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Happy Enemies of Sleep

March 29, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Cellphones, televisions, pads, monitors, are not generally considered unwitting enemies of sleep,  yet often are.   We have great fun with electronic lights,  but we are not built for light at night. At night we are designed to sleep. A recent study from Kenneth Wright’s group at the University of Colorado highlights for preschoolers what has long been […]

Returning to Sleep

February 28, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

People complain to me ceaselessly – they can’t get back to sleep.  Yet returning to sleep engages the same tools that help you fall asleep. If sleep is as necessary to life as food, why is returning to sleep so difficult?  It seems many of us have forgotten how to rest. To fall asleep most […]

Secrets of Jet Lag (9/23/13)

September 23, 2013 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Aging in Flight  You fly business class from LA to Beijing, sacrificing a college tuition payment for sixteen inches of leg room.  Whisked to your hotel room you fall into bed and repeat attempted slumber. When you wake you feel thirty years older.  Then you open the blinds, look out on the smog, and drop […]

Gimme the Pill! Seductions of Supplements (8/22/12)

August 22, 2012 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Every Work Day Just about every day I’m in the office patients come to me clutching a new pill bottle.  Inside will be tablets or capsules purportedly containing anywhere from one to 50 or more ingredients. What Do People Want To Know? Will these pills work to cure their sleep problems/Crohn’s disease/heart disease/cancer/irritable bowel syndrome/memory […]

Will Lazy Cakes come back from the dead? (10/21/11)

October 21, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Tough Times for Vampires It’s been difficult recently for vampires. October 9th was World Vampire Day.  Only two days following this celebratory occasion,  Toronto vampires filming the latest “Resident Evil” were struck by a construction accident, with multiple injuries and broken bones. Yet we all know that are vampires are very resilient. One potential vampire […]

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