Shawn Stevenson

  • Author
  • Speaker
  • Nutritionist

Credentials

  • Bachelor of Science in biology
  • Professional certification in nutrition

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Biology – University of Missouri–St. Louis

Affiliations

  • The Model Health Show

Research Focus

  • Nutrition
  • Holistic health
  • Sleep science

Notable Publications

  • Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to A Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success (2016)
  • Eat Smarter: Use the Power of Food to Reboot Your Metabolism, Upgrade Your Brain, and Transform Your Life (2020)

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Key Contributions

  • Shawn Stevenson has popularized the science of sleep and its connection to health and wellness.
  • He has revolutionized the field of nutrition and health science through his holistic approach.

Contact

https://themodelhealthshow.com/contact/

Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 0:16 0
“circadian medicine is really top tier science right now we're synced up with the 24-hour solar day all of our hormone production our neurotransmitters we're synced up with what the universe is doing”

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“in the United States estimated about 115 million Americans are regularly sleep deprived out of 330”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
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“people who were sleep deprived gained over twice as much belly fat in that 5-year period and sleep deprived in this particular study was less than 6 hours a night”

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“they sleep deprived them for just one week and they basically got 5 hours of sleep for one week that one week period their testosterone dropped 15%”

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“One bite of food can change what proteins are getting printed out to the variety of about 3,000 different options of what type of proteins are getting printed so basically copies of you that are getting printed out 3,000 options with one gene.”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
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“The performance enhancer that you're looking for is not in a supplement store but it's at your bedtime and your wake time.”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 10:57 0
“A good night of sleep starts the moment that you wake up in the morning.”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 11:41 0
“some researchers at Cornell took a test subject and put them in a completely dark room all right they wanted to track their actual Sleep Quality so they were looking at their their brain waves they were looking at what their brain was doing and they put a light the size of a quarter behind their knee and that was enough to throw them out of their sleep cycles so it was disrupting their Sleep Quality just by that light exposure behind the knee”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 15:42 0
“one of the best ways and the first way that I noticeably improved My Sleep Quality and it was one of those launching pads to writing the book in the first place is when I got some blackout curtains for my room all right total darkness never really slept in total darkness before except when I was at like if I go to travel to speak at an event and they had like a really nice hotel room and the blackout curtains just like man this this and I would attribute it to the place like this place is great but it's the Sleep Quality that happened in that environment”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 16:59 0
“you know again we kind of stick to a routine but on the weekend everything is like whatever and then we have that lag on Monday you know you got a case of the Mondays it's not the fact that we're going back to work it's that man my my whole [__] is thrown off and I'm sleep deprived”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 20:17 0
“approximately 60% of the average American adults diet is now made of ultra-processed Foods”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 22:01 0
“if you're deficient in the key nutrients that build your sleep related hormones and neurotransmitters you are still going to have disrupted Sleep Quality”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 22:48 0
“they uncovered that folks with a vitamin C deficiency were more prone to disrupted sleep they didn't have problems falling asleep but they had problems staying asleep”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 22:59 0
“we tend to do is like I want to make sure that I'm getting my vitamin C in and we get a vitamin C supplement”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 24:39 0
“over 90% of the vitamin C products sold in the United States are made from genetically modified corn starch and corn syrup”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 25:55 0
“when the test subjects took the real whole food based vitamin C they had a significant reduction in inflammatory biomarkers”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 28:43 0
“social bonds led to a 50% reduction in all cause mortality so that means a 50% reduction in Death from everything you know prematurely and so there's something special about human interaction and relationships”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 28:58 0
“our relationships more than anything influence what we eat”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 29:03 0
“it influences our sleep habits”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 29:05 0
“it influences our exercise habits”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 29:08 0
“how we relate to ourselves where we think about ourselves how we feel our emotional stability”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 30:15 0
“there's this really remarkable switching over from the sympathetic fight ORF flight to the parasympathetic nervous system that's what the data is indicating which is so exciting”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 35:14 0
“Dr K healthy gamer who is a psychiatrist classically trained in Western medicine but also did four or five years in eastern medicine too who's got this really lovely holistic View and he has a fantastic Community for young guys and girls that are into gaming some of them have got screen addictions some of them don't but it's it's mental health for you know young people that use the internet a lot and him and Hamza another kid from the UK started doing Zoom calls daily Zoom calls so that people could just eat food with other people.”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 36:34 0
“if you have to try and have a conversation in between bites of food that it's going to slow down the pace at which you eat which is going to reduce satiety it's going to ensure that you chew your food properly which is going to make it easier to digest it's going to give you more breath between it which is going to mean that your digestions got more time to you know all of these different things it's a full stack of improvement uh around what you do.”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 37:42 0
“I remember and it's something that I follow just CU it's easy to remember a 321 rule for Sleep 3 hours before sleeping no more food 2 hours before eating try limit fluids and then 1 hour before uh 2 hours before sleeping try and limit fluids 1 hour before sleeping try and limit light.”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 39:55 0
“cherries are one of the most dense sources of naturally occurring melatonin of any food.”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 40:07 0
“one of the studies looked at the anthocyanins in these cherries and found that it they can have the potential to shrink fat cells.”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 40:56 0
“Salmon is really something special when it comes to improving and supporting Sleep Quality.”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 41:09 0
“a deficiency in Omega-3s is clinically shown to disrupt our sleep cycles.”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 41:43 0
“people who ate less than four grams of DHA and EPA had the highest rate of brain shrinkage.”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 45:00 0
“is an e-reader going to disrupt my Circadian Rhythm can I use my Kindle what if it's on warm like what can people do to actually enjoy the last two hours of their day if they also need to be conscious of the light pollution”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 45:42 0
“so if we can create an evening routine for the majority of the time that works for us where we still can do some of our favorite things because that's what life is all about as well we've got to get that juice well yeah what's the point in optimizing your sleep if you sacrifice the enjoyment of your spare time in order to get it like what's the point of getting good sleep presumably so that you enjoy life and if you sacrifice the enjoyment of life to sleep well in the hopes that sleeping well will give you an enjoyment of life like you're shortcutting everything”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 46:23 0
“if we can do little things like again throwing on some blue light black and glasses we do have do you have any brands that you prefer I want to throw Brands out okay well raw Optics Matt Maroa from ra boom I I like raw Optics I know that he's done an awful lot of research they're not cheap but it seems like a lot of the blue blocking glasses that are cheap that don't have a very heavily colored lens if you can still see all of the normal colors with a little bit of a a blue tinge that's not really doing very much according to him you need to be it needs to be like offensively colored and you can get them in yellow or red and I noticed anecdotally if I put them on I know this is the same with and my other friends any highquality blue blocking glasses after about 30 minutes you almost feel this down regulation”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 50:28 0
“maybe you could have sex yeah that hopefully that's better than you know I don't know Yellowstone or whatever else you know people are watching but um you know just with that just being able to invest in your relationship which is again that pays back so much”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 50:55 0
“I sometimes find if I'm listening to something that is too cerebrally compelling and demanding that it puts me into a kind of sort of leanin uh curiosity State on an evening time uh whereas if I get some nice uh fiction or some narrative non-fiction uh I like um you know stories of History documentaries about stuff like World War II and bits and pieces like that uh that to me kind of puts me into more of a what feels like a narrative story mode that feels like it primes me more for sleep”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 56:33 0
“whatever works for you give yourself some space and some Grace to to try some different things now with sleep latency”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 56:47 0
“it's just stress it's excessive stress and us not metabolizing that stress efficiently”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 58:07 0
“our thoughts create chemistry in our bodies instantaneously and a lot of times one of my really good friends Dr Daniel aan he calls them ants automatic negative thoughts and we just get on these Loops of these you know things that can just weigh on our spirit”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 59:42 0
“it's during sleep that so much of our problems are solved and we got some really cool data on this um even Rim sleep in particular in dreaming like dreaming is some freaky stuff man you know and we we we think we've got some good ideas about what's happening but during Rim sleep we know that this process called memory consolidation is taking place”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:02:15 0
“I've got written on my fridge what would you tomorrow want you today to do and the reason that it's so useful is that gives you that perspective just a tiny tiny little bit of distance between what's happening now and what's happening tomorrow and what you would want to do.”

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“I think that most people when they're trying to fall asleep and struggling what's happening is they will ruminate aggressively very few people are struggling to fall asleep while their mind is perfectly peaceful and blank.”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:04:54 0
“You can have the best sleep routine if you're not providing your body with those raw materials those building blocks to help with the conversion of Serotonin into melatonin which serotonin is the prerequisite for making melatonin by the way that all has to do most of your serotonin is in your gut.”

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“What are the sleep Super Foods ooh good question I mentioned cherries earlier yep that's a top tier uh good sleep food salmon another top tier good sleep food and I'm going to share another one with you that you know it's one of these Foods been around for a long time but and also it has number one the mega 3s are there as well eggs great we identify it often times for it's like a morning food it's not the fact of any of these Foods you're just going to eat and fall asleep all right but eggs are remarkable in the the choline choline is involved in the Sleep process as well and those Omega-3s are really helpful and also just amino acids because when we're talking about when I've said hormones and neurotransmitters several times today these are essentially cellular DMS all right it's enabling your cells to talk to each other that's what a hormone is and at its core hormones are proteins if you're deficient in certain amino acids you can't even make that [ __ ] anyways so your body will do a patchwork job but if you provide your body with the…”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:07:55 0
“drinking re just prior of bedtime we could say an hour before bedtime 30 minutes an hour maybe a little bit longer was able to number one improve sleep latency meaning you fall asleep faster it improved overall sleep time and it improved the quality of test subjects sleep namely improving their non- RM deep sleep time”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:09:53 0
“only 12% of American adults are metabolically healthy so 88% of adults are not metabolically healthy and this is looking at certain biomarkers you know whether we're talking about hormones whether we're talking about the role of insulin and leptin and the list goes on and on”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:15:23 0
“if you weren't a heavy set woman you probably would have died because the depth of penetration of the knife would have been closer to vital organs so her story is my fat is my safety.”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:16:25 0
“we evolved our capacity to utilize stored energy in times of famine and something a little fun fact about our fat cells is that our fat cells can actually grow and contain about like a thousand times their own volume.”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:16:55 0
“because we never have a famine we just keep filling and filling and filling these fat cells and what happens is we start to have this unwanted immune response because that the stress of that fat cell getting expanded unnaturally and never getting a chance to offload is essentially sending out a false distress signal to our immune system that this cell is infected essentially.”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:18:08 0
“we see about doubling doubling of the risk of breast cancer doubling of a risk of prostate cancer five times greater risk of colon cancer seven times greater risk of endomet cancer when we develop obesity.”

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“ultimately if you don't put it in your mouth it doesn't go into your body right so finding this balance between empowerment and reminding people of the sovereignty and agency that they have over their health and fitness whilst accepting that the base that people are working from is not the same”

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“the current world that people find themselves in if they want to eat foods that do not cause them to be obese if they want to not eat Beyond satiety they are finding it harder to do now than ever before because of how Ultra processed foods are hyperpalatable, they're more calorie dense, they're quicker and easier to put into your mouth and get into your stomach, they're more readily available, you're able to graze throughout the day”

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“we have this new category huge list of obesogens so these are OB obes obesity causing agents that are firmed in particular they're riddled with obesogens in Ultra processed foods”

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“one of the most ominous sounding obesogens that we're all getting exposed to pretty much every day is bisphenol a”

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“a recent like this study was just published and they the the researchers put food into quote micro wave safe plastic container and microwaved it for 3 minutes and they found that in a 3 cm space of that of that container released literally 50,000 plus microplastics and we're talking millions of nanoplastics into the food and that's just from a 3 centimeter space of it.”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:32:17 0
“babe did you know oh the plastic the paper cups like you were right”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:33:34 0
“I was working with people running an office working as a nutritionist day in and day out”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:36:05 0
“it is normal to be unwell we are living at a time this is the first time in human history where if you are healthy you are not normal”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:39:04 0
“focus on your microculture intentionally create a microculture around you that makes Health easy that makes movement easy that makes good sleep easy”

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“I shared for me the core of that which is community family and friends because it's the biggest leverage point it feeds into itself when you can focus on creating healthy relationships especially in close proximity to you”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:42:04 0
“with your food know thyself if you can't have Cheetos in the crib without having orange fingers definitely don't bring them in”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:44:10 0
“your biology is taking notes that flavor is attached to those nutrients so when I become deficient in those nutrients I'll develop a craving for that flavor.”

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Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:46:05 0
“food isn't just food it's information when you're bringing in more of these real foods in in ways that are ABS delicious should be a no-brainer but in ways that are fun that create incredible like food food memories and experiences.”

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