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Notes on: The Sleep Solution, by W. Chris Winter.
Prologue.
Helping a team plan out the best time to travel during a long road trip. Or helping an athlete and his family adjsut to a new baby in the house. |N: Status! This book is meant to be read like a sweeping novel. It is not a reference book. I do not want you to skip ahead to the part of the book that you think is most important for you. It’s all important! Think of it as a complete process for understanding and overhauling both your sleep and the way you think about sleep. If you do it my way, you are going to finish this book with a newfound sense of what it means to have healthy sleep.
An Introduction to Sleep Medicine.
Sleep conditions are highly tratable. Tom Roth (2007): Insomnia may accept as many as 1/3 of our population at any given time. Restless leg syndrome? Everyone in medical school studies everything. REM behavior disorder: The normal paralysis that accompanies dreaming is impaired. According to researcher Raymond Rosen, most physicians have received less than two hours of training about the entire field of sleep in their four years of medical education.
Given that our psychiatry lecture about men who fantasize about their wives’ footwear lasted thirty minutes, you can see just how dramatically underrepresented the whole of sleep medicine was in our curriculum.
Chapter 1: What is Sleep Good For? Absolutely Everything!
There is almost no disease or organ system in which you cannot find some kind of relationship Sleep as one of the foundational processes within your body that you can actually change.
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