In this episode of Vital Signs, host Jen Gaudet sits down with Dr. Lynn Rapsilber, co-founder of the National Nurse Practitioner Entrepreneur Network, to discuss how nurse practitioners could play a major role in solving America’s healthcare access crisis. With growing physician shortages, long wait times, and rising healthcare costs, nurse practitioners are increasingly stepping in to deliver patient-centered care especially in rural and underserved communities.

In this eye-opening episode of Vital Signs, host Jen Gaudet sits down with Cristy Plain, Executive Vice President of Sleep Solutions at Dedicated Sleep, to unpack why sleep should be treated like a true health metric not an optional lifestyle perk.

Cristy explains the difference between sleep quantity and sleep quality, and why you can spend 7–8 hours in bed yet still wake up exhausted.

In this eye-opening episode of Vital Signs, host Jen Gaudet sits down with Dr. Michael Schwartz, a naturopathic physician known for helping patients decode root causes instead of masking symptoms. Together, they tackle one of the most dismissed — yet most important — health alarms in modern life: fatigue.

If you’re waking up tired after a full night’s sleep, relying on caffeine to function, and still crashing by night, this conversation reframes exhaustion as a systems issue, not a willpower problem. Dr. Schwartz explains how chronic stress can tax the adrenal system and disrupt the body’s energy regulation, creating cycles of cravings, snacking, and blood-sugar crashes that leave people depleted.