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Purpose Driven Sleep

July 27, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Does sleep have a purpose? Certainly. Sleep is like food. Without sleep, animals die.  During sleep we reorganize our brains, consolidate memories, grow skin, rejigger hormones, rebuild tissues.  In sleep we continuously remake the internal information that makes us us. But does having a purpose make for better sleep? Purpose Driven Sleep Meaning matters.  If people have a sense of […]

How to Treat Insomnia Part II (Including When You’re Older)

February 2, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Insomnia afflicts the majority  of Americans over 65. It makes many people miserable, but can be aided or even erased by relatively simple techniques. Insomnia’s causes are many and complex, including changes in body clocks, types of illnesses, effects of medications, and the process of aging itself (see part I.) Fortunately, most treatments of insomnia, […]

Why Can’t Older Folks Sleep? (Part I)

January 26, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Sleep and insomnia increase with age.  Most studies find the inability to get proper rest affects the majority of folks past the age of 65 (Lots of younger people can’t sleep, either.) There are dozens of known reasons people can’t sleep.  Here’s some of the most prominent. Aging Changes Sleep Take a newborn.  Many neonates will […]

What Happened to Sleep Medicine?

June 25, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Terminal Decline? Academic and clinical fields have their booms and busts just like economies. Sleep Medicine is no exception.  A field that took off from the 1990s until the 2010s is now in palpable decline.  This year a total of 112 sleep fellowships were filled in the nationwide medical match. America is presently training one potentially certifiable […]

Saving Sleep Medicine

June 27, 2015 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Sleep medicine appears in decline.  Sleep centers and laboratories are closing at record rates. Yet how can sleep medicine be dying when the population suffers so much from insomnia and sleep apnea, while the public increasingly recognizes sleep as critical to happiness, performance, and preventing most major medical illnesses? The answer: insurance reimbursement.  After Colin Sullivan […]

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