Welcome to the Brain Health and Beyond podcast with your hosts, Aisha and Dean Sharesai.

This episode is dedicated to sleep and sleep disorders and how they affect brain health.

We now know that a good night's restorative sleep is crucial for proper functioning of the

brain, whether it's cognition, concentration, productivity, or peak performance.

Unfortunately, until recently, it was not deemed important and kind of brushed aside.

But not anymore.

Thanks to recent advances in the field, we have realized the tremendous importance of sleep

for brain health and health in general.

To discuss this, our guest in this episode is an incredibly experienced sleep

specialist, our friend Dr. Noah Siegel. He's the director of sleep medicine and surgery at

Massachusetts eye and ear, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital in Boston. He's board certified

in both sleep medicine and otolaryngology, head and neck

surgery, and is a clinical faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital. His approach is very unique,

as he doesn't focus on disease only and recognizes the tremendous role of lifestyle and prevention

in treating one of the biggest

health issues in western countries, sleep disorders. This episode is definitely one of our favorites,

and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Dr. Noah Segal, thank you so much for joining us.

I am so excited to speak with you here

about such an incredibly important topic. You know, one of the things that we get questions

about is sleep and sleep apnea, and we are so fortunate to have this opportunity to speak

with you and explore this incredibly important aspect of health in general,

but specifically brain help.

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