EP 1121B - The Sleep Prescription: 7 Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest

Summary: We need sleep to survive. Sleep is as essential as food, water, and oxygen. So how can something that should be so instinctual and automatic be so hard?
Air Date: 11/8/22
Duration: 22:08
Host: Michael Roizen, MD
Guest Bio: Aric A. Prather, Ph.D.
Aric A. Prather, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, where he co-directs the Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center. A licensed clinical psychologist, he has helped hundreds of patients improve their sleep using cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia.
EP 1121B - The Sleep Prescription: 7 Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest
We need sleep to survive. Sleep is as essential as food, water, and oxygen. So how can something that should be so instinctual and automatic be so hard? 

Dr. Aric Prather is a world-renowned sleep scientist and an expert clinician who has cracked the code to help even the most restless of sleepers get a good night’s rest. He is a sleep psychologist at the UCSF insomnia clinic, where he uses empirically validated behavioral treatments to promote long-lasting restorative sleep.

In his new book The Sleep Prescription: 7 Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest,  he shares the novel strategies that have helped hundreds upon hundreds of sleep-deprived patients get their lives back by getting their sleep back on track.

Over the course of seven days, The Sleep Prescription will teach you how to get out of your own way, so that your body can do effortlessly what it was built to do: sleep well.
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