Dr. Matt Walker

But I think the potential upside of it, not just for sleep, but for a number of different psychiatric conditions like anxiety, could be beneficial.

So I would say that that's right now the sort of the skinny on THC and CBD.

Yeah, and I would only say that try to resist if you can.

If you really want your bedroom to be the place where you now become consistently asleep, try not to start sleeping in some other location consistently because then all of a sudden you bond that with good sleep and you...

unbuckle this notion that we're trying to relearn, which is, no, your bedroom is the place of sleep.

So it's fine to go elsewhere.

Try to stay awake and force yourself to stay awake until you are absolutely sleepy, then go back to bed.

Yeah, do the Huberman taper is what I'm going to call it right now, which is not an interpretive dance.

It's simply the caffeine taper.

And I think CBD, you know...

has promise and research must try harder, including my own.

That's right.

I would always say that I'm not trained to be a medical doctor.

Any advice that I give is simply scientifically descriptive advice.

It's not medically prescriptive nor lifestyle prescriptive advice.

So I think many people may have heard of some of the conventional, but what about the unconventional?

I would probably offer five or six.

the first one i would say is that if you are struggling with sleep and you have had a bad night of sleep the first recommendation is do nothing and what i mean by that is if you've had a bad night of sleep you're awake for three hours do not sleep in any later into the morning do not go to bed any earlier

Do not increase your caffeine intake to try to offset it and do not nap during the day.

Why am I telling you those things?