Kristen Holmes

And just what you're talking about is circadian alignment. So when you look at the consequences of circadian misalignment, it's increases in cancer risk, it's cardiovascular disease, it's diabetes, it's obesity, mood disorders, psychiatric disorders, right? Like there is not a mental health issue that circadian disruption doesn't touch.

100% of mental health issues will have some sort of circadian disruption present.

100% of mental health issues will have some sort of circadian disruption present.

100% of mental health issues will have some sort of circadian disruption present.

No question. And I think sleep is just always the thing that we sacrifice, right? It's the easiest thing to forego. So we didn't have time to finish a project, so we stay up late at night and we go to bed and then we still have to get to work in the morning.

No question. And I think sleep is just always the thing that we sacrifice, right? It's the easiest thing to forego. So we didn't have time to finish a project, so we stay up late at night and we go to bed and then we still have to get to work in the morning.

No question. And I think sleep is just always the thing that we sacrifice, right? It's the easiest thing to forego. So we didn't have time to finish a project, so we stay up late at night and we go to bed and then we still have to get to work in the morning.

Or we just decide that we'd rather, we're going to a destination, we wanna have a whole day when we get there, so we're just gonna take the really, really, really early flight. And so now we're getting up at three in the morning to make a 5.30 flight. And so it's always the thing that I think we push around in our life. And I think it should be the thing that is the stable. Yeah, the constant.

Or we just decide that we'd rather, we're going to a destination, we wanna have a whole day when we get there, so we're just gonna take the really, really, really early flight. And so now we're getting up at three in the morning to make a 5.30 flight. And so it's always the thing that I think we push around in our life. And I think it should be the thing that is the stable. Yeah, the constant.

Or we just decide that we'd rather, we're going to a destination, we wanna have a whole day when we get there, so we're just gonna take the really, really, really early flight. And so now we're getting up at three in the morning to make a 5.30 flight. And so it's always the thing that I think we push around in our life. And I think it should be the thing that is the stable. Yeah, the constant.

I couldn't agree with you more. You know, we had a really interesting conversation here in the unit before the podcast about some of the psychiatric impacts on performance. And you have a PhD in psychology. And I think it's a really interesting... approach to take psychology and apply it to physical performance.

I couldn't agree with you more. You know, we had a really interesting conversation here in the unit before the podcast about some of the psychiatric impacts on performance. And you have a PhD in psychology. And I think it's a really interesting... approach to take psychology and apply it to physical performance.

I couldn't agree with you more. You know, we had a really interesting conversation here in the unit before the podcast about some of the psychiatric impacts on performance. And you have a PhD in psychology. And I think it's a really interesting... approach to take psychology and apply it to physical performance.

Because the way that modern medicine, in my opinion, looks at the human body is that this is completely separate from this, right? Like somehow there's no connection here at the neck. We treat psychiatric disorders not as gut issues. We don't treat gut issues as psychiatric issues.

Because the way that modern medicine, in my opinion, looks at the human body is that this is completely separate from this, right? Like somehow there's no connection here at the neck. We treat psychiatric disorders not as gut issues. We don't treat gut issues as psychiatric issues.

Because the way that modern medicine, in my opinion, looks at the human body is that this is completely separate from this, right? Like somehow there's no connection here at the neck. We treat psychiatric disorders not as gut issues. We don't treat gut issues as psychiatric issues.

And so we had a really interesting discussion about the psychiatric impact of thought and perceived stress on performance. Could you give us a little...

And so we had a really interesting discussion about the psychiatric impact of thought and perceived stress on performance. Could you give us a little...

And so we had a really interesting discussion about the psychiatric impact of thought and perceived stress on performance. Could you give us a little...

Yeah, yeah. So I'm a psychophysiologist. So I started kind of in physiology and expanded into psychology really because of, you know, so a psychophysiologist basically, you know, as a psychologist, I look at, you know, psychological processes and basically the interrelationships between your psychological processes and physiological responses and vice versa.