Given the holiday season is ironically when happiness and well-being are often at their lowest and anxiety at its highest, I thought it might be helpful to share with you five of my favorite podcast episodes with some of the world’s foremost experts who can help you stay healthy, happy, and sane through this holiday season.

During the next 5 weeks, you will learn about the importance of movement, how it affects your creativity (and how to sneak it into your crazy day with minimal time), the practice of intuitive eating so you can still enjoy all the holiday food (but without the guilt), how to use mindfulness to keep calm amidst the holiday chaos, and finally how to maintain your sanity by improving the quality of your sleep.

Without further adieu, here is episode one of my five-part interview series with Dr. John Ratey, a clinical psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, who tells us about the relationship between movement and brain power. This podcast was one of the key resources I used to create my ultimate guide to building a healthy, ergonomic workstation. If you want to download a copy of that guide go to optimizeyourself.me/workstationultimateguide.

The original show notes for this conversation can be found at optimizeyourself.me/episode30.

If you enjoy this top 5 playlist I invite you to visit optimizeyourself.me/podcast to download your very own customized podcast playlist based on your interests and your goals, curated from our library of over 250 conversations.

TOP 5: How Regular Movement Makes You Smarter | with Dr. John Ratey

The Zack Arnold Podcast

TOP 5: How Regular Movement Makes You Smarter | with Dr. John Ratey