Welcome to Untangle. This week we're airing a few of our favorite sleep episode. If it's dark and cold where you are, cozy up and have a listen. And if you've ever felt groggy after what you thought was a good night's sleep, it might be that your deep sleep quality isn't that good.

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Today's encore guest is Chris Winter, a neurologist sleep specialist and author of the book

The Sleep Solution, Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It.

He explains why we're a culture

of poor sleepers and how we got that way and includes five things we can do to improve our

sleep right now. Spoiler alert, an attitude change might be the best tactic of all. Now, here's

Chris. Chris, it's great to have you on Untangle today. Thanks so much for

being here. Thank you so much, Patricia. I appreciate it. I want to start by asking you this question.

As a neurologist, how did you originally become so interested in sleep and the problems that we all

have with sleep? The short answer is it was was all very accidental but there's just something kind of

intoxicating about sleep that's very easy to have fun with. Well it's funny I

mean it's good news bad news right because people love to talk about sleep

because we have so many challenges with it if it were simple hey, hey, like the spleen. The spleen's a piece of cake. Yeah, exactly. You can take it out if you want to. It's not even necessary. Exactly, but you can't like not sleep. That's right. Let's talk about that person. That's an important sentence right there, you just said. Yeah, and I mean, I personally have had sleep problems forever, so I'm super excited about

getting some of this information. And I did love your book, although I'm still not sleeping

perfectly, but I'm still not doing all the things I'm supposed to be doing. So that's fair.

But why does so many of us have sleep challenges to begin with? There's a couple answers that.

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