EP10: Keeping Your 3 Brains Healthy with Annemarie Tolman RN MSN

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keeping Your 3 Brains Healthy with Annemarie Tolman RN MSN</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this week's episode, Melissa Batchelor talks about the health of our three brains with her special guest, Annemarie Tolman. The three brains are our actual brain, our heart, and our gut. They are linked and a disruption in one or more brain can leave you feeling tired and with “brain fog”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Annemarie Tolman is a registered nurse and founder of 3 Brain Solutions. As a highly successful Hopkins RN, she's determined to live a healthy and balanced work-life and has found a path of alternative healing methods. That is how 3 Brain Solutions came to be.</span></p> <p><strong>Part One of ‘Brain Health’</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In general, gut-brain health is a very new science. It's been there for a couple of years, but right now, we hear a lot more about how much the gut and specifically how certain neurotransmitters in the gut like serotonin don't work.</span></p> <p><strong><em>“Meditation helps you release the worries of the day.” — Annemarie Tolman</em></strong> <a href= "https://www.annemarietolman.com/"><strong><em>RN MSN</em></strong></a> <strong><em>(05:42-05:45)</em></strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here's a couple of recommendations from Annemarie:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Look at your diet and make it as much as possible based on the Mediterranean diet which includes eating fish, which is high in fiber, and plant-based food. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Look at your sleep patterns, this includes things like your sleep hours and things you do before you go to sleep.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Set time for exercise.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In general, especially for women, alertness is so high all day long, w