Hi there, it's Matt here and welcome back once again to the show.

Now in the next several episodes we're going to be talking all about the most common

sleep disorder which is insomnia. Now many of you have asked me to speak about the

science behind different sleep disorders and we will will continue to do

that in this podcast and that will include things such as the sleep disorder

sleep apnea as well as something called restless leg syndrome.

But for the next several episodes, it's going to be all about insomnia. So what is the objective of this mini-series? Well first let me tell you

what it is not. I'm not a medical doctor, I'm not a clinician. So these episodes are not designed to be a guide to diagnosing your own insomnia,

nor designed to even offer any medical or clinical advice at all.

Now, don't worry, we will still discuss how insomnia is diagnosed, and we'll still discuss how different clinicians may treat

insomnia using different methods. But I just want to give you that information

because I think it's important to state up front. I also feel

as though it would not be responsible in my public communication duties to avoid those

things for you as well.

I think what I'm trying to say is that when we discuss these things here,

they will be describing a set of general descriptions of how people think about insomnia treatment.

And that's very different to me providing you prescriptive information or advice, and that wouldn't be appropriate.

So with all of that said, what is the overall objective of this mini-series on Insomnia?

Well, I'm really excited to actually cover of this miniseries on insomnia.

Well, I'm really excited to actually cover six specific topics,

one topic per episode, and here's what we'll discuss.

First, we're going to go over what insomnia is and also what

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