Can't Sleep? UCSF's Aric Prather Has a Prescription

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🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Roughly 70 million Americans have a chronic sleep disorder, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and lack of sleep is associated with chronic disease, mental illness andpoor quality of life. So, what can we do to help ourselves? We talk with UCSF sleep researcher Aric A. Prather about how to calm our ruminating minds and other strategies to help us get a goodnight's rest. His new book is "The Sleep Prescription: Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest." Guests: Aric Prather, professor of psychiatry and behavioral Sciences, UCSF - His new book is "The Sleep Prescription: Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.3	Coming up on forum, have you ever tried putting your head in the freezer?
1:12.5	Or setting aside time in your schedule to worry? Those are some of the techniques UCSF sleep scientist Eric Prather recommends
1:18.7	you try if you've been struggling to get a good night's rest. We'll learn more about why we can't
1:23.7	fall asleep or stay asleep and what we can do. Prather's new book is called The Sleep Prescription,
1:29.5	and we want to hear from you, what's got you up at night, and what helps you doze off?
1:33.9	Email us at forum at kQED.org, and we'll talk about it. This is Forum. I'm Ariana Prail in Ferm. The midterm elections, the approaching holidays,
1:55.9	or just everyday family, work, and school stresses, there's a lot to keep us up at night.
2:01.4	So maybe it's not surprising that roughly 70 million Americans have chronic sleep disorders,
2:06.7	which can contribute to a range of health problems and damage our quality of life and sense of well-being.
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