I think sleep has certainly come a long way, particularly as many luminaries in the field

have gone from the basic mechanisms of what's going on in the brain, what circuits, and

what neurotransmitters are being released and at what times all the way up to, well, how

is sleep actually affecting us?

How does it affect or mood or decisions to what we eat during the day?

How does it affect our metabolism?

Logan Schneider is a medical doctor and board-certified clinician who specializes in the treatment

of sleep disorders.

That includes things like sleep apnea, narcolepsy, insomnia, restless leg syndrome, sleep walking,

and REM sleep behavior disorder.

He's earned awards and honors from the American Academies of Sleep Medicine and Neurology.

I sat down with Logan to get a better idea of exactly how sleep research is done and

its real impact on patients who struggle with sleep.

The nice part about being a sleep specialist is that you get to benefit from a community

of all these different types of clinicians that are interested in sleep.

I went by path of the neurology residency training, but you can come through internal medicine,

pediatrics, family medicine, anesthesiology.

Then, once you've done your primary training in residency, you then typically do a year

or maybe two years sleep in research or just sleep clinical sleep fellowship that specializes

you by learning everything there is to know really about sleep in that one year and then

go and take your examinations and get certified and then you start practicing sleep, hopefully.

I also reached out to Chris Winter.

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