You Probably Have Insomnia... Here's What to Do About It

Food, We Need To Talk

Juna Gjata

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

You probably have insomnia… and you probably don’t even know it. In this episode, we dive into one of the most relatable struggles out there: not being able to fall asleep, stay asleep, or stop stressing about sleep. We’re joined by Dr. Michelle Jonelis, a sleep medicine specialist who explains why your sleep tracker might be lying to you, why optimizing your sleep setup might backfire, and what actually works to fix your sleep (spoiler: it’s not melatonin). Dr. Jonelis breaks down the gold-standard treatment for insomnia and why so many of us are going about it the wrong way. If your brain won’t shut off at night, this one’s for you—or at least the 75% of us in the same boat.

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0:00.0	So we get a lot of emails in our inbox.
0:02.4	Yes, we love the emails from our listeners.
0:04.8	Keep sending them.
0:06.0	We also get a lot from agents pitching their clients to be on the show.
0:09.7	But to be honest, we don't allow a lot of people who are like pitching their clients on the show, you guys.
0:15.5	Because honestly, we have a very high bar for who comes on the show.
0:20.0	But I did get an email from someone recently that I was like, wait a minute, this person seems really cool.
0:27.1	Yeah, no, she seemed awesome.
0:29.6	Her name was Dr. Michelle, Joan Ellis, and she was emailing us about our episode on sleep and saying that we really need to do an episode on insomnia.
0:37.8	And I said, sure, but how many people have insomnia?
0:41.3	Right.
0:41.5	I mean, it's like a niche thing you told me.
0:43.1	Right.
0:43.4	Like, no one's going to be listening.
0:45.2	Guys, I thought it was like 5% of the population maybe.
0:47.4	No.
0:48.5	Higher, higher?
0:50.0	Apparently, as you're going to learn today's episode, apparently approximately 75% of the
0:55.7	population by some estimates have some sort of insomnia. That is insane. So this might be one of
1:02.4	our more popular episodes. I know. I know. So if you're listening to this and you're in the lucky
1:07.6	25%, I guess you don't have to listen. But you probably do know a loved one that does need to listen. So you should hear it just for their sake. And if you're in the lucky 25%, I guess you don't have to listen. But you probably do know a loved one that does need to listen,
1:12.3	so you should hear it just for their sake.
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