The Sleep Scientist (NEW RESEARCH): Sleeping Patterns Can Predict Future Diseases! Sleep Deprivation Is A Silent Killer! The Painful Trick To Fix Poor Sleep - Dr Guy Leschziner
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I've seen patients cooking a meal in their sleep, who driven in their sleep, committed crimes in their sleep. So what is the story of Kenneth Park? He drove several miles to his in laws' house, bludgeoned his mother in law to death, and then tried to kill his father in law, but it was deemed he was sweetwater and he was actually acquitted. It's crazy. Dr. Guy Lesschener is a leading neurologist and sleep physician at one of Europe's largest sleep clinics. And with over 25,000 studies of over 100,000 patients, his pioneering research in sleep medicine has provided the answers we need to improve our sleep. So many people are chronically sleep deprived. Thirty percent will experience insomnia, and eighty percent of people in the UK don't know that they've got sleep apnea. This is the problem. But the majority can be helped. So let's get into that. Is there such a thing as healthy sleep?
Somewhere between seven and eight and a half hours a night. Now, what's difficult to explain is why your mortality goes up if you're sleeping more than eight and a half hours. Is there a link between sleep deprivation and weight gain increases? So even a single night of sleep deprivation can result in a dramatic increase in calorie intake, and that's because Insomniac. There are very effective treatments for insomnia, for example. If you we know that helps about 80% of individuals. Are you a fan of sleep tablets? As a general rule no, because there are many non-drug based techniques. What are these techniques to improve our sleep? The gold standard treatment now is Going. Why do we dream? That's a really important question. The honest answer is
Should I say doctor guy? What is it that Is at the very sort of heart of your personal curiosity. Because as I look at your work and how what you've committed your career to, there seems to be a bit of a through line. as to sort of the subject matters that have captured you.
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