Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And some people are very sensitive.

So the coffee you had at four o'clock may affect your ability to sleep at night.

It's important to keep the bedroom for three things.

You have to sleep, read, and sex.

Nothing else.

Don't take the treadmill to your bedroom.

Don't make your bedroom your office.

Keep your bedroom as a serene, quiet place.

Make sure the mattress is comfortable.

Make sure the room is dark.

All the curtains are really good about keeping the room dark.

These are simple interventions that can really help people sleep well.

So if you have sleep problems,

Talk to your doctor or if you have access to a sleep specialist, see a sleep specialist.

This is a fixable problem.

You can't just have poor sleep on a regular basis for a long time because that shrinks the brain by a lot.

Let me give you one study.

They looked at people who have been sleeping fewer than six hours a night.

Some people had only like one or two years of not sleeping enough.

Other people had 20, 25 years of sleeping fewer than six hours a night.