web02.fireside.fm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:40:57 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) All Things Vagus - Episodes Tagged with “Loneliness” https://allthingsvagus.fireside.fm/tags/loneliness Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:00:00 -0700 Welcome to All Things Vagus, nourishing Self Care for the Helping Professional. During our time together, we will explore a wide variety of topics relating to self-care, all especially geared to the Helping professional. Our guests are all thought leaders and cutting edge providers in their respective fields of endeavor. They will offer not only helpful insights, but practical skills that you can begin to use immediately. en-us episodic Nourishing Self Care for the Helping Professional Kathleen Mangan Welcome to All Things Vagus, nourishing Self Care for the Helping Professional. During our time together, we will explore a wide variety of topics relating to self-care, all especially geared to the Helping professional. Our guests are all thought leaders and cutting edge providers in their respective fields of endeavor. They will offer not only helpful insights, but practical skills that you can begin to use immediately. no neuropharmacology, pharmacy, university, montana, neuroscience, nervous system, ayurvedic, herbs, pathophysiology Kathleen Mangan kathymangan@redwillowlearning.org Episode 39: While You Were Sleeping https://allthingsvagus.fireside.fm/39 722c0c28-33e8-4f5d-b970-0765b6d93f7d Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:00:00 -0700 Kathleen Mangan full Kathleen Mangan In this episode, Kathy interviews Dr. Michael Smith and Dagny Deutchman from Natura Health and Wellness in Missoula. Topics around sleep health and hygiene include: dreaming, neuroscience of sleep, and how sleep affects the nervous system. 38:43 no Kathy interviews Dr. Michael Smith and Dagny Deutchman from Natura Health and Wellness in Missoula. This interview features a discussion on the neuroscience and physiology of sleep, highlighting its critical roles in memory consolidation, emotional processing, and the "glymphatic" clearing of brain toxins like amyloid beta proteins. The experts emphasize that sleep quality is inextricably linked to daytime habits—such as nutrition, movement, and social connection—and suggest that cultivating curiosity about our dreams can help regulate the nervous system and reduce sleep-related anxiety. Dagny Deutchman is the owner and founder of The Art of Rest. They are a nervous system professional who works from a top down, and bottom up approach to the nervous system specializing in not only in stabilizing a nervous system through sleep, rest, and habit formation, but also how to access nervous system health through connection, creativity, wonder, and awe. Dr. Smith received his medical training from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Before that, he completed a master’s degree in New York City where his research focused on epigenetics and neuroscience. Dr. Smith has previously filled roles in the biotechnology and medical devices sector and various community organizations. For more information about Dr. Smith, visit his personal page at www.drmichaelsmithnd.com. For more information about Doctors White and Smith, and their practice at Natura Health and Wellness, visit www.natura.health (https://natura.health/) https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/e/e29f23f4-3861-41b6-bd17-a8f34d0d3e9b/m8zd-iR3.png Special Guests: Dagney Deutchman and Michael Smith. Natura, Natura Health and Wellness, wmt-ahec, The University of Montana, Red Willow Learning Center, Dreams, Neuroscience, Sleep, Memory, The Brain, Alzheimer's, REM sleep, Nightmares, Nervous system, Adrenal glands, Cortisol, Blood sugar, Loneliness, Blue Zones, Longevity Kathy interviews Dr. Michael Smith and Dagny Deutchman from Natura Health and Wellness in Missoula. This interview features a discussion on the neuroscience and physiology of sleep, highlighting its critical roles in memory consolidation, emotional processing, and the "glymphatic" clearing of brain toxins like amyloid beta proteins. The experts emphasize that sleep quality is inextricably linked to daytime habits—such as nutrition, movement, and social connection—and suggest that cultivating curiosity about our dreams can help regulate the nervous system and reduce sleep-related anxiety.

Dagny Deutchman is the owner and founder of The Art of Rest. They are a nervous system professional who works from a top down, and bottom up approach to the nervous system specializing in not only in stabilizing a nervous system through sleep, rest, and habit formation, but also how to access nervous system health through connection, creativity, wonder, and awe.

Dr. Smith received his medical training from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Before that, he completed a master’s degree in New York City where his research focused on epigenetics and neuroscience. Dr. Smith has previously filled roles in the biotechnology and medical devices sector and various community organizations. For more information about Dr. Smith, visit his personal page at www.drmichaelsmithnd.com.

For more information about Doctors White and Smith, and their practice at Natura Health and Wellness, visit www.natura.health

Special Guests: Dagney Deutchman and Michael Smith.

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]]> Kathy interviews Dr. Michael Smith and Dagny Deutchman from Natura Health and Wellness in Missoula. This interview features a discussion on the neuroscience and physiology of sleep, highlighting its critical roles in memory consolidation, emotional processing, and the "glymphatic" clearing of brain toxins like amyloid beta proteins. The experts emphasize that sleep quality is inextricably linked to daytime habits—such as nutrition, movement, and social connection—and suggest that cultivating curiosity about our dreams can help regulate the nervous system and reduce sleep-related anxiety.

Dagny Deutchman is the owner and founder of The Art of Rest. They are a nervous system professional who works from a top down, and bottom up approach to the nervous system specializing in not only in stabilizing a nervous system through sleep, rest, and habit formation, but also how to access nervous system health through connection, creativity, wonder, and awe.

Dr. Smith received his medical training from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Before that, he completed a master’s degree in New York City where his research focused on epigenetics and neuroscience. Dr. Smith has previously filled roles in the biotechnology and medical devices sector and various community organizations. For more information about Dr. Smith, visit his personal page at www.drmichaelsmithnd.com.

For more information about Doctors White and Smith, and their practice at Natura Health and Wellness, visit www.natura.health

Special Guests: Dagney Deutchman and Michael Smith.

Sponsored By:

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