How easily do you fall asleep? If you're like most of us, sometimes sleep overcomes you and sometimes you actually have to pursue sleep, just to "catch" a few good hours.  Today Drs. Lemanne and Gordon talk about the role sleep plays in their work with patients, addressing cognitive, metabolic, and cancer-related issues.

Links In this Episode

1.  Heart Disease more risky for women than breast cancer.

2.  Breast cancer usually not fatal.

3.  Breast cancer linked to disrupted circadian rhythm.

4.  Denmark compensates for breast cancer after night shift work.

5.  Artificial (neon & otherwise) light at night increases risk breast cancer.

6.  Healthy sleep stages help brain health.

7.  Glymphatic system cleans brain during sleep.

8.  Autophagy also part of the daily brain-cleaning during sleep.

9.  Older adults still add new brain cells.

10.  A week camping restores optimal sleep cycles.

11.  Breast cancer is seasonal

12.  Meal Timing Regulates the Human Circadian System.

13.  Night Eating Associated w/obesity and binge eating disorder.

14.  Relationship between body temperature & sleep.

15.  Set a wake-up time to re-train sleep habits.

16.  Sleep restriction a therapy for insomnia.

17.  Melatonin safety & utility in cancer treatment.
 
18.  Including: melatonin dosing does not down-regulate production and the pineal response to melatonin.

19.  Lack of evidence for antihistamines' harming cognition.

20.  Believing that you slept poorly affects your performance!

Dawn Lemanne, MD
Oregon Integrative Oncology
Leave no stone unturned.

Deborah Gordon, MD
Northwest Wellness and Memory Center
Building Healthy Brains