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Hi everyone is Kaysaysunga as you know this week is hosted by the incredible sleep expert Dr. Eric Prather and just to remind you you can get his entire sleep course,

finding your best sleep on the Head Space app right now. That's Space Studio. Hi everyone, it's Dr. Eric Prather, your resident sleep psychologist here.

I'm really excited because today I'm going to discuss something that affects all of us but is rarely talked about.

Sleep and aging.

We might avoid this topic because aging is such a scary subject in our culture,

but it's going to happen to all of us, if we're lucky.

And sleep is a huge part of how we feel, our health, and our overall

quality of life as we get older. So if we know more about it, we can develop tools to sleep

well now and in the future. Today I'll break down how our sleep patterns change as we age

and what we can do to have consistent sleep as our bodies naturally evolve.

So let's dive in.

My sleep is certainly not as robust as it was 20 years ago or even 15 years ago. Some of that

can be attributed to age, but you know honestly like a lot of things

change within the life course that also contribute to your sleep. In my late

20s early 30s I didn't have children I had different set of responsibilities but also there's

age-related change that we do see in the amount of deep sleep that we get and

how consolidated our sleep is also changes. And I see this a lot inpatients.

Say an older adult in his mid-to-late 60s is really concerned about the fact that he's waking up

throughout the night. Some of it is to use the bathroom, some of it is active thinking,

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