Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#59 - Bedtime Rituals: Right On Time
One often overlooked strategy to improve sleep and manage insomnia is to employs bedtime rituals. While most think of these as activities designed to…
3 years ago
#58 - Lucid Dreaming: You Make My Dreams
The phenomenon of dreaming is an endless fascinating topic for many individuals, and the concept of lucid dreaming is a never-ending source of intere…
3 years ago
#57 - Sleep and Yoga: Gotta Find A Way To Flow
Over the last several decades, there has been a heightened interested in alternative therapies for sleep disorders, and the practice of yoga as a sle…
3 years, 1 month ago
#56 - Sexsomnia: Hard To Explain Last Night
An important subset of parasomnias is sexsomnias--sexual behaviors that arise at night with little or no memory reported from the person involved. In…
3 years, 1 month ago
#55 - Are You Sleepy or Are You Fatigued?: I'm So Tired
One of the biggest misunderstandings in medicine is the differences between sleepiness and fatigue. Add to this poorly defined terms like "tired" and…
3 years, 1 month ago
#54 - Insomnia and the Five Senses: See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me
The five senses are our brain's main way of collecting information about our immediate environment. They have a powerful effect on our moods, cogniti…
3 years, 1 month ago
#53 - Sleep and Green Spaces: Lay Me Down In the Tall Grass
There has been an explosion of research looking at relationships between one's proximity to nature and sleep. During the Covid pandemic, this researc…
3 years, 1 month ago
#52 - Finding the Perfect Mattress: The Bed's Too Big Without You
Perhaps the biggest single influence on your sleep is the surface that you sleep on. Choosing a mattress is a process that combines personal preferen…
3 years, 2 months ago
#51 - Dispatches from the 2023 SLEEP Scientific Conference: A New Sensation
The 2023 SLEEP meeting just concluded in Indianapolis where the greatest sleep minds come together and share the amazing academic and scientific proj…
3 years, 2 months ago
#50 - Is There A Case For Sleeping Pills?: I Wanted To Be Wrong
While we discussed sleeping pills on episode 11 of the podcast, there is a lot of unfinished business here. A recent conversation with a distinguishe…
3 years, 2 months ago