768: Sleep for Success: Dr. Andrea Mastumura

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

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4.9 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In this episode of Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Kay Durairaj talks with sleep medicine specialist Dr. Andrea Matsumura about the deep connection between sleep and overall health. They discuss the effects of sleep deprivation, the role of melatonin in regulating our circadian rhythm, and how caffeine disrupts restorative sleep. Dr. Matsumura also explains the science behind sleep apnea, the history of the CPAP machine, and how proper sleep impacts more than you think!

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0:00.0	Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. Kay, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and today's
0:21.5	podcast is a terrific one, something that impacts all of us women. I've been feeling it, but we're
0:26.8	going to learn about sleep. And we're interviewing Dr. Andrea Matsumura. She is also known as the
0:33.3	sleep goddess. And she's the board certified sleep medicine and internal medicine physician.
0:38.9	She is nationally recognized for her studies and her expertise in sleep and menopause.
0:44.7	So she's creator of the dream sleep method and the sleep goddess archetype.
0:49.2	And then everything we need to know about nurturing and aligning ourselves for better sleep and hormone
0:56.0	balance. That's what we're going to learn today. Welcome to the podcast, Dr. Montsemura.
1:00.9	Thank you, Dr. Kay, for having me. I'm excited to be here. Yeah, so you've spent over a decade in
1:06.7	primary care and doing intensivist medicine and then you did sleep medicine fellowship and now
1:12.7	you're director at cascadia health and you're doing working with the portland menopause collective
1:18.3	so i'm super excited you're a task force in sleep is good medicine campaign tell me what's your
1:24.7	passion about sleep what's missing in our lives?
1:28.8	Yeah, definitely.
1:34.8	Well, so as an internist, the first 13 years of my practice as an internal medicine doc, I saw that people were really struggling with sleep.
1:38.4	And it was kind of one of those end of the visit type of concerns.
1:48.2	And what I realize is that so many people are affected by lack of sleep and it and it's what actually controls all of the other chronic medical conditions.
1:58.5	And then when I went back and did a fellowship in sleep medicine, I quickly became
2:05.1	the women's sleep health expert in my part of the country in the Northwest. And I started
2:14.1	doing a lot of presentations. And then I also really had nothing but women in my practice and started to see this connection
2:24.0	between hormonal shifts and changes in sleep and just low quality of life because of that.
2:31.7	So I made it my mission to really focus on women's health and sleep.
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