Moment 50 - The Most Common Misconceptions About Sleep: Stephanie Romiszewski

Uh You're an expert in this field, so you must as you kinda spoke to there, you must get pretty I can feel it when you're speaking, get pretty pissed off when you see unhelpful information um being pushed on, I don't know, social media or online or through books. These lot sort of simplified narratives. What are some of the most um common misconceptions that you speak to your patients about?

You s mentioned one there about this like eight hours of sleep being the optimal. Yeah. And even when I Um I'm speaking to a sleep therapy expert today. Um I'd say the vast majority, or at least the medium question was uh

Do I need to get exactly seven or eight hours sleep? Every single night. Yeah. Um yeah, so that is definitely the biggest one we get. Um you do not that perfection is the enemy of the good. Have you ever heard that term? Because at the end of the day it's true. Yes, your body loves consistency and regulation, but that does not mean you have to get eight hours of sleep every night. So Think about it differently. Think about it over a month, for example. We love this idea of the way the way we look at time is slightly different to the way your body looks at time. And over a month, you might actually be all right. So maybe one night you get six and a half hours, the next night you get seven and a half, and then the next night you might get slightly different. As long as it's fairly consistent and maybe eighty percent of the time you're doing fairly well and you're you're giving yourself the right opportunity seat, that's okay. Your body's gonna do

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