog and sells her own line of beeswax food wraps. If you’d like to get an online fermentation tutorial, check out her amazing guide to brewing kombucha.

Learn More: www.melissatorio.com

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