Do you struggle to get a good night of sleep? More and more research over the last couple decades has shown that bad sleep doesn’t just leave us feeling groggy -- it can leave us feeling more stressed, increase our experience of pain and lower our immunity. It can even lead to bad food choices and affect our ability to lose weight.
In this episode, sleep expert Aric Prather talks with Jennifer Netherby and Lee Thai about the key to unlocking a better night of sleep and why it really matters. (Don’t worry, you don’t have to give up TV, but you might want to pause your nightly scroll.) Prather wrote The Sleep Prescription – 7 Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest, a really fascinating and easy read all about why we need sleep and a step-by-step on how to get it. He is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at The University of California San Francisco where he treats insomnia and studies the effects of insufficient sleep.