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In this episode, we hear from Dr. Lynelle Schneeberg, sleep psychologist and assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Schneeberg works with adults who suffer from sleeping disorders and helps educate and coach guardians of children who struggle with sleep.
Today's conversation is focused on helping babies and children to have better sleep health. Dr. Schneeberg tells us that the most common sleep challenge for children is behavioral insomnia, which may be caused by learned methods of falling asleep—methods that aren't necessarily ideal.
Click play to hear her discuss her new book, Become Your Child's Sleep Coach: The Bedtime Doctor's 5 Step Guide, Ages 3-10, and learn her general tips for raising healthy sleepers.
Louise Charles, Communications Manager at Climeworks (climeworks.com), provides an overview of how Climeworks' technology is helping with CO2 removal from the atmosphere.
Louise is a multilingual, expert communications specialist with vast experience working cross-culturally in communications, project management, as well as translation. Louise discusses the history and founding of Climeworks and how it has grown to a company of seventy employees to date.
Louise discusses their innovative CO2 collectors, and how their system's fans draw in the air and filter it. As climate change is driven by the activities of humans, through the burning of fossil fuels that release dangerous levels of carbon dioxide into the air that are directly causing global warming, Climeworks' technology seeks to help with CO2 removal from the atmosphere. Climate change desperately needs advanced carbon removal technologies and this is where Climeworks is stepping up to meet the challenge, because climate scenarios have demonstrated that negative emissions will be necessary in order to keep global warming below critical levels.
The Communications Manager talks about the many ways that they can utilize the collected CO2 in various other uses for multiple industries. She explains their storage options and the economic options for countries who are utilizing the CO2 collection technology. Continuing, Louise expounds upon the rewards systems that parties can take advantage of when they provide information on their offset emissions. She talks about the costs of CO2 capture, as well their goals for decreasing costs in the future as they streamline and expand.
Wrapping up, the technology expert and Communications Manager talks about their larger projects that capture even greater amounts of CO2, possibly even millions of tons. And she discusses the Climeworks timeline and their goals for CO2 capture as they expand their operations.
Climeworks' expansion of the world's first commercial carbon removal technology will hopefully lead us to a negative emissions future that will be better for the planet and the living organisms, including us, who reside upon it.
Edward Sawicki Jr., MBA, Chief Executive Officer at Think20 Labs, LLC (think20labs.com), discusses his vision for the future of cannabis.
Sawicki's mission is to help expand personalized medicine and ensure safety for consumers in the cannabis market. He is a cannabis advocate and is heavily involved in the education of consumers about the many benefits of cannabis. Sawicki has a rich background in the biotech space assisting with lab design for DNA-sequencing and molecular biology labs.
Sawicki talks about the premise of Think20 Labs and his background. He explains that Think20 Labs is much more than a testing company, that his company wants to encompass everything they know about molecular development and beyond. Think20 Labs is heavily involved in not only compliance testing, but the sequencing of DNA, epigenetic work, and so much more in research, and the design of projects as well. Sawicki explains that Think20 Labs seeks to get to the core of what cannabis can truly do to move medicine forward and help individuals who suffer from a wide variety of maladies. As he explains, full legalization is needed in order to expand the research.
The cannabis research expert talks about the individualized work they do with local growers, and the massive data that they are collecting about plants and soil conditions, etc. As he states, the most important issue right now is ensuring safety for consumers, and compliance. He discusses the dangers of products that come from the black market, and how full legalization with standards will help to improve safety.
Wrapping up, he talks about how research into epigenomic and RNA profiles will help them to figure out where the important correlations lie, in regard to understanding what they need to learn, and how to approach that in an ordered fashion. Sawicki states that by starting with genetic profiles of patients and of plants, their research can begin to find important correlations that will guide further research, ongoing.
Sean Buchanan, co-founder of Visom Technology, Inc. (visomtech.com), talks in detail about the incredible AR + AI software-enabled technology that his company offers.
Visom's mission is to enable surgery without any compromise whatsoever. By bringing together AR + AI software, Visom is innovating how surgeons can see and operate, by overlaying important images directly over patients which places crucial information surgeons need right in their easy view.
Buchanan talks about Visom's mission in detail, discussing Augmented Reality (AR). As he explains, Visom's technology offers a way to simplify surgery and potentially help decrease errors, 75% of which occur during the surgery. Buchanan delivers an overview of how their system works, providing information on the technology. Transitioning imagery to 3D, while challenging, will provide more thorough information than the standard 2D. He explains how pre-surgical planning can be augmented by the Visom system. By utilizing 3D holograms, surgeons can really get a better grasp of what they will be doing in surgery, before the surgery begins.
The technology guru talks about some of the partnerships and business relationships that they have engaged in, to expand and accelerate the use of their amazing technology. Buchanan provides information on how they are taking their technology to institutions that want to use it for training purposes. The technologist speaks in depth about the healthcare industry in general, discussing innovation.
The critical data that is generated and subsequently interpreted by Visom can truly provide surgeons the insight they require and assist them in making better, more informed decisions, allowing surgeons to focus on the patient. The Visom mission is to simplify healthcare through innovative technology that is easy to use, and provide mobile surgical navigation software that can be utilized anywhere.
Buchanan wraps up by talking about the future of Visom and when he expects their tech will be commercialized and opened up to the wide market in the healthcare industry.
After being diagnosed with a serious mental health condition eight years ago, Dan Seidler began to track his mood at the recommendation of his psychiatrist. The idea was that the more he could understand aspects of his experience, such as what triggers his anxiety or depression, the better he could deal with managing it, the better he could work with his mental health providers, and the better he could regulate his own behaviors in a way that could reduce his symptoms.
This mood tracking practice has brought him improved self-awareness, increased happiness, and reduced stress levels. Though continuing to deal with life's struggles is unavoidable, he now has a better sense of control and knows how to implement more effective coping strategies. Seidler wants you to have access to these tools as well. He joins the podcast today to talk about his experience and his app, Misu, an automated mood tracking tool. Listen in to learn more.
Misu is still in closed beta, which you can obtain access to by going to www.misu.app. If you are too excited to wait, email Seidler at dan@misu.app and he will bump you to the front of the line!
Right now, there are thousands of people who need a heart transplant, yet there are not nearly enough organs available to meet that need. Additionally, those who do receive a donor heart run the risk of rejection and must on lifelong immunosuppressants, which consequently makes them more susceptible to infection. As Dr. Jeffrey Morgan, M.D., says, with the methods we have in place today, heart transplant recipients are essentially trading one disease for another.
Dr. Morgan is the Chief Medical Officer at BIOLIFE4D, a biotech company that is developing a bioartificial heart, which would increase availability of hearts for transplantation and eliminate the risk of rejection, as the heart would be generated from the patient's own cells.
Press play to hear more. Be sure to visit the BIOLIFE4D website at https://biolife4d.com.
Adele Anderson, life coach, destiny coach, and neuro-linguistic programmer, talks about her passion for helping others and the transformative work she engages in with all her clients.
Adele provides an overview of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and shares her insights about how it can help to change neuropathways in the mind, to learn and accelerate learning, and actually install the 'excellence' of others. She explains the science behind NLP and cites examples of groups of people who have utilized NLP to improve performance and increase learning. As she explains, our minds take it all in… all the emotions, and external stimuli. Adele talks about the kinds of trauma that she sees in her clients and how she uses the process of NLP to bring healing and resolve.
Adele believes in the power of positive movement, moving your life forward into your destiny so that you can fulfill your dreams and meet your goals. Adele provides a safe, supportive and holistic environment that allows her clients to find a path that works for them.
The coach and NLP expert explain neural pathways and how they function. As she states, NLP provides hundreds of ways we can engage with the mind to rewire neural pathways that are interrupting our ability to be happy, move forward in life, to reduce stress, etc. As she explains, our minds take everything at face value, and through the work individuals can make significant changes, helping the mind to see things through a new lens so to speak.
Adele explains the methods that she uses. She explains how she works with her clients to create physical identifications of traumas in the mind, and then change them through a meditative process that allows for transformations.
Biquan Luo, PhD, Co-Founder and CEO of Lumos (https://lumos.tech/) provides an overview of her company's incredible Lumos Smart Sleep Mask and its companion mobile app that have been precisely designed to provide sleeper-specific solutions for those who suffer from jet lag, generalized chronic fatigue, or anyone who is seeking a better sleep solution.
Luo received an undergraduate degree from Peking University in China and her doctorate in Biology from the University of Southern California, then continued her studies as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. Through her extensive work with genomic datasets to predict how diseases progress, and her natural interest in finding treatment strategies, she was motivated to discover new ways the human body can thrive in its regular routines when powered by scientific research.
Luo talks about her background and the reasons for launching her company. After experiencing much discomfort on her regular trips to and from China, Luo's training as a bioscientist, and her personal experience as a sleep clinic patient motivated her to find the best way to eliminate jet lag once and for all. Luo talks about the research and methods she used to develop the Lumos mask, and she explains how neurons respond to light input.
Luo explains the tech behind her amazing sleep mask. Lumos utilizes technology transmitting imperceptible pulses of light to prepare us for our future days. And as this light is considerably less intense than a natural light source such as the sun, our bodies are able to receive these specialized organic indicators without disrupting sleep in any way. Thus, these environmental cues of light help our bodies adjust to a new time zone incredibly faster than would happen normally (without the use of the technology-enabled mask).
Luo provides information to listeners on how the Lumos mask can be used to help anyone retrain their bodies, and ease into a new sleep schedule. The Lumos mask's technology can help us to literally shift our body clocks via the timed light flashes. Luo talks in-depth about insomnia and the ways to combat it. She explains the various ways that our sleep can be problematic, can be interrupted, and how we can address the problems and find solutions to overcome them.
Wrapping up, Luo provides information on melatonin secretion, and why teenagers are generally more likely to be 'night owls' than their parents. She talks about sleep deprivation and the adjustment of circadian rhythms and how that could reduce depression.
Tukan Das knows that if you are in a B2B technology company, it is nearly impossible to confidently identify which organizations will buy your product. While such a problem can be ameliorated through manual research, the process can be tedious and time-consuming. For this reason, he and his team at LeadSift have found a way to identify signals and collect data from public web spaces in order to help you determine which organizations are worth focusing your sales efforts on. Listen in to learn more.
Das encourages you to visit www.LeadSift.com and request a demonstration oret a free report.
Thomas E. Lovejoy, Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and the "Godfather of Biodiversity," delivers a thoroughly interesting overview of his environmental conservation work and scientific research.
Lovejoy discusses his interest in biodiversity and environmental science. As he explains, he had an early interest in animals, and after taking his first biology course he was hooked. Lovejoy talks about his work in graduate school, and how he was then motivated to travel and understand what was happening globally, which led him to lead conservation efforts and push to make life better on the planet.
Lovejoy discusses in detail his early work with the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) and his experiences in the Amazon in Brazil. He talks about the dangers of breaking a forest into fragments. As he explains, when you break a forest into fragments, and a fragment is no longer part of a larger system, it will no longer be able to support all the species that reside within it. Thus these fragments become simpler ecosystems, having shed some of their species.
The environmental science expert explains the dynamic changes that we are seeing today globally, discussing drought and deforestation. He explains that the most important thing to do to improve the dire situation is to back off from the tipping point by actively pursuing reforestation practices, and building connections between forest fragments. Continuing, Lovejoy explains details of the biology of a forest, discussing treefall gaps, which are obvious holes in a forest with vertical sides. He explains how seeds are distributed and how certain small animal species aid in the process.
Wrapping up, he talks about the "tipping point," the point at which the loss of global biodiversity greatly increases, and he discusses the negative impacts of carbon in the atmosphere that will directly affect climate change.
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