200 - Female Specific Sleep Disorders With Dr Ramakrishnan Nagarajan
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Dr. N.Ramakrishnan is a Healthcare Entrepreneur who is American Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine & Sleep Medicine and also has a Master’s degree in Medical Management from University of Southern California. He is currently the Director of Critical Care Services at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai and is a Senior Consultant in Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. He was the first Board Certified Sleep Specialist to practice in India and established Nithra Institute of Sleep Sciences in 2004. He was also invited to meet the then honourable president of India, Dr.A.P.J...
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199 - Sleep, Blue Light & Leptin Resistance With Mugdha Pradhan
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Mugdha Pradhan is the CEO & Founder of iThrive, TedX speaker, Healer & Spiritual Coach. In 2017 despite having a Master's in Nutrition she struggled with her own personal health issues, learning the nuances of Functional Medicine which then transformed her health. She lost 37 kgs and reversing an autoimmune condition. Moving from Canada to India, she introduced Functional Nutrition through iThrive - Healing & Beyond 2019. With her expertise in Functional Nutrition, her ability to build strong teams and beautiful cultures, and her passion for scientific research and evidence-based...
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198 - Understanding Ojas For Sleep With Dr Marianne Teitelbaum
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Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum graduated Summa Cum Laude from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1984. She immediately began her studies with Maharishi Ayurveda, obtaining Ayurvedic Practitioner certification in 1992. In the late 1990’s she began a 17-year one-on-one internship with Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra, an award-winning herbal formulator who hails from a 5,000 -year-old family lineage of Raj Vaidyas, treating the royalty of India. Vaidya Mishra taught her how to treat practically every disease, making over 500 herbal formulas for all the problems they were treating together. Her first...
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197 - CBTi For Sleep With Dr Sarah Silverman
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Dr. Sarah Silverman is a Stanford-trained holistic sleep specialist and wellness consultant. She is an expert in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for insomnia (CBTi), the first-line treatment approach for adults with chronic insomnia. CBTi is an effective way to improve sleep naturally and overcome chronic insomnia without medication. She is the founder and CEO of ZzzHaus health consulting agency, which uses epigenetics testing, circadian science, and evidence-based protocols to maximise performance. When might someone be a good candidate for CBTi? How effective is CBTi? What's the best way...
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196 - Is There A Magical Pill For Sleep With Geeta Sethi
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A lover of food and nature since childhood, you will find Geeta either in the forest walking her dog, researching the latest on the microbiome or creating nourishing meals in her kitchen! Her spiritual journey of seeking answers from life after losing her husband to a heart attack at a young age led her to exploring the wisdom of Ayurveda which was not only a trigger for her to start living more consciously but also changed the trajectory of her whole life. It inspired her to leave behind a successful banking career to go back to school and study holistic nutrition. \She’s appeared multiple...
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195 - Gut, Autoimmunity & Sleep With Divya Dhawan
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Divya Dhawan is a National board certified Functional and Holistic Health coach, mother of 2 smart kids, pet mom and a wife. Her toughest life moments are also are her biggest teachers. When she was diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome and doctors told her that she can only manage her disease with no real cure, she paved her own healing path by going the holistic route. This decision lead her to remission from Sjogren’s and she has been there for almost 10 years now. She now has a deep passion for helping people bounce back up from Autoimmune disorders like Sjogren’s and RA. Why are...
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194 - Male Specific Sleep Disorders With Dr Ramakrishnan Nagarajan
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Dr. N.Ramakrishnan is a Healthcare Entrepreneur who is American Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine & Sleep Medicine and also has a Master’s degree in Medical Management from University of Southern California. He is currently the Director of Critical Care Services at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai and is a Senior Consultant in Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. He was the first Board Certified Sleep Specialist to practice in India and established Nithra Institute of Sleep Sciences in 2004. He was also invited to meet the then honourable president of India, Dr.A.P.J...
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193 - Trauma Informed Care & Ability To Relax With Dr Deepak Ravindran
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Dr Deepak Ravindran has over 20 years of experience in helping people overcome their pain – in the NHS and private practice. He is one of the few consultants in the UK who possesses triple certification in lifestyle medicine, musculoskeletal medicine and pain medicine. He has been a consultant in pain medicine since 2010 in one of the biggest district general medical hospitals, the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. He is currently the clinical lead for the specialist pain services for all of West Berkshire since 2015. In 2020, he helped set up the Berkshire Longcovid Integrated...
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192 - Circadian Clocks, Blue Light & Sleep With Martin Moore-Ede
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Martin Moore-Ede MD PhD is a leading world expert on circadian clocks and light. As a professor at Harvard Medical School, he led the team that located the human circadian clock. and showed how it is synchronised by light. He founded the Circadian Light Research Center which identified the key blue wavelengths that control the clock, and patented & developed the first evidence based healthy circadian lights. His new book THE LIGHT DOCTOR can be found on Substack at What is blue light? And does it impact our sleep and circadian rhythm? How does blue light exaggerate difference...
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191 - Chronic Fatigue & Sleep With Dr Wendie Trubow
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Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA is a functional medicine gynaecologist, practicing functional medicine since 2009. There are so many different challenges in a woman’s life: work, home, relationships, spirituality, health, and they all matter! She co-authored the book "Dirty Girl -- Ditch the Toxins, Look Great and Feel Freaking Amazing!” which became an Amazon Best Seller in 5 categories in the first 24 hours of publication. How can we prevent fatigue tipping to chronic fatigue under difficult situations? What causes chronic fatigue? What can you do to recover from chronic fatigue? For more on Dr...
info_outlineSurya Mantha is a Senior Partner and Venture Capitalist at Unitus Ventures. Surya has over two decades of experience spanning, business operations, investing and management consulting. He has played leadership roles in startups as well as investment firms. At Unitus, Surya is responsible for all investment operations in India across Unitus’ focus sectors including fintech, med-tech, ed-tech, and employability, through the entire lifecycle of the portfolio.
Previously, Surya played leadership roles in several high-growth technology and media businesses including at Web18, Saregama (HMV), Sify and RealNetworks. He also spent several years in investment management roles, including impact investment at Omidyar Network and growth capital investing at Peepul Capital. As a member of the founding team of Omidyar Network India Advisors (ONIA), he led investments in the ecommerce, digital media, education and government transparency sectors. Surya started his career at Xerox Research in Rochester, New York.
This episode is all about “The Startup World, Sleep & Personal Recommendations from a VC”
- Surya’s story and journey to being the VC today.
- It is common in the start up world to wear poor sleep and stress like a badge of honour. The Dalai Lama said that man sacrifices his health to make money and then sacrifices money to restore health. Surya shares some stories about how this is actually true in the startup world.
- 90% of Indians are sleep deprived. This is pretty alarming. According to a report by Fitbit, India is one of the least active nations and are the second most sleep deprived nation globally. What actually happens among startups? How do they struggle with stress, sleep, lack of exercise and then ultimately poor health?
- Is it necessary that they ignore sleep so much? Is it possible for them to work smart, efficient and productively in spite of making sleep a priority?
- It is common for startup owners to wake up in the middle of the night with heightened anxiety. It is hard to disconnect from their business. Each person’s stress response varies. Yet, having a few strong personalised practices like sleep hygiene and stress management practices can go such a long way in supporting them. Does Surya struggle with anxiety? What does anxiety look like and what can you do about it?
- Surya’s personal recommendations to improve sleep and cope with the pressures of having a startup.
For more on Surya Mantha, you can follow him:
Website: https://unitus.vc/team/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/surya.mantha
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