I can say, according to your genetics, in about 15 years, you’ve got a 45 percent chance of getting sleep apnea. If you have your 23 and Me or your data, I can take that data and run it through an algorithm looking at 74 different sleep markers, and I can predict with a fair level of certainty what your sleep is going to look like in the future. Once we can get those off the table, then we move into formal sleep coaching. If they have any levels of deficiency on those, that’s the first level of supplementation. I’m looking for deficiencies like vitamin D, magnesium, and iron. I review all of your medical history and then we do bloodwork, if necessary. If you’re a super high-end client, we do a 90-minute interview. Give me some examples of how you might solve a sleep issue? It’s more like slowly pulling your foot off the gas and slowly putting your foot on the brake. People think all the time, sleep is an on-off switch. Then throw in restless leg syndrome, an iron or a dopamine issue where the patient’s legs feel creepy and crawly only when they lie or sit down, which is roughly 30 percent. Roughly a third of the population has difficulty falling asleep two to three times a week, with 10 percent of it being chronic. Insomnia, however, is the most popular disorder by far. It’s the most easily reimbursable of all of the things that are out there. Most sleep specialists are apnea doctors. When I was in formal practice, I worked almost exclusively with snoring and sleep apnea. To be fair, there’s plenty of people that are good sleepers who would never need my help, but they have a family member or a child or somebody that’s suffering. Everybody has some type of issue at some time in their life with sleep. Sleep is one of those unique scenarios that cuts across every single demographic. What kind of patients do you have? Does everyone have issues with sleeping?
Everything I do is evidence-based and my patients, they really do better. Almost everybody that I see, I contact their physician. However, I work with my client’s doctors. That said, I’m a Ph.D., not an MD, so I cannot prescribe. It could be working or spending more time with family. That gives them more time to do whatever activity it is that they want to do. I take celebrities, athletes, and politicians, and I find them more time in their day and optimize their sleep at night. Historically, I used to see 25 to 30 patients a day and look at sleep studies at night.
What does your practice entail and what makes you unique?
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