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Pull Yourself Together: The Best Expert Advice to Make You Feel Incredible

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This is your guide to uplevel your life.

Learn the 3 foundational habits that will transform your life and improve your productivity, wellness, health, and life balance.

Renowned experts are here to give you their straight-from-the-lab advice on how to do each of these things in the optimal way and make them a habit you can stick with for life.

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Movement is medicine. Your body needs to work optimally through repeated challenge. Your brain needs this as well.

Dr. Shane O'Mara, PhD

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Dr. Shane O'Mara, PhD

Dr. Shane O'Mara is a neuroscientist, professor, and author specializing in the science of walking, brain health, and resilience. Dr. O'Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research at the University of Dublin. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from NUI Galway and a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

  • Book: In Praise of Walking

    In this captivating book, neuroscientist Shane O’Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains, and to appreciate the advantages of this uniquely human skill. From walking’s evolutionary origins, traced back millions of years to life forms on the ocean floor, to new findings from cutting-edge research, he reveals how the brain and nervous system give us the ability to balance, weave through a crowded city, and run our “inner GPS” system. Walking is good for our muscles and posture; it helps to protect and repair organs, and can slow or turn back the aging of our brains. With our minds in motion we think more creatively, our mood improves, and stress levels fall. Walking together to achieve a shared purpose is also a social glue that has contributed to our survival as a species.

Patrick McKeown

Patrick McKeown is a renowned breathing expert, author, and educator specializing in the science of optimal oxygenation and respiratory health.

  • Book: The Breathing Cure

    Imagine a breathing technique that can increase oxygen uptake and delivery to the cells, improve blood circulation, and unblock the nose. Perhaps it can help open the airways of the lungs, enhance blood flow and oxygen delivery to the brain, improve sleep and bring calmness to the mind. It might even restore bodily functions disturbed by stress, build greater resilience and help you to live longer. You might think this description sounds farfetched. But it isn’t.

    Tap into your innate resilience. Fire up your potential. Enhance your health.

    BREATHE BETTER NOW!

Dr. Gina Poe, PhD

Dr. Gina Poe is a neuroscientist and professor at UCLA specializing in the science of sleep and its critical role in learning, memory, and mental health.

Dr. Neha Sangwan, MD

Dr. Neha Sangwan is an internal medicine physician, communication expert, and author focused on integrating emotional and physical health.

  • Book: TalkRx

    Do you say yes when you really mean no? Do you avoid conflict at all costs? Are you waiting for someone in your life to change in order to get what you want? If so, you’re not alone. Most people will do anything to avoid the unpleasant sensations that accompany having an honest exchange—even if it’s as simple as declining an invitation. But not speaking directly in the short term results in a much bigger problem long-term: hurt feelings and passive-aggressive patterns that stress us out, keep us up at night, and literally make us sick. You might be thinking, Communication? I know how to communicate. Don’t be fooled. Communication is simple, but it’s not always easy.

    TalkRx will lead you step-by-step to listen to your body’s signals to better manage stress, create new outcomes with even the most challenging personalities in your life, articulate your frustration and disappointment effectively, talk to people instead of about them; make agreements that stick; and more.

  • Podcast: TalkRx with Doctor Neha

    Doctor Neha is an Internal Medicine Physician, Coach, Speaker and Author of TalkRx™M. In this weekly podcast, Neha shares her discoveries to create honest conversations that create connection, health and happiness.

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