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What are the most popular questions
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people come to you with as a sleep
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doctor?
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>> There's three biggies. Number one is,
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"What do I do if I fall asleep, okay,
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and I wake up in the middle of the night
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and I can't fall back asleep?"
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>> And you can help people with that.
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>> Absolutely. The second question is,
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"What pillow should I buy?" And I'm
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going to walk you through which pillows
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make sense for which people. And then
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another one that people ask me all the
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time is what's the best time to have
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sex? And let me explain why. So, I've
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been an actively practicing sleep
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specialist for 26 years. I take care of
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people's sleep problems like apnea,
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insomnia, and I'm really interested in
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the things that you might be doing right
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now that are messing up your sleep that
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are easy to fix. So, for example, most
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people don't know that they have a
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genetic sleep code inside them called
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their chronoype, which decides when your
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brain releases things like melatonin,
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cortisol, adrenaline, and dopamine. And
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so, I can show you based on your
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chronoype when it's bedtime, but also
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the perfect time of day to do almost any
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activity, including the perfect time to
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have coffee and alcohol. Crazy. There's
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even data to show that your ability to
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understand complicated concepts improves
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when you're more in line with your
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chronoype. Now, there are three known
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chronotypes, but what I'm famous for is
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discovering a fourth one, which I think
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might be you. So, we're going to talk a
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lot about that. We're also going to talk
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about dreams, because dreams can tell
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you things about yourself that you may
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not want to know. And then there's how
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to fix jet lag, whether you should sleep
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with a TV on, the truth about melatonin
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supplementation, and my favorite way to
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get magnesium. Before we get into all of
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that, shall we go and look at the best
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possible sleep position?
