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Hey everyone. Today I speak with Dr. Zach couples, and we go further into detail regarding how

can we personalize some of the available

tools in sleep medicine to your system and really try to lay out a hierarchy of intervention

so that you are moving through the various supports to improve your sleep health in the most logical order.

And really we zoomed in in the spectrum of once people have their diet, lifestyle, and gut health

items in order, but they may still be suffering with certain hallmark symptoms that could indicate

a problem with sleep, like fatigue, brain fog, or kind of impairment, chronic pain or aches,

and also heart disease, either risk or prevention, with potentially also issues of mood problems. How do you then proceed through

applying these various therapies? We go into the home tests, which are inexpensive and readily

available, namely the watchpad one, and into a bit more detail regarding interpretation of those results.

And then how we can look at the results in juxtaposition to someone's symptoms and look at both of

those next to this sort of linear order of interventions so that you have the highest likelihood

of resolving your symptoms and improving your sleep

with the least invasive, least expensive measure, but you also have other potential therapies to then

escalate to.

So just one of many a conversation we've had on sleep and per the usual, the more conversations

we have, the more kind of dialed in

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