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We made you wait for this one!  Why you may have trouble sleeping as you age and what you can do about. 

Do you happen to know what the "on-off" switch for sleep is in your brain?  We did not.  But now we do.  Listen now to learn more about your sleep and how to make it better!

As you know in our last episode we interviewed a young researcher Mark Czeisler who was part of the COPE Initiative dealing with young adults and COVID.  If you missed this episode, here is a link.

While doing research on Mark we realized that he  has significant experience in the study of sleep! We got excited.  We know very few people our age who do not have some sleep issues!  (his credentials are below)

So, although this has very little to do with building healthy relationships with our young adult children, we thought this would be a great benefit to our listeners. 

We talk about:

• Why we are waking up in the middle of the night and not able to fall back to sleep
• The myth of needing less sleep as we age
• The science behind sleep
• What heredity might have to do with sleep
• His father's role as the Director of the Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School and how that translate to their family's sleep habits!
• The role of Melatonin and how we are all using it completely wrong!
• Sleep meds to consider or not
• Do sleep studies or doctors make a difference and when might you need one
• Tips for changing it all - and a lot of it has to do with that darn "blue light"

And the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. 

Mark’s father, Charles Czeisler, PHD MD, is a Professor of Sleep Medicine, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders in the Departments of Medicine and Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Thanks so much to Connie Gorant Fisher, our audio engineer.

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