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