Sound Sleep Guru, Bellevue, WA Videos

🌚Many of you guessed close but the correct answer for this person’s occupation is Emergency Room Physician. They have what I consider to be a pretty balanced and healthy adaptation to their schedule and while there is irregularity to the hours, the schedule repeats itself regularly and the person adapts but utilizing naps and maintaining otherwise excellent sleep health in all domains except for the two nights of irregularity. We also have to consider they love this work and many jobs have some risk associated with them. For instance, working outdoors all day carries skin cancer risk. It’s my job to help my patients mitigate their risks, not become different people. Do you agree?

❌Sleep Lies To Stop Believing    -Hi, I’m Meredith Broderick, a triple board certified sleep neurologist and I’m here to debunk this myth!    ❌Sleep is your superpower❌    -There’s a common motto among sleep experts to promote sleep in a way that sounds like a marketing strategy to me. TBH, sleep is a physiological inconvenience to many of my patients. If sleep is their superpower, why wouldn’t everyone be using it?   🎧Listen as I talk about our real superpower, the ability to delay our need for sleep to survive or achieve. Becoming your best self involves learning how to strategically balance your innate need for sleep and using your wakefulness superpower for the greatest gains and to live by your values.👆    👩🏻‍⚕️If you have any questions about sleep, brain health, wellness, or neurology, let me know in the comments👇    #sleepdoctor #sleepMD #sleepexpert #sleepspecialist #sleepapnea #insomnia #sleepeducation

☀️ Sleep Tip Sunday    -Healthy sunlight exposure is important for healthy sleep, immune function, and vitamin D production.     -However, it is imperative to balance our need for sunlight with skin cancer risk reduction.     -Here are two resources to consider when trying to calibrate and balance these factors for your situation. This paper is publically available and it cites the Sunsmart app to help you avoid days when the UV index is highest.     -You need to consider your:    1️⃣ Skin cancer risk    2️⃣ Skin type    3️⃣Geographically where you live.     👩🏻‍⚕️What are your thoughts on healthy sunlight exposure? Let’s discuss in the comments👇    #lighttherapy #circadianrhythm #sleepdoctor #sleepexpert #sleephealth #wellnesscoach #sleepcoach #skincare #sunscreen #sunscreenspf50

😴Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a progressive neurological disease. That is why, treating the structural or airway aspects early in the course of the disease makes the biggest impact. My mentor at Stanford, Dr. Christian Guilleminault was passionate about recognizing the early stages of this disease process in children and intervening early before blunted arousal thresholds occur, before hypertension occurs, before atrial fibrillation occurs as a downstream effect - partnering with orthodontists and surgeons is critical. Even now, I find parents are reluctant to have their child evaluated and treated even we point to data like an increased rusk of mental health problems in the teen years. Listen here as I explain one aspect of how the brain is involved in the pathological processes we see in OSA. I also share a review article I wrote about this topic with Dr. Guilleminault as my mentor and editor of the article in 2008 when I was a fellow at Stanford Sleep Medicine.       👇What questions do you have about OSA as a neurological disorder?👇      #sleepdoctor #sleepapnea #snoringspouse #sleepapnea #cpap #cpapmachine #cpapmask #sleepscience

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💫Sleep Tip Sunday    -One of the main pillars of sleep health is subjective perception of sleep. How we wake up in the morning carries a lot of weigh in this factor. Listen to this clip as I explain.     👇Let’s discuss in the comments👇    #sleepdoctor #sleepexpert #sleeptip #sleeptips #sleeptracking #sleephealth #wellnesscoach #sleepcoach

❌Sleep Lies To Stop Believing    -Hi, I’m Meredith Broderick, a triple board certified sleep neurologist and I’m here to debunk this myth!    ❌Caffeine doesn’t impact my sleep❌    -I’ve heard people say they can consume caffeine and fall right to sleep and then conclude that means it doesn’t have an impact on sleep.     🎧Listen as I debunk this myth about caffeine and sleep👆    👩🏻‍⚕️If you have any questions about sleep, brain health, wellness, or neurology, let me know in the comments👇    #sleepdoctor #sleepMD #sleepexpert #sleepspecialist #sleephealth #sleepcoach #sleephygiene #womeninmedicine #womenshealth

✨Highlights from SLEEP 2024✨Let’s just say I’m feeling pretty bullish on GLP-1 agonists. I think these are a breakthrough similar to the statins and in 10-20 years a large percentage of people will be on one unless we get the food industry and obesity problem solved another way. Listen as I explain why this is relevant to me as a sleep neurologist. #sleep2024 #sleepdoctor #sleepexpert #obesitymedicine #glp1agonists

🔑The Key to Cultivating Sleep Health    -Watch this video to hear one of the major takeaways from a recent workshop I led.     -And let me know in the comments if you’d like me to share more pearls from the workshop.     #sleephealer #sleeptips #mindsethacks #wellnesscoach #sleephealth #sleephygiene #sleephacks #biohackinglife

🦵🏻Medical Management of RLS     ‼️Educational use only. Consult with your physician for accurate diagnosis, recommendations, and medication recommendations.     👩🏻‍⚕️After we feel confident about the diagnosis and have a handle on other medial comorbities, other sleep disorders and medications we will consider medications.    -First we always want to assess iron stores/status.    -The we will consider the gabapentinoid meds gabapentin, pregabalin, and gabapentin encabril.    -non-ergot dopamine agonist are also an important option with many variables to consider.     -Opiods are also considered if refractory to the other options.     📽️In this video I outline some of the pitfalls and important considerations to these medical managements!    -Other adjunctive treatments like stretching, exercise, hot baths can also be helpful.     👇What else would you add?    #sleep2024 #sleepexpert #sleepspecialist #sleepdoctor #restlesslegs #restlesslegssyndrome

🦵🏻Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)    -By popular demand here is the first in a series of videos on RLS.    -First things first what is RLS? It is a clinical diagnosis, meaning it is primarily based on patient’s symptoms not made on a sleep study report.     -RLS can be surprisingly difficult to distinguish from a few other conditions or have overlap.    👂Listen to this video as I describe how we identify RLS and the factors we consider on an initial evaluation. I’ll be back with another video about management.     👩🏻‍⚕️Let me know if you have questions about RLS in the comments👇      #sleep2024 #sleepexpert #sleepdoctor #sleepscience #restlesslegs #restlesslegsyndrome #restless

👩🏻‍⚕️Sleep Medicine Case Files ~ Facial Aesthetics    -A story of a lifelong sleep disorder is told in the craniofacial development of the face. I wanted to prompt those of you in aesthetics to consider your obligation to identify and diagnose one of the most lifelong risk factors for CV risk in your patients.     -Listen to this case with these key takeaway messages:    ✅Main patients are undiagnosed despite having multiple encounters with healthcare providers, neglecting a huge factor for quality of life and long term health and longevity.     ✅Thin women are often missed or diagnosed instead with ADHD or depression.     ✅Even a GOLD standard test like PSG being administered by a nationally known expert can fail to diagnose and successfully treat patients.     ✅Treating sleep disorders is a n adventure,  not a destination.     ✅40% of patients with PCOS have obstructive sleep apnea.     ✅In sleep medicine, we often need to test our patients more than once to reveal the appropriate diagnosis and treatment.     ✅No number of supplements or wearables will treat a sleep disorders but only shows how much the patient is struggling as evidenced by the time and resources they are dedicated to fixing the problem.     👩🏻‍⚕️What are your thoughts on this case?    #sleepdoctor  #facialaesthetics #jawsurgeryrecovery #sleepapnea #sleepapneatreatment #sleepmedicine #facialplasticsurgery #facialplastics #sleephealth

🦷Dentists Save Lives    -In the last few years, I have seen dentists save lives by appropriately identifying patients at a high risk for obstructive sleep apnea.     -Sometimes the severity is such, I know the patient would be dealing with a heart attack or stroke before age 50. Not to mention the decreased quality of life from daytime sleepiness. Shout out to Molly McIntosh at Spektor Dental for helping get that patient screened and treated.     -Do you know the oral signs of obstructive sleep apnea?     🦷    🦷    🦷    #dentalsleepmedicine #sleepdoctor #airway #airwaymanagement #dentist #dentalclinic #dentalhealtheducation #sleepeducation #sleepscience