#105 Tara Youngblood – Sleep Cooler with Chilipad

Meet Tara:

Tara Youngblood is a fusion scientist and a visionary leader in the future of sleep driven health combining multiple disciplines, including Alternative Medicine, Physics, and Sleep Diagnostics.

She works with leading international researchers to further studies on cold therapy and its impact on sleep, and she wrote and published the leading white paper connecting more than 70 research papers to the effects of temperature on sleep quality and as an expert in sleep science, she is a highly regarded and sought-after international speaker.

Tara’s research has led to more than a dozen patent filings, and she is the co-founder, along with her husband Todd, of Kryo, Inc., inventers of the ChiliPad™. At Kryo she contributes to the strategic direction and daily operations of the company and she also serves as the Chief Science Officer.

Tara is also a wife and mother, a passionate global traveler, and has spearheaded multiple community philanthropic activities and international relief trips. Tara is continually seeking new opportunities to improve the quality of life by those most affected with sleep disorders. She and her family sleep soundly at their home in Charlotte, NC.

Show Notes:

ABOUT TARA

• My husband and I are in business together
• We’ve co-founded a company called, Chili Technology
• My background is in Physics – energy physics, fusion and other things like that
• When we invented this product, we found that sleep is something that really needs to get studied especially for women
• My passion is really about bringing sleep into everybody and making it understood how it works and how to get better sleep
• We came up with the chili pad just as a market niche because we have other products to market
• But when we came up with the idea, it was more the idea of couples in bed because we all have different temperatures when we sleep
• I have been doing this for 10 years now
• Because it is really an interesting way to look at the thermal load and thermal dynamics of the human body
• As much as research that has started on sleep, in a sleep lab, it is really hard to control people’s temperature
• So, the temperature has not been a very studied subject as part of sleep
• The temperature is really amazing. There’s a lot of great studies for it
• Your body has a circadian rhythm and it is genetically driven
• So, if you are a morning person, you are genetically predisposed to be a morning person, but there’s also influence as one factor
• Your core body temperature drops in the middle of the night by 2 degrees and for females when we have hormonal imbalances or if it’s the time of the month, that can affect how easily it is for that to drop
• Temperature is one of those funky things in our body
• If your body does not drop those 2 degrees, that’s when you wake up in the middle of the night
• If you get good deep sleep because you’re not waking up and you’re not having hot flashes, you actually have less during the day depending on what your metric is
• Once you fall asleep, you really want to be cooler to get that deep sleep
• Deep sleep is the one that is most associated with restfulness, physical healing, and growth hormone so you want to give the respect
• There are multiple sleep stages
• Deep sleep means that your brain waves are slow, your resting heart rate is headed to its lowest, your brain is calm
• Memory-wise in deep sleep is really interesting so you actually do not file your memories during the day and most of your memories is filed into a 2-week period
• What happened during the day is it sits during in a holding pattern in the same hypothalamus and it sits on your desk
• As we age, we drop deep sleep and temperature is the only hack I have come across to have that deep sleep
• The temperature thermostat is between 55 and 110 degrees
• We actually have 2 different products
• The chili pad is a legacy product and it is like your traditional thermostat
• Rem sleep is the third bucket that wants to be warmer as the body comes out
• Warming yourself as you wake up is a great way because it releases cortisol and you’ll get a natural boost in the morning
• If you wake up and remember a dream, it is from that rem sleep
• It is highly emotionally charged and it is going to be that helps us work out a certain situation

WHY SLEEP IS IMPORTANT

• I just wrote a book for this message
• When we don’t sleep well and when we don’t feel like we are successful at something, we do not give it the time that we think we should
• Part of the first part of the message is, if you think you can be successful at something, you’ll give the time you need for us to be successful
• I think there is a lot of mix messages about getting sleep for 8 hours, but the most important part from the research I have done is actually that critical first part of your night to take the time get really good sleep when your body wants it
• To respect that is the best sleep, the most productive and quality sleep
• If you time your sleep right, if you do it when you’re supposed to do it, it actually releases more time because you’re more productive because your brain is on fire
• If you’re a morning person your cognitive time is between 10:00 am to noon based on that circadian rhythm
• You don’t have to give anything up, you don’t have to not do that, you just pick you time – time management
• Sleep is the most anti-aging and anti-chronic pain, autoimmune defense, and cancer defense
• Your mortality rate goes up if you don’t sleep and it is attached to everything where we are so focused
• There is nothing wrong with diet and exercise because they are super important but I feel like they should be three not two things that we really focus our health and energy on
• It should be diet, exercise, and sleep because they form this symbiotic relationship that you can’t be successful at one without the other
• If you are sleep deprived, you’re going to eat extra 450 calories and you’re going to be driven towards the carbs and that is so much harder to beat when you are tired
• My book is about reprogramming your sleep
• It is basically self-evaluating on what you’re doing in your sleep life
• It is not that different in starting a keto diet or paleo or some of those other diets where you look at things on how they are affecting you

ADVICE

• Less light and less blue light for sure
• But the best tip is, you know yourself and I guarantee you that you can find meditation or peacefulness
• The important thing is to find your habits that you like and what works for you because sleep is habit-based
• Find what feels good to fall asleep and what relaxes you because we do not want to bring stress to bed
• Relax as much as you can before you go to bed
• If you physically read a book, your body reacts differently when you do that, but Netflix, on the other hand, is bad for our brain
• The eBook will be coming out on January and you can pre-order it
• You can find it on our website and Amazon
• It is named, Reprogram Your Sleep or just look at Tara Youngblood

WHERE CAN PEOPLE BUY THE CHILI PAD

• Website: chilitechnology.com
• We have amazing testimonials and it is really amazing what temperature can do
• This is a temperature product that goes on your bed
• This is an efficient way to adjust your body’s temperature and manage it all night

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