Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast.

I'm your host, Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.

My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the health and wellness industry each week and impact over a million lives.

This is the start of a new Thursday series called The Midlife Minute that is really designed to address listeners questions in a little bit longer

length of time and or deeper dive into topics. Ideally, we're going to keep these podcasts under

20 minutes. Occasionally, we may go over to 30, but I'm trying to reinforce some key concepts and ensure that I'm addressing listeners

questions in a way that's really helpful.

So the questions that I will be addressing topics are going to be items that I'm being

asked over and over and over again.

I hope you enjoy this series.

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And as you know, you can always send

your questions to support at cynthia thurlow.com. I appreciate each and every listener.

Welcome to the latest midlife minute. This one is going to be sleep focused because I've received

30 questions on sleep,

and I thought I would just do a deep dive into sleep. So let's talk about sleep statistics to kind of

scope this all out. Sleep disorders are actually on the rise, including prevalence of narcolepsy,

which is about 14 percent or even idiopathic hypersomnia.

Those are people that, for no apparent reason, are sleeping a lot.

REM sleep behavior disorder makes up about 64%.

And in a national health interview survey between 2004 and 2007, it provided national representative data for 110,000 non-institutionalized

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