Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#218 - Medication Deprescribing: Get Off This
Nobody blinks when a doctor says you'll be on blood pressure medication for the rest of your life. Say the same sentence about an antidepressant, or …
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#217 - Modern Night Shift and Circadian Adaptation: Up All Night
Our current gig economy did not just create new jobs, it expanded a whole new category of night worker, from rideshare drivers to online freelancers …
1 week ago
#216 - Nasal Strips and Sleep: Leave Me Breathless
Nasal strips have been a fixture in pharmacy aisles and on athletes' faces for decades, sold on the promise of easier breathing, but the peer-reviewe…
2 weeks ago
#215 - Seqoquel and Insomnia: Same Thing From The Same Old Cause
Ten million prescriptions a year, and most of them aren't for what the drug was built to treat. Seroquel started life as an antipsychotic — engineere…
3 weeks ago
#214 - Top 10 Sleep Threat Power Rankings: They Couldn’t See It
Most "top sleep threats" lists stick to one lane — pediatric or adult, clinical or cultural. Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown's list refuses to. It jumps from…
4 weeks ago
#213 - Research from the 2026 SLEEP Scientific Conference: Something New
Every June, thousands of sleep researchers descend on one city and quietly rewrite what we think we know about a third of our lives. This year it was…
1 month ago
#212 - Deep Sleep and REM Sleep: A Deeper Understanding, Lost In A Dream
Deep sleep and REM sleep get lumped together as "good sleep," but they're almost opposite states — one is the quietest your brain gets all night, the…
1 month, 1 week ago
#211 - Insomnia and Sleep Apnea: Just Don’t Know
We tend to think of insomnia and sleep apnea as two completely different sleep disorders. One means you can't sleep. The other means you stop breathi…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
#210 - Top 10 Sleep Threat Power Rankings: Stop Right Now, Thank You Very Much
This week marks the 12th month we have put out the Top 10 Sleep Threats Power Rankings, and this week, we have a special guest assessor, Upneet Chawl…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
#209 - Sleep Quantity or Consistency…which is Queen?: Your Future’s At Stake
Sleep duration has always been the headline number in sleep science, but mounting research is pushing the conversation toward something less obvious:…
2 months ago