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😴 Sleep Medicine: Dr. Sam Kashani Answers Your Questions · Drama, Darling: A Real Housewives Comedy Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Drama, Darling Drama, Darling Drama, Darling.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, welcome in Darlings. This is a very exciting, a
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  Speaker 2: very special episode about sleep. Joining me is the incredible
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  Speaker 2: doctor Sam Kashani. He is an MD and he is
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  Speaker 2: a d ABSM. What do those words and those letters mean?
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  Speaker 2: He's going to tell us all about it in a second. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Kashani, how are you welcome?
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  Speaker 3: Hi, good evening. Thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, this is so exciting. So I know how busy
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  Speaker 2: you are as a doctor, but doctor Kashani has allowed
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  Speaker 2: me some time graciously to ask him a million questions,
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  Speaker 2: not only to talk about my own sleep journey, but
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  Speaker 2: but I've gotten so many questions from you guys, So
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much for submitting them. And we're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk all about sleep. So this is a great
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  Speaker 2: episode to not be snoozing on. It's not about housewives, guys,
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  Speaker 2: but this is going to be very interesting. And actually,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Kashani, so many people were just like messaging me
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  Speaker 2: when I was asking them for questions and they were like,
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  Speaker 2: this is so cool. I cannot wait to hear about this.
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  Speaker 2: So you're on my friend, So this is so cool.
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  Speaker 2: So I met you up here in Santa Clarita, but
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  Speaker 2: because of my own sleep issues. But can you tell
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  Speaker 2: me a little bit about, like where you went to school,
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  Speaker 2: what your background is, and what brought you to study
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  Speaker 2: sleep medicine.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, so I, as I was saying a moment ago,
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  Speaker 3: I actually am a film school graduate. My bachelor's degree
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  Speaker 3: is in cinema on television Arts. My passion initially was
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  Speaker 3: screenwriting and producing, so got my degree in that and
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  Speaker 3: I started working in the industry, which was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fun. I got to work on some pretty big movies.
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  Speaker 3: I got to work for Sony Picture Studios for a
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  Speaker 3: little while, which was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 4: Rash, no kidding, Yeah, it.
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  Speaker 3: Was pretty awesome. And then what.
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  Speaker 4: Are some of the movies you worked on?
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  Speaker 3: I have to ask, sure, Shutter Island.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that is such a phenomenal movie.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, what else? What else?
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  Speaker 3: Other movies that I was working on include Zodiac with
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  Speaker 3: Jake Chillenhall that was about the Zodiac murders in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so a couple of cool movies like that. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, after a while, I kind of got tired
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  Speaker 3: of working for the big corporation or the big studio,
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  Speaker 3: just because you know, it's a lot of fun and
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  Speaker 3: it's a really exciting environment and watching sort of you
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  Speaker 3: know how the industry works. But I realized that my
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  Speaker 3: whole reason for doing this was I wanted to be
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  Speaker 3: creative and make my own films. So once I quit
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  Speaker 3: working for Sony, I started producing my own films and
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  Speaker 3: I actually got to make a few documentary films that
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  Speaker 3: had some pretty decent success. I got to show them
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  Speaker 3: at film festivals internationally and show them the BBC, so
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  Speaker 3: that was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, those films accessible for us to watch, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have clips of them on YouTube, and then
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  Speaker 3: I sell one of them on Amazon. Okay, of course
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  Speaker 3: you get a free comfy obviously, but yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 3: after all that, it was really nice kind of traveling
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  Speaker 3: and showing the film in different festivals and speaking and whatnot.
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  Speaker 3: But one day I woke up a broke filmmaker and
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  Speaker 3: decided that was probably the sign to go back to school.
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  Speaker 3: And initially I was thinking about it. All told me
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  Speaker 3: about it, especially in that industry. But you know, initially
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  Speaker 3: in my mind I was thinking, maybe I should go
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  Speaker 3: get a master's in film and then you know, work
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  Speaker 3: as a film professor as a nine to five and
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  Speaker 3: then still do movies on the side. But that didn't
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  Speaker 3: really make a whole lot of sense to me. So
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  Speaker 3: fast forward, long story short, I just figured that the
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  Speaker 3: best thing would be to go back to school to
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  Speaker 3: establish a career that would provide me stability and that
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  Speaker 3: I can always revisit film later on.
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  Speaker 2: So you're like, oh, well, just be a doctor. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: who does that, Like that's insane. Oh my gosh, okay, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: go on, that's so cool.
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  Speaker 4: But you're like, okay, I'm going to go do this.
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  Speaker 3: That was pretty much it. And you know, I don't
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  Speaker 3: recommend that as a rationale to choose medical school. It
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  Speaker 3: should not be something that you do with the idea
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  Speaker 3: of going back into film or something later on. It's
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  Speaker 3: really medical school is obviously at medicine, and a career
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  Speaker 3: in medicine is a tremendous commitment. So I kind of
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  Speaker 3: went in thinking, all right, I'll just be a doctor
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  Speaker 3: and then I can make movies later. And then once
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  Speaker 3: I got into med school, I was like, okay, this
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  Speaker 3: is a little bit more involved. I really have to
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  Speaker 3: kind of sync myself in this in this information in
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  Speaker 3: this study. So I just kind of really really dove
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  Speaker 3: deep into med school. I studied really hard, never having
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  Speaker 3: taken a science class before in undergrad or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: And then as far as picking sleep medicine, I just
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  Speaker 3: wanted to try different specialties. I really liked a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of everything, but I tried sleep medicine as a
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  Speaker 3: resident in training. I realized that there was a lot
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  Speaker 3: more to sleep medicine than just sleep apnea and seapath machines.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of where my interest in sleep medicine started.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a really nice marriage of neurology and pulmonary
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  Speaker 3: medicine and behavioral medicine all than one.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it is Oh my gosh, that is just
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  Speaker 2: so fascinating. And you went to school for medicine. Where
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  Speaker 2: did you go?
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  Speaker 3: I went to the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: It's an international school that's English speaking. It's mainly for
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  Speaker 3: American students. And it's cool because you get to do
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  Speaker 3: essentially half of medical school at the main campus in
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  Speaker 3: Mexico and then your second half of med school because
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  Speaker 3: usually the third and fourth years of med school are
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  Speaker 3: clinical years, where you're in hospitals and clinic settings. So
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  Speaker 3: the way that they have it set up is that
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  Speaker 3: you do the entire third and fourth year in United
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  Speaker 3: States hospitals. So it was pretty cool. I got to
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  Speaker 3: be in Mexico for two years, and then I did
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  Speaker 3: my years three and four in New York, and then
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  Speaker 3: I graduated with my MD, and then I came back
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  Speaker 3: to California for residency and then I did fellowship in
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  Speaker 3: sleep medicine at UCLA.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's amazing. What a story.
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  Speaker 4: Mine is so similar. We had so much in common.
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  Speaker 4: Oh wow, that is so cool.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm so lucky that I got to meet you,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, I've always had issues with my sleep
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  Speaker 2: since I was younger, and I finally did something about it,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, I have got to talk to
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  Speaker 2: someone about it, and it's really changed my life. And
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  Speaker 2: it is just such a fascinating field, I believe, and
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's also what's the word I'm looking for?
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  Speaker 2: Under appreciated, not utilized enough? Why is that? Why don't
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  Speaker 2: we get more opportunities to study our sleep or have
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  Speaker 2: insurance cover certain things?
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  Speaker 4: Do you have answers for that?
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  Speaker 3: What an important question? And this is something that we
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  Speaker 3: talk about a lot in terms of just sort of
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  Speaker 3: sort of where sleep medicine and sleep disorders fit within
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  Speaker 3: the landscape of health care and medicine, just because, first
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  Speaker 3: of all, it's very multifactorial, and it starts sometimes with
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  Speaker 3: people themselves. A lot of people have sleep issues and
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  Speaker 3: don't know that there's such thing as a sleep doctor
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  Speaker 3: that they can see, or a sleep study or sleep
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  Speaker 3: test that they can complete to diagnose or evaluate what
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  Speaker 3: their problem is. Believe it or not, there are a
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  Speaker 3: lot of doctors and clinicians out there that don't know
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  Speaker 3: that sleep medicine is a specialty and that they are
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  Speaker 3: sleep specific or sleep specializing physicians like myself. So I
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  Speaker 3: think awareness is a big part of it, a lack
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  Speaker 3: of awareness in the general population as well as a
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  Speaker 3: lack of awareness even in the healthcare population in the
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  Speaker 3: healthcare setting. So that's one part of it. And then
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  Speaker 3: another thing is sleep disorders are felt differently by every
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  Speaker 3: single person. I mean, when we're talking about symptoms like fatigue,
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  Speaker 3: daytime sleepiness, difficulties with concentration, irritability, and all the number
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  Speaker 3: of other daytime issues that we see associated with sleep disorders.
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  Speaker 3: Number One, they're not terribly specific, because there's only one
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  Speaker 3: million reasons to be tired during the daytime and number
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  Speaker 3: two a lot of people. Because human beings are so
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  Speaker 3: good at adapting, we often kind of on our own
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  Speaker 3: determine our own sort of remedies, whether it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: scheduling an app in the afternoon, or having a certain
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  Speaker 3: amount of caffeine to get through the day, or making
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  Speaker 3: sure we get you know, a certain amount of sleep
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  Speaker 3: at night time. So we have our own kind of
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  Speaker 3: ways to adapt to things like sleep issues, and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: that will also kind of prevent people from being evaluated
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  Speaker 3: for sleep issues. So all that to say that it
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  Speaker 3: is very multi factorial, everything from perception of symptoms to
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  Speaker 3: just overall awareness of sleep as a specialty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was wondering, you know, did you have any
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  Speaker 2: sleep issues as you were growing up or was any
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  Speaker 2: of that part of your story at getting into this.
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  Speaker 3: Not exactly, but I did have as far as sleep issues.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess everybody experiences insomnia from time to time,
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  Speaker 3: which we define insomnia as any difficulty falling asleep, any
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  Speaker 3: difficulty staying asleep, or both of those things. We all
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  Speaker 3: experiperience it. Here and there transiently. Sometimes it can be chronic.
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  Speaker 3: But I guess the only sleep disorder that I can
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  Speaker 3: think of that I have in my history is when
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  Speaker 3: I was a teenager, like many other teenagers, probably well
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  Speaker 3: over fifty percent of teenagers globally, I experienced what's called
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  Speaker 3: delayed sleep face syndrome, which is a mouthful to just
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  Speaker 3: say that a person who is sleeping later and waking
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  Speaker 3: up later, which is very typical for the teenage age group, right,
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  Speaker 3: And you know, you have a teenager very often who
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  Speaker 3: has fallen asleep at four in the morning and fallen
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  Speaker 3: asleep in class because they have to wake up at seven.
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  Speaker 3: But then on the weekends they're sleeping till two three pm.
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  Speaker 3: So that was definitely me. But not that that's also
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  Speaker 3: not like this concerning or like a scary sleep disorder,
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  Speaker 3: because that usually works itself out with right person getting
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  Speaker 3: older and having to work.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, that makes so much sense. Well with my experience,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's always, you know, you just sort of feel like, well,
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  Speaker 2: everyone is tired, and I've always felt like that my
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  Speaker 2: whole life. Everyone's tired. They're just hustling, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: you do. So I, as you guys. Know, I've talked
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about some of my sleep issues. I
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  Speaker 2: brought it to the forefront because of this sleep study
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  Speaker 2: that I got to take, which was wild. If you
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  Speaker 2: saw the graphic that I posted for this episode, you
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  Speaker 2: will have seen me in the corner, you know, hooked
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  Speaker 2: up to all of this stuff. So when I first
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  Speaker 2: went and saw doctor Kashani, you know, it was actually
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  Speaker 2: so cool and it was sort of fun because you
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  Speaker 2: ended up you talked to my husband for a little while.
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  Speaker 2: We got him on the phone a couple times actually,
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  Speaker 2: because as you had mentioned, you know, what's better than
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  Speaker 2: having a great witness to your sleep than the person who's.
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  Speaker 4: Right next to you.
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  Speaker 2: And and sure Brett really had some things to say,
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  Speaker 2: so he was able to clarify a few things for
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  Speaker 2: doctor Kashani what was happening. And you had diagnosed me
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  Speaker 2: originally what you thought was potentially idiopathic hypersomnia, and so
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  Speaker 2: we sort of landed there. And then the idea was
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  Speaker 2: that I would eventually get a sleep study to see
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  Speaker 2: what that would tell us, which I ended up doing,
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  Speaker 2: and essentially it landed right back where you had started,
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  Speaker 2: which was it pretty much told us that based on
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  Speaker 2: what had happened in the sleep study. So could you
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  Speaker 2: explain a little bit about what happens in a sleep
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  Speaker 2: study that isn't just for finding out if you have apnea,
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  Speaker 2: because there are two kinds. I did the sleep apnea
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  Speaker 2: test at home, so you need to talk a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about that.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. So the sleep study that you did is a
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  Speaker 3: two part sleep study. There's a nighttime portion and then
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  Speaker 3: the daytime portion. Now, the nighttime portion of the study
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  Speaker 3: you did is a very typical overnight sleep study that
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  Speaker 3: we do in the center. It's similar to a home
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  Speaker 3: sleep test, and that we're looking for kind of the
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  Speaker 3: simple things like sleep apnea. But we have to do
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  Speaker 3: that nighttime test before we do a daytime test to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that your nighttime sleep is normal and that
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  Speaker 3: you got enough sleep before you did the daytime test,
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  Speaker 3: because the daytime test is really where we're diagnosing things
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  Speaker 3: like narcolepsy at idiopathic hypersomnia. So the way that the
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  Speaker 3: daytime test works is so first of all, the nighttime
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  Speaker 3: you check in at night, you get hooked up to
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  Speaker 3: the wires. There's brain wave monitoring, there's muscle monitoring with
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  Speaker 3: wires on your legs, there's heart monitoring with wires on
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  Speaker 3: the chest. There's respiratory or breathing monitoring with an oxygen
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  Speaker 3: monitor on your finger and a canula up here. So
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  Speaker 3: you get all wired up and then you sleep until
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  Speaker 3: about six o'clock in the morning, and that's that. When
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  Speaker 3: you wake up in the morning, you have a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a break, and then the daytime Sleep Touch.
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  Speaker 3: The daytime Sleep test works a little bit differently. You
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  Speaker 3: get five opportunities to take a nap, and each of
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  Speaker 3: these nap opportunities is about twenty minutes in duration and
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  Speaker 3: they are about two hours apart from each other. So
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  Speaker 3: for example, nap number one would start at seven am
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  Speaker 3: and go to seven twenty. Then you're free to hang
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  Speaker 3: out or DM your sleep doctor on Instagram for example.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I got to keep a jud you got
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  Speaker 2: to keep you up to speed on what's going on
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  Speaker 2: that sleeps.
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  Speaker 3: I loved. That was definitely. And then each two hours,
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  Speaker 3: as two hours goes by, nine am to nine twenty
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  Speaker 3: would be the second nap, and then eleven am to
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  Speaker 3: eleven twenty the third nap, and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 3: And the way that we did the reason that we
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  Speaker 3: do the test this way, it's not a perfect test,
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  Speaker 3: but essentially what we're looking at is how quickly did
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  Speaker 3: you fall asleep on each of these five naps, And
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  Speaker 3: given that the first one starts at seven and the
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  Speaker 3: last one ends like pretty much in the mid afternoon,
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  Speaker 3: it kind of gives you an idea of how sleepy
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  Speaker 3: are you during the daytime and how quickly can you
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  Speaker 3: lapse into a drowsy state or a sleep state at
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  Speaker 3: any given time of day from seven am to the
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  Speaker 3: mid afternoon. So what we do is we take the
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  Speaker 3: time that it took you to fall asleep across the
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  Speaker 3: five naps and we average it. And the criteria for
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  Speaker 3: what's considered pathologic sleepiness is if you fell asleep across
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  Speaker 3: the five naps in an average of eight minutes or less,
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  Speaker 3: and then as far as if you did meet that criteria,
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  Speaker 3: then the diagnosis either becomes narcolepsy or idiopathic hypersomnia. What
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  Speaker 3: separates those two from each other is if on those naps,
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  Speaker 3: if you hit rem sleep abnormally early, which is a
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  Speaker 3: feature of narcilepsy, then that supports the narchilepsy diagnosis. But
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  Speaker 3: if you don't hit rem sleep on any of those
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  Speaker 3: five naps, and you just meant the first criteria of
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  Speaker 3: eight minutes or less than the diagnosis is idiopathic hypersong.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, spoken like a true a doctor. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: really encapsulated that perfectly. And when I found out when
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  Speaker 2: they were like, you know, when you just explained you
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  Speaker 2: get five sleep opportunities to take a nap, because I
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  Speaker 2: think to myself, oh my god, five opportunities to take
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  Speaker 2: a nap.
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  Speaker 4: That sounds like a dream.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of took this as a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a vacation. Yes, it's uncomfortable. The night was uncomfortable mostly,
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  Speaker 2: but then when I got to the daytime, I was
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  Speaker 2: you know, every single time I took those naps, you
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  Speaker 2: know what happened. I fell asleep under eight minutes, I
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  Speaker 2: think with everyone, which is why we ended up with
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  Speaker 2: idiopathic hypersomnia. I did not hit the rem sleep within
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  Speaker 2: that time, so that excluded me from the narcolepsy club,
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  Speaker 2: and so I remain over with idiopathic hypersomnia. One of
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  Speaker 2: the things that really blew my mind was when you
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  Speaker 2: had asked me, when you take a nap because I'm
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  Speaker 2: so exhausted during the day all my life and I
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  Speaker 2: just pushed through, push through. But if I ever get
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to take a nap, I'll take it. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't like taking it because I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: wake up, and when I do wake up, I feel
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  Speaker 2: worse like I don't feel relieved, I don't feel refreshed.
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  Speaker 2: And you would ask me that specific question, you said,
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  Speaker 2: when you wake up from a nap, do you feel refreshed?
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  Speaker 2: And I said, you know what, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: And so the difference between would you say, someone who
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  Speaker 2: has narcolepsy and then the hypersomnia, that's part of it.
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  Speaker 2: The difference between those.
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  Speaker 3: Two definitely up a really good point. Now, with that said,
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  Speaker 3: with IH and with narcolepsy, this is like a controversial
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  Speaker 3: conversation in our field. When all of the sleep nerds
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  Speaker 3: get together at the conferences that we go to, there's
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  Speaker 3: always kind of a lot of talk about is IH
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  Speaker 3: something separate from narcolepsy? Is it just another is it
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  Speaker 3: just a type or a type two narcolepsy as we
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  Speaker 3: would call it, and are we just giving it this
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  Speaker 3: name for no reason when in fact, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these people who have IH, or who test positive for
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  Speaker 3: IEH may have features of narcolepsy, while some people with
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  Speaker 3: narcolepsy have you know, they may test positive for IH
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  Speaker 3: and vice versa. So all that to say, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of overlap between these two and many of us
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  Speaker 3: in the sleep world actually don't necessarily separate these two.
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  Speaker 3: They're seen as on one spectrum of hypersnolens. Bottom line,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: these are all words. But if we're talking the classic
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: textbook kind of definition or picture of each one of
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: these two entities. So the classic narcolepsy picture is excessive
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: sleepiness that's always there. It's the prominent core feature, but
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: the secondary or ancillary symptoms they have might be different, Like,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: for example, a lot of people with narcolepsy, and by
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: the way, before I say these ancillary symptoms, not even
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: everybody has these. What everybody always has is sleepiness that's
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: always present. But the secondary symptoms that are more narcolepsy
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: like are hallucinations in the moments that you're just falling asleep.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: A lot of times people might feel like they started
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: dreaming already before they even fell asleep, or they might
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: see shadows or figures in their room, or hear voices
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: as they're just kind of drifting off similarly as they're
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: coming out of sleep, so like as they're just entering wakefulness,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: similar they might have hallucinations there. So it's like kind
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: of at those transitions into and out of sleep that
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: they have these weird sort of phenomena. Similarly, also at
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: the sleep to wake and wake to sleep transition. A
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: lot of people with narcalypsy experience recurring sleep paralysis, which
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: sleep paralysis if anybody's ever had it, it's that scary
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: feeling where you feel like you just can't move, you're frozen.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: You try to move or try to make a noise
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: and you can't. And sometimes people will have the two
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: of these things together where they'll have a hallucination and
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: be paralyzed at the same moment, which can be very scary.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Of course, now with that said, the healthy population of people,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: we can all experience sleep paralysis and hallucinations falling asleep
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: or exiting sleep, but it just so happens that the
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: classic narcolepsy picture is the sleepiness plus these other things.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: And then, as to what you were saying, the daytime
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: naps typically in narcolepsy are refreshing, and so that's pretty
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: much that's narcylepsy. Now, as far as IH, the classic
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: IEH picture is once again excessive sleepiness. That's always the
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: core feature, but as far as the daytime, another thing
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: that a lot of people with IH report is brain
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: fog as well as unrefreshing naps regardless of how sleepy
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: they feel. So they might feel really really sleepy and
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: the need to sleep, but they don't wake up feeling refreshed.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: And similarly, a lot of people with IH when they
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: wake up in the morning from their nocturnal sleep, they
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: experience a lot of sleep inertia, which is like that feeling, yeah,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: it's like really hard to wake the brain up kind
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: of feeling in the morning. And then one other thing
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: about IH classically is compared to narcolepsi, a lot of
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: people with IH will have very prolonged sleep times. When
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: they're left to sleep ad lib with no alarm clock,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: they can sleep for like twelve fourteen, sometimes more hours
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: than that. So those are kind of like the textbook
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: descriptions of both, but again a lot of people fit
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: in between. A lot of people have features of one
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: and might actually test for the other, and not to
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: mention treatment is identical between the two so this is
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: all part of the reason why many of us feel
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: like this really just represents one spectrum.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, so when you go to like a sleep convention,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: what side of the room are you on? And are
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: you ready to fight some other people?
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: I'm kidding?
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: So where do you stand with the with the difference
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: and the controversy with you know, having IH in its
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: own category, and you know, where are you with that
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: good question?
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of undecided, to be honest with you, And
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: I say undecided because even though I do believe that
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: these two different entities, I mean, their classic pictures present
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: very differently from one another, despite the overlap of sleepiness.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, I've seen so many people
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: the whole testing having one and testing positive for the
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: other thing has happened to me so many times that
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: that's kind of what makes me think, Okay, are we
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: actually talking about the same thing? And maybe these people
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: just express the symptoms differently or the syndrome differently. But
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: I also try not to get too tied up into
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: these into these things, because at the end of the day,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: all these things are just words.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: You don't want the drama, darling, I want the dramas that.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna show up at one of those conventions
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: and just strow the pot and be like, guess what
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Let me just.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Also clarify or ask for some clarification. If you have
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: sleep paralysis and hallucinations, that doesn't necessarily mean that you
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: have IH or narcolepsy exactly correct.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: In fact, the most common triggers are the most common
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: causes of sleep paralysis, episodes and hallucinations at the sleep
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: wake and wake sleep transitions is sleep deprivation and stress.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: So I, for example, recently took a trip to overseas
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: and it was a really long flight. It took like
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: twenty something hours just to get back to LA and
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: not to mention, I'm super sleep deprived and adjusted to
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: the time zone in the other country. And then as
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: soon as I got back home, I took a nap
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: in the middle of the day because I was so sleepy,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: and then I woke up with a really intense sleep
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: paralysis and a hallucination to go with it, no.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Way, Oh my gosh.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so those things can happen.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: To anybody, Oh my gosh.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: So yes, I've experienced sleep paralysis since I was young,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I've experienced hallucinations since I was young, not as much
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: when I was young, but I have noticed now that
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: makes sense when you bring stress into it, because I've
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: noticed that they kind of ebb and flow. You know.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I haven't had a lot of hallucinations, the terrifying ones
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: in several years that are really bad. But there was
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: a time where I would just see like a like
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: a serpent in front of me, like coming at me.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, great, a serpent, how fun? Large insects
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: crawling up the walls. Yes, snakes figures like you said.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: And now what I normally do in terms of my
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: hallucinations happen. As you had mentioned, there's a difference between
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: you know, falling asleep and having them and then waking up.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Mine are usually waking up and I'm having them, and
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: then I'm in the middle of the night going why
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: am I sitting up and staring at my my beautiful
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: pictures on the wall that I thought were clowns, you know, dancing,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: you know on a cruise ship. You know, they're not
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: as scary, They're weird. And I usually fixate on something
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: in the room and it turns into something else. So
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: that's you know I could list off a million things,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: but I also want to ask you, if you what
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: is your opinion on ghosts, because now that we know
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: about sleep paralysis and hallucinations when you're dreaming, so many people. Oh,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I think I lost you. Okay, we got disconnected. Literally
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: he went his screen went completely black. So I think
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I know his answer. He believes in ghosts, because that
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: was paranormal activity.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: So getting back to my question, do.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: You believe that most of the paranormal activity or people
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: seeing things are due to sleep hallucinations?
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting. I was asked a similar question
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: on another podcast recently.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: And me personally, I made up a question. No, I'm kidding.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: No, you know, I'm a very spiritual person honestly, but
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: this is what I do for a living, so it's
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: kind of hard for me to separate things like this
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: from just knowing that it's neurologic phenomena. Again, I don't
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: want to sound like a boring doctor and.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Sound the church and state, Church and state. I get it,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: you know it's the right answer. Well, I can say
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: my opinion, and I think it's a little bit of both.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that there most of the time
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: when people see something, it's usually in the middle of
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: the night, you know what I mean, Like, come on,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: it's probably a hallucination.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, let's be real.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: If it's during the day, different story. But if you're
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: napping and it's during the day and you see it
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: during the day.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: It's probably a sleepy illucination.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean that I don't believe in those
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: types of activities and things of that nature. I am
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: totally open to that. So that being said, I just
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: never thought about that until recently. You know, it explains
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: a lot. I could have said that every place I've
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: lived in has been haunted because I'm seeing the craziest things,
• 25:10
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• 25:13
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• 25:18
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  Speaker 2: Oh I forgot to ask you, by the way, what
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  Speaker 2: do your letters mean?
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  Speaker 4: Your MD?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, but what does the DABSM stand for?
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  Speaker 3: So dabsim Actually it's technically a discontinued credential at this point.
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  Speaker 3: It stands for diplom It stands for diplomatic. American Board
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: of Sleep Medicine, but the American Board of Sleep Medicine
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  Speaker 3: a few years back they dissolved unfortunately, So now you
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  Speaker 3: get certified in sleep medicine based on your primary specialty.
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  Speaker 3: So if you did internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics. You
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  Speaker 3: get certified in sleep through that accreditation body. It's just
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  Speaker 3: medical politics.
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  Speaker 2: They shut them down. I'm telling you give the sleep medicine.
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  Speaker 3: A chance, right, my thoughts exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well, we've got some really great questions.
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  Speaker 2: Some are similar to others, so I'm going to try
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: to put them all in kind of some categories. But
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  Speaker 2: first off, let's just talk about waking up in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the night staying asleep. Colleen wants to know.
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  Speaker 2: She says, I fall asleep pretty easily in bed, dark,
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  Speaker 2: cool room, but wake up a few hours later and
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: have difficulty falling back asleep. How can I stay asleep?
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  Speaker 3: Very good question, very common scenario that we see in
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: sleep clinics. So the difficulty with maint haining sleep as
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: opposed to the difficulty with initiating sleep in the first
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: part of the night, it always brings up the question
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: is is something happening during sleep itself that is unstable,
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: that is allowing for these awakenings or this fragmentation of
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: the nighttime sleep. The awakenings could very well just be
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: totally spontaneous, but by talking to a sleep doctor or
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: to your doctor a little bit more about kind of
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: you know, whether there are other issues like snoring or
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: anything else that might suggest that there's something happening during sleep,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: like sleep apnea, Because sleep apnea, I mean, that's just
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: one example, but one of the most common symptoms of
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: sleep apnea when it's untreated is difficulty staying asleep. So
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: and that's just one sleep disorder that can cause that.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: So all that to say that it very well could
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: be that none of that is at play here and
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: that we're this person is just having a spontaneous awakening
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: and then having difficulty getting back to sleep, in which
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: case that's a pretty clear cut case of insomnia, and
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: we've got wonderful treatment options for that that extend beyond
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: sleeping pills, which are not the first line treatment for insomnia.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: But in general, when somebody has a pretty dominant or
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: an exclusive difficulty with maintaining sleep through the night, it
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: brings up a lot of other questions because again, it
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: suggests that there might be something happening during sleep that
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: may need to be tested on a sleep study. Compare
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: that to somebody who has exclusive difficulty with falling asleep
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: in the beginning of the night and once they are asleep,
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: sleep is stable and uninterrupted until they wake up in
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: the morning. That is less suggestive of something happening during sleep, obviously,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: because a person hasn't fallen asleep yet. So that's that
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: paints more of the kind of clear insomnia picture. But
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: when it's the difficulty staying asleep and only staying asleep,
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: it could very well just be an insomnia picture. But again,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: it does introduce the possibility that there's something during sleep
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: happening that could be causing the instability.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Would you put that in the same category of somebody
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: who someone like Leah, who will read a little bit
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: each night and she will fall asleep and then she
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: says she wakes up after thirty minutes, and then she
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: feels like she's been asleep for six hours, and then
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: she's tossing or turning for an hour or two before
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: she can fall back asleep. Is that similar to somebody
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: who's been asleep for a few hours and then wakes up.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Is it the same thing? Okay, very much?
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: So Okay, Leah and Colleen, looks like you two need
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: to get together and figure this out.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Sounds like we've got the same little issue.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: But I also find it interesting for you to that
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: you touched on insomnia being right at the you know, the.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Top of top of the boards, right when you hit
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: the sack.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: So there are Like you said, the first line of
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: treatment may not be medicine. Do you give people exercises
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: to do before they go to sleep or how do
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: you typically try and treat the insomnia?
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Great questions. So when it comes to treating insomnia, sleeping
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: pills or hypnotics as we call them, they are an option,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: and of course as a sleep physician, I do prescribe
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: them because every single person is different and every single
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: person's preference on how they want to treat their issue
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: is obviously different. So would that being the case, that
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: is an option. But the most effective treatment for insomnia,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: based on all of insomnia literature that we have, and
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: you can look this up if you just google it,
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: you'll see tons and tons of data, is cognitive behavioral
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: therapy for insomnia, also known as CBTI. There is so
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: much data demonstrating how effective this treatment is. In fact,
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: there are even studies that have compared the effectiveness of
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: CBTI head to head versus sleeping pills like Ambient and
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Lunesta and still CBTI shows superior effect both short term
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: and long term. So that's why we typically recommend CBTI
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: as first line therapy for adults with insomnia, and I myself,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I'll deliver the CBTI myself, or sometimes what can be
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: really effective in certain cases is just taking pieces of
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: CBTI or components of CBTI and then prescribing them by themselves,
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: because without getting too much into the detail of what's
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: involved in CBTI, it's like you can think of it
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: kind of like a little bit like a sleep boot
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: camp almost where essentially you're put on these kind of
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: protocols that are very well studied, behavioral protocols that are
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: very well studied. You're given a set of instructions, You're
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: given a sleep log or a sleep diary to track
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: your sleep and track your progress. And it goes way
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: beyond your typical basics of just having good sleep habits
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: and good sleep hygiene at nighttime, because we all know
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: that just having good sleep habits and making your room cool, dark,
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: and quiet is not enough to treat fifteen years of
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: insomnia usually, so that being the case, CBTI is a
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: little bit more involved than that, and as long as
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: the person is adherent, it really works better than anything else.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: And the best comparison that I can make make with
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: CBTI is like, if I struggle with obesity and I
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: want to get on an evidence based diet that's been
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: proven to help people in my weight range and in
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: my age range, because I'm starting to get high blood
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: pressure and fatty liver and all that stuff. So what
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: do I do. I sign up with a nutritionist and
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: I have weekly sessions or weekly appointments with that nutritionist.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: The first session, they're probably just going to give me
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: my diet, right, They're going to tell me what I
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: can eat, what I can't eat, what my calorie count
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: is for the day, what my macros, proteins, fats, carbs
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: for the day. Is give me a food log so
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: that I can log my meals and make sure I'm
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: tracking my weights in progress. And then every week when
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: I go back to that attritionists that those follow ups,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: it's just looking at my diary, tracking how I'm doing,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: making sure I'm not having difficulty with implementing the diet,
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: because diets are difficult obviously, So that's kind of how
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: CBTI is. In the very beginning. You're kind of given
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: this set of protocols and instructions that have been very
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: well studying, tons of evidence, and they just send you
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: on your way to practice those things and implement those things,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: and you track it all in your sleep log and
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: have follow up visits to make sure you're going in
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: the right direction.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: What an incredible use of CBT. I had no idea.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: I had no idea that there was something specific to
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: help people like that. That's really incredible. So let's move
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: on to some sleep episodes. I guess, for lack of
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: better words, what we touched on paralysis because Steven from
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Creek Talk podcast shout out. He was asking, how can
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I stop having sleep paralysis? It's been happening since I
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: was a kid, and I'm forty five and still getting it.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: And we have a couple other people who chimed in
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: about wanting to know about sleep paralysis also. So one
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: of the things you had already touched on is that
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: you may not necessarily have IH or narcolepsy if you
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: do get the sleep paralysis, but if you do have
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: it and that's the only thing you have, how can
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: you help, Well, you said, stress, So just stop stressing out, Stephen,
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: I mean it's that simple. Yeah, what do you have
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: any suggestions on specifically sleep paralysis.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. So if we are indeed talking about sleep paralysis,
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: sleep paralysis in the absence of any other suspicion that
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: there might be something else going on, because a history
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: of sleep paralysis for the last twenty thirty years plus
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: feeling tired and sleepy, well, now that's suspicious for narcolepsy.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: But apart from that, if it is recurring and for
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: this long period of time, and we're not concerned for
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: sleepiness or any other sleep issue and it's just isolated
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: sleep paralysis, there is if it's really a problem. Because
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: of course sleep paralysis doesn't re wire treatment, but in
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: some cases the hallucinations and the paralysis can be frequent
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: enough to cause a lot of distress to the person
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: and not to mention the hallucinations themselves sometimes can be
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: very terrifying for a lot of people, and very often
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: that will bring them to ar clinic. As far as
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: options for treatment, low dose antidepressants actually have been shown
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: to be very beneficial in reducing the frequency of sleep
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: paralysis and hallucination episodes, and the reason.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: For maybe that's why I don't have them that much anymore,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: because I am on a load doses as a r
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: That is very bad. That is very common. So an okay,
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: any medication that increases serotonin, or any medication that is serotonergic,
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: because serotonin has this effect that it can kind of
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: mask or reduce the phenomena of REM sleep. And I
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: say REM sleep meaning rapid eye movement sleep, because all
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: these things are sleep paralysis, hallucinations, falling asleep or waking up,
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: these are all components of rapid eye movement and sleep.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: What happens when we're in rapidi movement sleep, our muscles
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: get totally paralyzed. And it's for that reason that we
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: don't act our dreams out because and it's exclusively during
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: rapidi movement sleep that our muscles is paralyzed. Because obviously
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: we move around all night when we're in other stages
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: of sleep, but when we're in that stage of sleep,
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: typically our muscles get paralyzed and we start dreaming. So
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: think about it like this sleep paralysis, hallucinations. It's kind
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: of like the muscle paralysis and the dreams and imagery
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: of REM sleep, except it's kind of spilling out a
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: little bit and leaking into that moment that you're just
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: waking up. For example, So when you take a serotonergic
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: medication like an SSRI or an SNRI, these medications, because
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: they can reduce REM sleep phenomena, they secondarily people notice
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: that the sleep paralysis and hallucinations improve as well.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Well, here I am thinking I just must have outgrown them,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: you know, even for a second. I mean, oh my gosh,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: see I continue to learn.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: On that note, I have another question about a sleep
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: episode situation. Julie says, So this is weird. I act
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: out my dreams and kick and punch in my sleep.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: I remember these dreams and I'm usually fighting off an attacker,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: so it's very violent. I scare my poor dog. I
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: can't seem to track if anything triggers it. Why am
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: I doing this?
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Julie is describing what we call REM sleep behavior disorder. Well,
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: she's specifically describing dream and actment behavior. But when we
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: hear dream and actment behavior, especially the way that you're
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: describing it, with the nature of the dreams surrounding conflict
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: and violence and things like that, it is very suggestive
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: of something called REM sleep behavior disorder, also known as RBD. Now, Julie,
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: I am definitely not diagnosing you with RBD on this podcast. However,
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: dream and actment behavior in general, I can tell you
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: it has a few causes. Funny enough, probably the most
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: common cause of dream and actment behavior is SSRIs and
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Sarah's emergic medications. Also because again there's such an effect
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: on REM's sleep and the stability of REM sleep by
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: these meds that hallucinations, sleep paralysis, lack of paralysis during
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: dreams causing dream and actment behavior. These are all things
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: that kind of can become a little bit fuzzy in
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: the setting of serotinergic meds. So all that to say,
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: it sounds like she's describing that now. I don't know
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: if she takes antidepressants or it could be something else
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: causing it, because believe it or not, even sleep apnea
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: in some cases can cause a person to physically act
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: their dreams out anything that causes instability to sleep, which
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: sleep apnea is a breathing disorder during sleep that causes
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: respiratory interruptions to your sleep all throughout the night without
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: you realizing it. So it just creates really broken sleep
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: and poor quality sleep, and that's why people would sleep
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: apnea feel so tired during the day very often. But
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: anything that breaks your sleep all night, like sleep apnea,
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: creates such sleep state instability that complex phenomena like dream
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: and actment behaviors or even sleep walking can be precipitated
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: by sleep apnea, and in that case it should resolve
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: when the sleep apnms treat it, meaning that you stopped
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: acting your dreams out once you treated your sleep apnea.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: But all that to say, the real concern here is
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: injury because a lot of people who have dream and
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: act behavior, who have RBD, they'll punch their partner in
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: the face because they're having a nightmare and that they're
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: in a fight. They'll fall out of bed. I've had
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: people that went to the emergency room after cracking their
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: head and have to get stitched, or people who will
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: walk into the walls. More rarely do they actually exit
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: the bed, but usually lots of flailing and thrashing around
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: in bed, punching the nightstand, punching the headboard, fracturing fingers,
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: black eyes on girlfriends. I mean, we see all kinds
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: of stuff in the setting of dream and acted behavior.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: One other thing that I'll say about that is melatonin
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: is a question that comes up a lot in sleep, right,
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: like is melotonin good? Is it bad? What is it
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: good for? What does it help for? I take it
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: and it does nothing. I take it and it's amazing.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Melatonin as far as actual scientific use, because as a
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: sleep aid as a treatment for insomnia, there is no
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: good evidence to show that melatonin is an effective sleep aid,
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: which is why there's so much variability people's experience when
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: they take it.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: There's no evidence.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, not as a sleep aait. But the one thing,
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: the one very scientific and evidence based use of melatonin
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: is the way that your body is supposed to be
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: paralyzed during rapidi movement sleep when you're having dreams, so
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: that you don't act your dreams out. Melatonin actually helps
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: the brain function better in that sense of paralyzing the
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: muscles during sleep. It's kind of like our brain has
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: like a little bit of a light switch. As soon
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: as we go from whatever stage of sleep we're in
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: and we all of a sudden go into rem Literally,
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: our brain literally turns this light switch off and all
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: of our muscles just get shut down for that period
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: of time. Melatonin helps make that light switch work a
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: little bit better. So even some of the most violent
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: behaviors punging, kicking, screaming, yelling, hitting the partner, hitting the headboard,
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: the right dose of melatonin can actually keep all of
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: that under control.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: That is unbelievable.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: We are really getting some answer here today, you guys.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: I am I feel like I'm changing the world.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: World and Rama.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Darling, forget housewives. I'm just going to interview sleep doctors
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: for the rest but not okay, So speaking of sleep aids,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: that will lead me to my next question, which I have.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: You know, several people asked about the THHC situation. I'm
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: going to read you two questions. Number one from jewles
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: What are the safest and most effective sleep aids? Do
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: certain sleep aids cause dementia? Ambient works great for me,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: but I worry taking it regularly isn't healthy long term?
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Are sleep gummies with THHC a good option? And then
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Alex asks is THHC beneficial or harmful for quality of sleep?
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: A lot of good questions there, so as far as
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: the sleeping pills and the ambient question, you know, it's
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: one of those things where we have about eight medications
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: that have specific indication for the treatment of insomnia. Technically
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: there's more than that, but in terms of clinical practice
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: and standard of care and the way that we prescribe
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: meds these days, as sleep doctors, we're really selecting mainly
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: from eight evidence based sleep aids now Ambient and medications
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: like it. That represents three of those eight medications, those
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: medications in particular being Ambient, Lunesta and Sonata, and those
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: are brand names, but those medications, because they're so similar
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: to traditional benzodiazepines like xanax and atavan and klonopin and
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: valium and medications like that, and because those medications have
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: been studied a little bit better long term and demonstrated
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: cognitive and memory issues with prolonged or with consistent use
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: for long periods of time, it's fair to assume that
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: because ambient and those types of sleeping pills are so
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: chemically similar to those meds, that it is a potential
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: risk for developing a problem like that, a neurocognitive issue. However,
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: those meds, the sleeping pills we're talking about, they have
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: not been studied long term, and there are plenty of
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: people that take them for thirty forty years and have
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: no issues at all. So it's kind of one of
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: those things. It's not really well known, it's not really
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: well studied. We'll still prescribe these meds. Thankfully, we have
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: newer sleeping pills that work on a very different part
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: of the brain now and we're thinking that it's probably
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: safer compared to those. But the concerning thing with sleeping
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: pills with Ambient and medications like that is the automatic behaviors.
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: So sleep walking and sleep eating, those are things that
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: we see sometimes as a side effect with medications like Ambient,
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: So that's a separate issue. But as far as the dementia,
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: again it's not really well known. These things haven't been
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: studied longitudinally, but it is fair to assume that the
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: risk exists just because of how similar these mens are
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: to meds that have been better studied.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: And before you answer the THHC question, when you say
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: that it works on another medications, other medications work on
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: different parts of the brain, what part of the brain
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: do you focus on or is it the entire thing?
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: When you are dealing with sleep stuff, that's my scientific question.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: I'm so intelligent.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: When you're dealing with your sleep stuff, what part of
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: the brain.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: Are you dealing with.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: Hills these meds, So when it comes to these are
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: essentially our armamentary and sleeping pills that we prescribed. You know,
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: it's really when it comes to choosing an agent, it's
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: really just targeting what the sleeper, what the sleep disturbances. So,
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: for example, if the person has difficulty with falling asleep
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: in the beginning of the night, and then once they're
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: asleep sleep is totally stable and uninterrupted, then you could
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: technically just give that person a short acting sleeping pill
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: to just nudge them over into sleep, and then it's
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: out of their system in a few hours and they're
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: sleeping all the way to the morning. But if it's
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: a problem with the person staying asleep, or both falling
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: asleep and staying asleep, then electing to use a more
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: medium to long acting medication that they can take in
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: the beginning of the night and cover them for the
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: full duration of the sleep period. That's really kind of
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: the only sort of thought process choosing a medication.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's drill down on the THCHC. What are your
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: thoughts on that.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: You know with the THHC in general, with cannabis, there's
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: all kinds of medical uses, obviously, but probably the biggest
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: limitation is once again the lack of data. There's really
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: not a lot of good, solid, strong evidence studying the
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: effect of cannabis on sleep and improvements in sleep or
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: improvements in insomnia. A lot of people do experience a
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: reduced latency to sleep onset or just easier time falling
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: asleep when they take something like cannabis, but there is
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: also the possibility there is some suggestion that relatively similar
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: to alcohol, chronic cannabis use may suppress rabidi movements sleep,
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: which we definitely know that about alcohol, which is part
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: of the reason we feel the way we do when
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: we drink a lot. Alcohol is a very potent suppressant
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: of REM sleep, which is a stage of sleep that
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: your brain really needs at nighttime. So when you drink
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: a lot of alcohol, you end up in the first
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: four or five hours of the night, while the alcohol
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: is really active in your system, you end up really
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: not getting much REM sleep, and then all of a sudden,
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: towards the end you get kind of a little bit
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: of a rebound effect. So it's just kind of very
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: discontinuous and not restorative sleep. Quality, which contributes to the
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: hangover and the alcohol feeling. But cannabis may again poorly studied,
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: but there is some suggestion anecdotally that it may have
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: a similar effect in suppressing rabbit eye movements sleep with
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: consistent chronic use.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Wow, so alcohol it affects the rapid eye movement, so
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: you don't go into that stage of sleep, So you're
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: stuck in the first stage.
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah here essentially, Yeah, how does that?
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Because the alcohol does what to your brain to make
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: you not go into a deeper sleep.
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: You know, alcohol is a is a neurotoxin in a
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: lot of ways. I mean, you know, you drink enough alcohol,
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: you can start having seizures. You drink enough alcohol, all
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: kinds of horrible things can happen. But definitely, as far
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: as just chemically, we know that alcohol has a very
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: potent effect on suppressing rem sleep. And interestingly, Wow, you
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: might hear from a lot of people who drink a
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: lot or who smoke a lot of weed, and then
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: they all of a sudden abruptly withdraw or abruptly stop
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: those things, and in the night following that abrupt cessation
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: of either one of those things, they start to get
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: just tons and tons of intense dreams, and essentially what
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: that represents is what we call a rem rebound when
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: somebody's had so much suppression of remsleep long term from
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: drinking or smoking, and then all of a sudden, the
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: brain kind of has this rebound effect where all this
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: rem starts to rush into our brains, which end up
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: resulting in the person having really vivid and sometimes intense
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: streams in those especially in those first few nights after
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: stopping the agent.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Wow, that is really interesting. You know, when I was
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: doing my sleep study and I was doing the daytime
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: naps because I was aware after it was over what
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: had happened with the naps and thinking about all the
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: naps I've taken in my life. If I lay down,
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: I will immediately feel like I'm starting to dream pretty quickly.
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: So what is that?
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Because if you're not really dreaming dreaming until you're an RAM,
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: and I'm not a RAM right away, why am I
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: starting to just have these dreams?
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: It's a great question. So in general, you'll hear a
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: lot of people who when they take naps during the
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: day that that's the time where they actually notice or
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: they're more able to recall dreaming really, it goes back
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: to when our brain is suppressed of REM sleep, whether
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: it's from alcohol we'd or if it's just from being
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: really sleep deprived and then therefore very REM deprived when
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: we try to recover the sleep, whether it's during a
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: daytime nap or a weekend after a week of sleeping
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: three four hours nightly for the last few nights, when
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: you try to actually recover the sleep lost, usually your
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: brain is hungriest for REM, so it will try to
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: go into REM first, or it will try to go
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: into REM a lot earlier than normal, just because of
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: the deprivation and the rebound effect of the missing or
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: deprived REM sleep. So it's not actually uncommon at all
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: to during daytime naps experience dreams and even those same
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: hallucinations we were talking about. A lot of times people
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: will notice those more so during daytime naps, just because
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: again the brain as hungry as for remen as soon
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: as you try to recover, it'll try to go in
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: there first.
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: But if I'm having the dreams right away, But I
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: wasn't detected having ari REM sleep when I was during
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: my sleep study, so I wasn't technically an RIM correct.
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: You're asking such good questions right now. So the question
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: you just asked highlights the limitations and issues with that
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: test that you did. Because again, when all of us
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: sleep nerds get together at these conferences and we're talking
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: about kind of the limited tools that we have to
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: assess and diagnose a lot of sleep disorders, I mean
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: that sleep study, aside from being obnoxiously long in duration,
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: it's so imperfect in a sense that I'm trying to
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: look for rapidi movements and I'm catching the person on
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: just one day, one day, hoping that I can see
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: this one finding of their eyes moving in a certain
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: way and their brain wave severe in a certain way. Now,
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: if a person is a extremely sleepy, chances are I
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: can get them to meet that criteria of eight minutes
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: or less because they're a very sleepy person. But I
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: have no guarantee even if I'm super suspicious that they
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: absolutely have an earcilepsy because they're having paralysis and hallucinations
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: every single night for the last several years. But the
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: chance that I get rapidie movements on that sleep study
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: is never guaranteed. So this is why once again, being
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: testing and this whole overall picture of separating these two conditions.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: It may just all be arbitrary and we're all talking
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: about one thing.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: Wow, I'm coming to the next convention. I swear I'm there.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: I'm setting up my drama Darling podcast. Okay, this is
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: from Diane. I have been using my seapath for over
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: a year now for moderate sleep apnea and former insomnia.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: I traveled up to your point. I traveled without it
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: recently and didn't sleep as well and felt groggy during
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: the day. My family will travel to Italy next year,
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: and I dread the thought of lugging my seapap from
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: place to place plus through customs. Do you have tips
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: for better sleep without it on a temporary basis or
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: should I just suck it up and deal with the
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: extra hassle.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Well, a lot of people travel with seapaps these days.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: In fact, most of the times when you get set
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: up on a seapap, it usually includes a travel bag
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: with it when you get it delivered, so that you
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: can kind of lug it around. And I go to
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: the airport all I travel a lot, and I see
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: the seapap bags at every single airport I go to.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: But the easiest answer and solution i'd give you is
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: buy a travel seedpap. Travel seapaps are like literally this big.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: They're so tiny they can fit in like your little handbag.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: Oh there's there's like a separate device for that. Oh
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: my gosh, cute. That's cute, and you can like bling
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: it out and stuff and like get it in a
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: little carrying case. I'm sure they have them.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: That's cool, all right.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: And then one other travel option is a lot of
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: people will actually get because seapap is one treatment for
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: sleep apnea. But another alternative treatment apart from seedpap is
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: the oral appliance for sleep apnea, and that's called a
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: mandibular Advancement device or an MAD. What it is is
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: a fancy looking mouthguard that it usually gets fitted by
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: a bio dentist. It's custom fitted to your teeth. It's
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: got a top and a bottom piece, and when you
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: put it in your mouth, what it does is it
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: moves your lower jaw slightly forward, and by moving your
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: jaw forward, then your tongue moves forward, and now your
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: airway kind of opens up a little bit. So a
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: seapap fixes sleep apnea because it blows his air through
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: your nose and it's the air pressure that keeps your
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: pipe open, whereas this mouthguard achieves that just by mechanically
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: moving your lower jaw forward and creating that opening. It
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: doesn't always. Yeah, it's a great alternative, and for many
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: people it works just as well as a seapap and
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: they don't need a seapap and they can just use
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: this and their sleep apne is treated. In fact, mild
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: and moderate cases of sleep apne aren't more likely to
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: have success with that compared to like really bad or
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: severe cases. But a lot of people will do that too.
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: They'll use their seapap at home and then get one
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: of those mouthguards and take that with them when they
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: go on trips. So that's another option.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, that's super interesting. I didn't know that that
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: was a thing. Some people mentioned that they've had sleep
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: studies done then nothing was detected, and then they have
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: to go back for multiple or and then they can't
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: because their insurance company won't cover a second one. Do
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: you have anything to speak on about regarding that.
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, So sleep studies in general and sleep services,
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: whether it's seat paps, tests, these things. Oftentimes insurance will
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: try to block these things for a multitude of reasons,
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: which is terrible. But I think that if you go
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: through a process like because a lot of people will
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: go through the process of getting tested for sleep apne
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: and things like that with their primary care doctor, which
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: is totally reasonable and good. But when it comes to
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: more complicated stuff or you know, you need to do
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: further testing or further evaluation, doing that kind of thing
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: with a sleep doctor can be helpful, just because we're
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: used to all of the insurance blocks and we kind
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: of know how to work around them and document things
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: a certain.
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: Way that totally makes sense.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: Definitely can help.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: Here's a menopause question. Why in menopause do I wake
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: up through the night? I'm on hormones but still have
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: yet to sleep well for a year, And then someone
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: else asked if HRT hormone replacement therapy can help for
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: sleeping during menopause.
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: You know, I have a lot of women that tell
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: me that once they started taking progesterone that that was
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: just their ultimate game changer. A lot of people take it,
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: specifically take progesterone and find it that has a little
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: bit of an anxiolytic property to it, meaning that it
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: helps with anxiety, it makes them relax a little bit,
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: can help them ease into sleep. So that is definitely
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: one thing that comes up in these conversations. But in
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: terms of just sleep disturbance and menopause, a couple of things.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: Number One, there's a bit of a spike in the
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: development of sleep apnea above the age of fifty four
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: were males or females, and given that menopause more commonly
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: occurs around that same time, menopause itself sometimes can also
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: increase the sort of conversion to sleep appening or the
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: development of sleep mappa.
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: Dding Wow, yes, believe it or not?
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: Those hormonal Oh sorry, gh.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I believe yeah, exactly what you're saying. I
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: was going to say something similar, which is that, boyd
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: you know, the change of life sure really just messes
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: you the age of you know, this is not fair.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: Interestingly, there was a study that came out several years
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: ago where they took like one hundred and fifty five
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: postmenopausal females and basically put them through cognitive behavioral therapy
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: for insomnia and then also compared that to tai chi
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: And what they found on this study was that CBTI
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: being the most effective treatment for insomnia had very very
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: similar results as the study arm that patients just completed
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: tai chi. Now does that mean that taichi is just
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: as effective as CBTI? I don't know. Obviously, there's a
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: lot you can interpret from a study like that, but
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: bottom line is things that can increase the threshold for
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: arousal from sleep, like yoga, meditation, taichi. We don't understand
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: a lot of the science to it, but it works,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: and there's data to show that these things can be
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: really beneficial to a lot of people, including that population.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: So that's just one other thing that is so cool.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: I love that.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: Do they have tai chi and yoga at the sleep
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: conventions that I'll be joining you on. How would somebody
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: see a sleep doctor like yourself? Would they could they
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: go directly to you if they've got like a PPO
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: or could I mean or would they go to their
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: primary and get a referral? How would that work?
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Definitely, just like with any other doctor, as long
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: as your insurance doesn't require that you have a referral,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: you can absolutely just schedule an appointment or consultation with
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: a sleep physician at your local academic center. Sleep is
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: one of those things where you know, depending on where
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: you are in the world, if you're in a very
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: rural area, you may not necessarily have a sleep dot
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: down the street that you could go to. But usually
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: academic centers almost always have a sleep department or a
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: sleep division where you can see sleep physicians. And not
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: to mention, a lot of us in our specialty, a
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: lot of us do virtual or telemedicine as we call it.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: So these days getting access or having access to a
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: sleep physician is actually a lot better compared to the
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: way it was before.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: Oh truly, yes.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: I went to my primary and I was finally like,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: I just something's wrong, and she just said, you know, here,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: go to the pulmonary branch of this office and you
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: will find a sleep doctor over there.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: And that was you.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: So it was very easy for me to do that.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: I'm very grateful that it was just such a simple way,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: and it really made me go, I wish I would
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: have just done this a long time ago.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: It was so easy to do. You know, I'm just.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: Going to ask you, is there anything that you would
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: like to share with the drama Darling audience as a
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: sleep doctor.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah? You know, one thing that I always like to
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: say is that a lot of people ask, Okay, what
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: should I do about this? And what should I do
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: about that? And what's the best sleep habit or what's
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: the best nighttime routine? And honestly, I always say the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: same thing, which is the most important sleep habit that
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: you need to keep in mind is to just sleep.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: Sleep when your body is asking for it. We live
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: in a society and we live in a time where
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: we're sleep depriving ourselves. So we're always trying to push
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: ourselves to the latest time that we can stay up
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: and then curtailing our mornings, you know, the end of
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: our sleep period by waking up early in the morning.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: We're a chronically insufficient population. And not to mention, there's
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: a lot of mental and behavioral and cognitive factors that
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: interfere with sleep at nighttime, everything from stress, anxiety, depression,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: which these days, in the crazy world we live in,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: definitely a lot of things come up at nighttime that
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: interfere with people's ability to sleep. So I think the
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: most important thing is when your body is asking for sleep,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: listen to it. If it's not asking for sleep, then
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: don't stress about it, because the last thing you want
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: to do is have your mind get in the way
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: of what your body is wanting to do. Naturally.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: Would you say that somebody who gets maybe four to
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: six hours a night doesn't feel like they need any more.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: Is that okay?
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: It's is it okay? Yeah? I think it's okay as
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: long as the person is getting by and functioning. I mean,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't encourage somebody to cut or curtail or cut
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: their sleep, you know, just because they feel okay when
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: they wake up, Because we know that your brain and
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: body do require a certain amount of sleep, and of
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: course you're going to feel okay if you cut that
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: by an hour or two. But I would encourage that
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: person to just, once again, going back to what I said,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: listen to their body and sleep the full amount that
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: their body is asking for, because anybody can wake up
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: early and say I'm good, But that's sleep deprivation, okay,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: And truly we're all guilty of.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I mean eight hours is really what we're
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: aiming towards, right, is it?
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: Eight? So I'm glad this came up. So there's really
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: no magic number in terms of hours, because everybody's sleep
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: requirement is unique and different. Some people require six and
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: when we say require, that means that they're not able
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: to sleep more than that. There's a big, big, big
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: thing to differentiate is what is a person who just
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: requires less sleep, Like they just need their six hours,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: and as long as they get their six hours, they
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: can't sleep anymore and they feel totally rested when they
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: wake up and they're good during the daytime. That's very
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: different from a person who requires seven hours and sleeps
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: six hours, or requires eight hours and sleep six hours.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: Six hours still is a good amount of sleep, but
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: that person's brain is asking for seven or eight, in
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: which case I would encourage that person to sleep the
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: full duration of their sleep. And the only way to
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: really know what your natural individual brain sleep requirement is is,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: first of all, this is very unrealistic, but give yourself
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: a good like ten to fourteen nights of sleeping, totally
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: ad lib sleeping as much as you can until you
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: can't sleep anymore, and then get up, and then just
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: do that for a period of time and you'll get
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: an idea what your body's natural sleep requirement is in
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: that setting, which, of course, like they said, it's not released.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: That's very cool. Yeah, take it too week vacation. Figure
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: it out so hard about that? You know what I
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: was just realizing is that Leonardo DiCaprio was in one
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: of the greatest dream movies of all time, Inception. Oh
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: that's right, and you worked on the film Shutter Island.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: I wonder if you would have stayed in the game
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: just a little bit longer, if you would have worked
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: on Inception.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: What do you think of that movie?
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: I love it, you know, I haven't seen it in
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: such a long time. I don't even really remember that
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: movie too. I remember loving that movie, but I need
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: to go back and watch it again to remind myself that.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hadn't either. And then I was on a
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: flight recently within the last couple of years, and I
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: was like, you know what, I'm want to watch this
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: movie again.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: And it really holds up. It's so good.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe you can marry the two things together your
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: film career and you're sleep medicine and you can write
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: the next great sleep dream movie that will rival Inception,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: or team up with Leo again and do Inception two.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: Because it was so good. They should do it again.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: You should help, We should do this. We should co
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: screen ride.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: That sounds good sounds good, Doctor Kashani, I am so
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: grateful that you took time to do this, and I
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: just feel so enlightened. I think the darlings will feel
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: very enlightened. And I would like to ask you to
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: share where people can find you social media or how
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: they can reach you.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: Definitely, so you can find me on Instagram, I'm at
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: Sam Kashawi, MD, and I'm also on LinkedIn and I
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: practice here at UCLA in Los Angeles. I practice out
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: of the Santa Monica location in UCLA. But like I said,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: I do see patients over video telemedicine. In person, I
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  Speaker 3: see patients of all ages for all sleep related issues.
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  Speaker 3: So those are some ways you can find me.
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  Speaker 4: That's great. Do you see kids? Do you ever get
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  Speaker 4: kids in there?
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  Speaker 3: Quite frequently? Yes, absolutely, thankfully. Most of the time. In kids,
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  Speaker 3: it is a behavioral issue, like the parents have a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of difficult time setting limits, or maybe a
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  Speaker 3: baby who needed to be sleep trained a few years
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  Speaker 3: ago just never got sleep trained and it's been an
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  Speaker 3: ongoing problem. So well. More often pediatric sleep issues are
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  Speaker 3: like that, but we still have a lot of pediatric
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  Speaker 3: sleep apnea, and not to mention narcolepsy very commonly develops
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  Speaker 3: in the early teens or in the second decade of
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  Speaker 3: life in many cases. So a lot of times we'll
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  Speaker 3: see teenagers who may have been sleeping totally normally and
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  Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, at fourteen, they started sleeping
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  Speaker 3: for twelve hours and falling asleep in class all the time,
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  Speaker 3: despite having ten hours sleep at night time. So that's
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  Speaker 3: something that we'll see in pediatric sleep as well.
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  Speaker 2: I might have to have you come back and talk
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  Speaker 2: about pediatric sleep stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate it, and
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  Speaker 4: I know it's great drama right well, thank you, talk to.
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  Speaker 2: You soon forward.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks again.
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  Speaker 1: Drama Darling, Drama Darling.