The Sleep Recipe: Real Rest, Real Recovery, and the Glow Up You Get When You Finally Sleep Well with Dr. Tara Youngblood

What if waking up at 3 a.m. every night has nothing to do with willpower and everything to do with two degrees? This week on the Glow Up, Gyrl Podcast, Kyra sits down with Dr. Tara Youngblood, sleep science educator, inventor, and founder of Geli. Tara holds more than 50 patents, co-founded ChiliSleep, and shared her "sleep recipe" approach in her TEDxCaryWomen talk. She came to this work the hard way. After losing her son Benjamin in 2008, she stopped sleeping almost entirely, and the grief and depression that followed sent her into more than 10,000 hours of research. In this episode: Losing her son, losing her sleep, and what she went looking for Why most sleep research was done on college-age men and left women out entirely The biggest sleep myth women believe about being "just a bad sleeper" Why your body has to drop two degrees to reach deep sleep, and what your mattress is doing about it The sleep switch, and why turning it off in the morning matters as much as turning it on at night Kyra gets candid about perimenopause and dreading bedtime What Tara wants women to ask their doctors about estrogen, progesterone, and testing A 30-second stress reset you can do in a bathroom stall Her honest take on memory foam, alcohol before bed, and the five tips flooding your feed The gratitude practice her son brought home from camp that the family still does every night Inside Geli and the science behind it Whether you are lying awake at 3 a.m., moving through a hormonal season nobody prepared you for, or running a company on four hours of sleep, this conversation will meet you right where you are. Learn more: gelisleep.com Follow Tara: @dr_youngblood Follow Geli: @gelisleep Stay connected to Glow Up, Gyrl: Website: glowupgyrl.com | Email: [email protected] Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn: @glowupgyrl | Facebook: @glowupgyrlatl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices